Plastic “pact” is harming customers – is that this a wake-up name?

By CFACT

By Craig Rucker

For years, environmental activists have been pressuring the business community to join the United Nations’ aggressive climate and energy agenda. They know full well that business leaders won’t sign up voluntarily – it would mean skyrocketing costs, onerous regulations, and marketing products that consumers simply don’t want.

Take ESG: the “environmental, social and governance criteria” that the Greens developed as a tool for enforcing compliance.

The strategy is clever and relentless. ESG advocates form “voluntary” industry groups that set their radical priorities from the start. They then push for large corporations to join these pacts – otherwise there is a risk of coordinated boycotts and damaging PR campaigns. Take the US plastics pact, for example: it is a targeted attack on the plastics, food and petroleum sectors with the express mission of triggering a “profound paradigm shift” and driving “systemic change” in the way these industries operate.

The good news? Resistance is finally forming.

A coalition of state attorneys general led by Florida AG James Uthmeier has written to environmental groups asking how their use of the compact to further their activism does not violate antitrust laws.

Uthmeier will be joined by the attorneys general from Texas, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. Read the full press release at CFACT.org.

“Radical environmental activists have neither the right nor the opportunity to suppress business operations in our market,” said Uthmeier.

Antitrust law prohibits mergers and monopolies to restrict trade. These AGs claim that this is precisely the mission that left-wing climate advocacy groups have taken on.

“We have serious concerns that this mission harms our states’ economies,” the AGs said, “results in increased costs for our states’ consumers, unreasonably restricts trade, and reduces the production and quality of goods and services.”

Institutional control and ESG are common tactics used by the left to advance policies it cannot achieve through law or regulation.

Bravo to these attorneys general for reporting such abuses.

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