The Briefing Room
General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: libertybele on October 20, 2022, 08:32:29 pm
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Six U.S. Banks Investigated for Working With U.N. to Deny Credit to Fossil-Fuel-Involved Companies
Attorneys-general from 19 states are investigating six major American banks that have signed on to the United Nations' Net-Zero Banking Alliance, pledging to achieve net-zero emissions in their lending and investment portfolios by 2050.
The banks under investigation include Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced.
“The Net-Zero Banking Alliance is a massive worldwide agreement by major banking institutions, overseen by the U.N., to starve companies engaged in fossil fuel-related activities of credit on national and international markets, said Missouri farmers, oil leasing companies, and other businesses that are vital to Missouri’s and America’s economy will be unable to get a loan because of this alliance,” said Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, who is leading the probe.
“We are leading a coalition investigating banks for ceding authority to the U.N., which will only result in the killing of American companies that don’t subscribe to the woke, climate agenda. These banks are accountable to American laws -- we don’t let international bodies set the standards for our businesses,” he said in a news release announcing the "civil investigative demands," which act as a subpoena.
Schmitt also appeared on Fox News Wednesday night, telling Laura Ingraham that while achieving a carbon-neutral portfolio by 2050 "might sound good to coastal elites...for the rest of America, this stinks to high heaven and ought to scare the bejesus out of everyone.".............
https://www.cnsnews.com/article/national/susan-jones/six-us-banks-investigated-working-un-deny-credit-fossil-fuel-involved