Conservatives Have a New Rallying Cry: Down With ESG

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : State bills this year would prohibit state agencies and managers of state funds from considering ESG factors in their investments, and bar state agencies from awarding contracts to companies that have ESG policies that the state views as penalizing fossil fuels, mining, firearms and other industries.
45% : "When you're not happy with how capitalism is working, you tend to call it 'woke,'" he said.
43% : Since then, it has distributed money to groups fighting some of the top conservative causes, including limits on abortion and opposition to critical race theory, according to tax records, advertisements and interviews.
40% : Their goal: Transform the acronym for environmental, social and corporate-governance investing into a rallying cry against "woke capitalism," much the way critical race theory became shorthand for broader criticisms about how race is taught in schools.

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