Photo: Glenn Hegar, state comptroller of Texas, at his family’s farm in Hockley, Texas, on December 5, 2022. Glenn Hegar, state comptroller of Texas, at his family’s farm in Hockley, Texas, on December 5, 2022.

Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar is stepping up his battle against so-called “sustainable investing,” telling state money managers that they haven’t done enough to cut ties with BlackRock Inc. and other financial firms that he says boycott the oil and gas industry.

Hegar sent letters late Wednesday to five Texas government-employee pension funds and an entity that manages money for the public school systems, “strongly” encouraging them to sever all relationships with companies on his office’s  divestment list, according to copies of the missives seen by Bloomberg News.

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