{"id":411547,"date":"2025-11-04T12:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=411547"},"modified":"2025-11-04T12:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:40:11","slug":"a-g-s-plastics-pact-harms-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=411547","title":{"rendered":"A.G.s: Plastics \u201cPact\u201d harms consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Craig Rucker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For years, environmental activists have pressured the business world to embrace the UN\u2019s aggressive climate and energy agenda. They know full well that corporate leaders won\u2019t sign on voluntarily \u2014 doing so would mean skyrocketing costs, suffocating regulations, and peddling products that consumers simply don\u2019t want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enter ESG: the \u201cenvironmental, social, and governance\u201d criteria that Greens devised as a tool to coerce compliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The strategy is clever and relentless. ESG advocates form \u201cvoluntary\u201d industry groups that lock in their radical priorities from the start. Then, they lean on major corporations to join these pacts \u2014 or else face coordinated boycotts and damaging PR campaigns. Take the U.S. Plastics Pact, for instance: It\u2019s a targeted assault on the plastics, food, and petroleum sectors, with an explicit mission to trigger a \u201cprofound paradigm shift\u201d and drive \u201csystemic change\u201d in how these industries operate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The good news? Resistance is building at last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A coalition of state Attorneys General, led by Florida A.G. James Uthmeier, has written to environmental groups demanding to know how their use of the Pact to fuel their activism does not violate antitrust laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uthmeier is joined by the Attorneys General from Texas, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana. Read their full press statement at CFACT.org.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRadical environmental activists do not have the right, nor the avenue, to suppress business operations in our market,\u201d Uthmeier said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Antitrust law outlaws combinations and monopolies in restraint of trade. These A.G.s assert that is precisely the mission left-wing climate pressure groups have taken on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have grave concerns that this mission is harmful to our States\u2019 economies,\u201d the A.G.s said, \u201cresults in higher costs to our States\u2019 consumers, unreasonably restrains trade, and reduces output and quality of goods and services.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Institutional control and ESG are common tactics the Left uses to push policy it cannot achieve through law or regulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bravo to these Attorneys General for calling out such abuses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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