WV House Resolution Studies Divesting from Cos. that Divest Fossil Fuels

Prepare for some mental gymnastics. Limber up your brain so you can follow this story. As you know, some big pension funds and investment firms have been on a "divestment" kick, eliminating their investments in filthy fossil fuel companies (see NYC Pension Funds Vote to Divest from Fossil Fuels Within 5 Years). It's a woke, cancel culture thing. Pimple-faced Millennials raised on watching Captain Planet cartoons demand the investment companies they work for divest from oil and gas companies, equating them with cigarette manufacturers. Now the shoe may go on the other foot. West Virginia is exploring having its retirement pension fund divest from the divesters.

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