Norway’s Government Uses Oil Wealth to Pressure U.S. Firms

Shouldn’t Norwegians pay for their own virtue signals?

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Norway wants to pressure U.S. companies to embrace climate policies—but doesn’t want to stop drilling in the North Sea. Photo: Carina Johansen/Bloomberg News

Climate activism and hypocrisy have become nearly synonymous given the high correlation between prominent advocacy and private jet travel. Then of course there’s the bonfire of fossil fuels needed to create inefficient apparatuses to collect wind and solar energy. But this week brings a new contribution to the genre. A foreign government that got rich on oil is now using its pile of petro-money to impose costs on U.S. companies.

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