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Chris Wright: “BlackRock came out in January 2020... with a letter to all…”

Featuring: Chris Wright, Republican | Secretary of Energy | National

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I've never been shy about it. I'm one of the people at a public company, earnings calls that I speak very honestly about my views on whatever it is. But BlackRock came out in January 2020... with a letter to all public company CEOs saying that you should write your plan for a Paris aligned net zero. Every public company should write that. And look, I've been speaking about climate change and energy for more than 20 years. So to me this displayed this just crazy ignorance of both climate change and energy. (19:30–19:48)

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