Here Are the 6 Financial Institutions West Virginia Says Violate Its Fossil Fuel Anti-Boycott Law

Clock is ticking until firms are placed on blacklist from doing business with the state

BlackRock chair and CEO Laurence Fink attends a session at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2020. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images

The West Virginia State Treasurer’s Office contacted six financial institutions on June 10 regarding alleged violations of its new law aimed at stopping banks boycotting the energy sector.

Those institutions are BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, U.S. Bancorp, and Wells Fargo. The treasurer’s office provided the names on June 13 in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by The Epoch Times.