Hello, I'm Celero, radio hour. My name is Tristan Justice and I'm the Western Correspondent

for the Federalist. You're joining me today as West Virginia State Treasury, rather

more treasure, how are you doing? I'm doing great. Thanks for having me on Tristan. So I wanted

to talk about this recent coalition you launched last month. You joined with 15 states to send

the letter to the baking industry, threatening to strip $600 billion in assets, state assets,

park them elsewhere, if institutions pledge to refuse investment and fossil fuels. Tell me

about this coalition. Yes, so this was something that came to my attention is I took off for

this in the beginning of this year where I had coal producers and gas producers in my state of

West Virginia come to me and say, look, we are hearing from our banks that we're going to

potentially lose access to capital, which is quite alarming for us for a big extraction industry

state, we're an energy state. So I started looking more into it and then I saw the US Senate

kind of caught on to it and it turned out there are a number of coercive measures going on and

continue to go on by John Kerry and the Biden administration putting pressure on banks to

invest from the fossil fuel industry, which is coal gas and oil. And so I put a coalition together

after talking to various energy companies and states of state treasures to put out a letter as a

warning first to say, look, if you continue to go down this path, we're likely not going to be

able to continue to do business with you. Well, we didn't get any real reaction from them or

correction in their behavior. I got a lot of foias, but no reaction. And so that was a precursor

to give them a heads up that action is coming and that's when we took action this most recent

letter that we released just a few weeks ago with this coalition of 15 states. You mentioned $600

billion. We're the vast assets under management in between all of us and going forward. If you're

going to boycott the fossil fuel industry, you are not going to be eligible for contracts with the

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