Treasurer Stacy Garrity and 14 Other State Treasurers Call on President Biden to Stop Attacks on Energy Companies
Harrisburg, PA - Treasurer Stacy Garrity joined 14 other state treasurers calling on President Biden and his administration to stop attempts to pressure financial institutions into divesting from coal, oil and natural gas companies.
“These companies play a critical role in the economies of many hard-working, middle-class communities across Pennsylvania and the United States. They rely on and deserve access to capital from financial institutions, just like any other law-abiding American company. The federal government should not pick and choose which companies can do business with banks based on a political agenda.”
Pennsylvania State Treasurer, Stacy Garrity
Garrity and her fellow treasurers in West Virginia, Ohio, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina and South Dakota detailed their concerns in a letter sent yesterday to John Kerry, the Presidential Special Envoy for Climate.
“As a collective, we strongly oppose command-and-control economic policies that attempt to bend the free market to the political will of government officials,” the treasurers wrote. “It is simply antithetical to our nation’s position as a democracy and a capitalist economy for the Executive Branch to bully corporations into curtailing legal activities.”
Members of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee have also called on the Biden administration to stop pressuring banks to make energy-related lending commitments.
