West Virginia Treasurer Riley Moore has made battling ESG a top priority, and he now hopes to bring that fight to the halls of Congress.
Moore jumped into the 2024 contest this week, seeking the Republican nomination to represent the state’s 2nd District. Moore grabbed national headlines by using the power of the typically low-profile state treasurer role to work against the environmental, social, and governance push from corporations and financial institutions.
“Certainly there have been individuals and elected officials on the Hill that have talked about ESG, but I think there is not a total comprehensive understanding of how pervasive this is, how dangerous it is, and steps that need to be taken to kind of fill in some of the cracks here where the states obviously cannot,” he said.
Earlier this year, Moore announced that his state would end the use of a BlackRock investment fund. He said BlackRock has pushed companies to embrace investment strategies that hurt the fossil fuel industry while increasing investment in Chinese companies that go against U.S. interests and damage his state's manufacturing base.
Moore said the topic of ESG has generated a tremendous amount of attention among constituents in the state. Interest in the topic has particularly grown over the past year as Republican officials across the country like Moore began taking more pointed aim at it. Additionally, Moore said he hopes to push for aggressive oversight in the ESG realm more generally should be elected to serve the 2nd District.
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