Tennessee Sues BlackRock, Demands Transparency About Climate Activism

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For the first time, and in what may prove to be a precedent-setting case, a global asset manager is being sued for allegedly leveraging investors’ money to pursue political goals.

Tennessee’s Attorney General, Jonathan Skrmetti filed a lawsuit on Monday against BlackRock, the world’s largest fund manager with approximately $9 trillion in assets under management, charging that the firm “has been on the forefront of using aggressive strategies to push controversial environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals across the assets it manages.”

“BlackRock has admitted that promoting ESG aims—like companies’ radically reducing their carbon output—can conflict with its funds’ financial performance,” the lawsuit states. “It is thus only fair that consumers know if the hard-earned funds they invest will be leveraged to BlackRock’s ESG ends, rather than to maximizing financial returns.” In response to the suit, BlackRock stated: “We reject the attorney general’s claims and will vigorously contest any accusations that BlackRock violated Tennessee’s consumer protection laws.”

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Far Bloody Out as many times as it takes to stop the AI policy enforcers.

I believe we need two be energy sufficient (I live in TEXAS) but BlackRock funded a 42" pressurized gas pipeline through the most fragile area of the Hill Country when suitable alternate routes were less than a gain of 100 miles. I have neighbors that STILL can’t use their wells for water because of the technique used to isolate a 42" (size of kiddies pool) explosive, pressurized pipeline through a cavernous limestone aquifer. Just their equipment laying the path destroyed the “pool” of the aquifer this property had for water. I was prepared to keep them off my ranch but they were too relentless.

I pray for a suitable porcine ending to them.

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Our ‘area’ also has a wide limestone aquifer running for hundreds of miles through our local region. Our small 170 acre+ ranch draws from a 210’ well. If a person were to factor in the huge population that also draws its water from the same aquifer for countless homes, farms and small cities it makes that aquifer very significant.

I recall talking with a knowledgeable fellow about ‘hard rock’ miners several years ago, and he claimed their ‘ruthlessness’ knows no bounds.

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