by Jeremy Webster | Sep 14, 2023 | Recent News - Will Hild
The utility monopoly has increasingly pledged its commitment to ESG, including environmental extremists’ objective of net-zero electricity generation by 2050 and net-zero methane emissions by 2030. Duke goes so far as to brag in its ESG report that it lobbied North...
by Jeremy Webster | Jul 27, 2023 | Recent News - Will Hild
Under CEO Brian Moynihan, the bank has adopted something similar to communist China’s social credit system and blacklist, under which the behavior of its citizens and companies is monitored and assigned a social credit score. In China, punishment for low scores may...
by Jeremy Webster | Apr 18, 2023 | Recent News - Will Hild
This week, Consumers’ Research, a consumer advocacy group founded in 1929, is inaugurating “Woke Alerts,” a free direct-to-consumer text service to call out corporate pandering to the far left’s ideology when it occurs. The Woke Alerts service will be backed by a...
by Editor | Dec 15, 2022 | Recent News - Will Hild
BlackRock Inc. and Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink spent the past several years championing investment strategies that focus on a now-ubiquitous and tormented acronym: ESG. As a result, the asset-management behemoth has become a leading corporate voice in the...
by Editor | Dec 7, 2022 | Recent News - Will Hild
Vanguard announced Wednesday it is pulling out of the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative, an investment-industry effort to encourage fund firms to reach net zero emission targets by 2050. The change of heart comes roughly a week after Consumers’ Research and 13...
by Editor | Dec 1, 2022 | Recent News - Will Hild
Americans are paying sky-high electricity rates and companies like Vanguard are making the problem worse. This week my organization, Consumers’ Research, joined 13 state attorneys general in a complaint against Vanguard at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission....
