Calif. commissioner maintains call for coal divestiture despite legal threats

摘要

Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter, along with 11 other Republicanrnattorneys general and a governor, are threatening a legal challenge againstrna California regulator who is urging insurance companies to divest from coal.rnIn a letter sent June 19 to California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones,rnthe attorneys general said they would be forced to consider legal avenues ofrnrelief if Jones pursues his Climate Risk Carbon Initiative, which urges insurancerncompanies to divest from the coal industry on the grounds that thermalrncoal investments are at risk of becoming stranded assets and compiles a riskrndatabase of insurers’ fossil fuel holdings.