Senate Republicans warn Fed against regulating climate risk

Published March 18, 2021 2:24pm ET



Senate Republicans are warning the Federal Reserve to stay out of regulating climate change financial risk, arguing assertions that fossil fuel investments are risky are “misguided.”

Efforts to regulate climate change through the financial system are a “self-fulfilling prophecy,” wrote all of the Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee, led by ranking member Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, in a letter Thursday to Fed Chairman Jerome Powell.

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