Even more recently, Texas, Oklahoma, Indiana, West Virginia all passed laws within the last year or two that deny state contracts to any company who divests fro

Even more recently, Texas, Oklahoma, Indiana, West Virginia all passed laws within the last year or two that deny state contracts to any company who divests from oil/gas. Just insanely unconstitutional and vague, and a good reminder of why there's so much astroturfing around ESG, but those laws were adopted largely verbatim from "sample" text written by oil & gas lobbyists and energy companies; https://blog.ucsusa.org/elliott-negin/how-the-american-legislative-exchange-council-turns-disinformation-into-law/ https://blog.ucsusa.org/elliott-negin/how-the-american-legis... Center for Public Integrity did a whole series on the phenomenon they called "Copy, Paste, Legislate": https://publicintegrity.org/topics/federal-politics/state-politics/copy-paste-legislate/ https://publicintegrity.org/topics/federal-politics/state-po...