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Riley Moore: “We had coal operators coming to me saying, I'm losing access…”

Featuring: Riley Moore, Republican | U.S. House West Virginia, District 2

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Published December 4, 2024 | Video Starts at 35:32

I mean, which still persists today. ESG is still there, but we. We had to fight back against it. We had to push back against it. We had coal operators coming to me saying, I'm losing access to capital. We can't finance our stuff. No, no bank with us. We're getting debanked all over the place. And so we pushed back against it and got other states, you know, great state treasurers, patriotic people that helped stand up against this ESG movement that was destroying West Virginia. (35:32–35:38)

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Asserts that coal operators in West Virginia are losing access to capital and financing.

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“We have zero weeks in West Virginia. We have an abortion ban. It is zero weeks.”
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“We're the fifth largest energy producer in the United States, little West Virginia.”
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“The average coal miner, by the way, in West Virginia, union, union coal miners making $90,000 a year.”
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“There's only two blast furnaces in the entire country that makes tin plate steel. Only two. Now there's one, there's one left in Ohio.”
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“He [Sean O'Brien] was very vocally supportive when he met with us and other members of Congress about wanting Lori Chavez Dreamer.”
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“We banned transgender surgeries on minors in West Virginia.”
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“We got open carry, we got constitutional carry, campus carry.”
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“One of my bills, which was the parking lot [bill], so individuals could keep firearms in their vehicles at the place of work.”
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“The state has been on a really rapid rise in terms of economic growth here as of late, particularly in the manufacturing sector.”
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“Despite their efforts to destroy it in the coal industry, natural gas, we also do oil.”
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“That's because of Republican control coming back.”
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“I met with Sean O'Brien just a couple weeks ago, two, three weeks ago, as you know, as president of the Teamsters.”
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“I'm endorsed by, I think it's 15 different labor unions.”
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“The United Steelworkers do not want that acquisition to happen.”
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“Retired union workers [are not using Medicare].”
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“The government has created this incentive for the private sector [regarding health care and retirement].”
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“These unions are America first. They don't hire illegal immigrants.”
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“You can't push out the age of retirement [for labor workers].”
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“People die on job sites. Unfortunately, that happens.”
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“BlackRock and a lot of these other asset managers and massive financial institutions, banks had put in a prohibition and basically boycotted…”
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“I divested our tax dollars out of BlackRock and then also created which I was the first elected official in the country to do that.”
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“We created the restricted financial institution list.”
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“If you are boycotting the fossil fuel industry you will lose your ability because to bid on any financial service contract with the state of…”
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“I'm proud to say that we've had, I think it's 12 states follow our lead, joined our coalition to divest from BlackRock.”
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“We've had another eight states pass legislation just like we did with a restricted financial institution list throughout the country.”
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“This ESG scheme that they had out here that was destroying us was. I mean, which still persists today.”
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“On the Jumpstart program, it's a really novel concept, only exists in West Virginia.”
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“You can put, as you put money into the account, you can write it off your income taxes up to $25,000.”
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“My colleagues elected me into the leadership slot. So I am on the elk, as they call it, the Elected Leadership Committee.”
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“Our agenda is President Trump's agenda.”
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“Apparently staff can sue you now before they weren't able to [sue a member of Congress].”
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“President Trump's got the mandate and President Trump's got the vision.”
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“I want the most favored nation status of China repealed.”
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