States BlackRock increased its spending on lobbyists by 63% in 2022 due to Republican pressure in Texas and Florida.

Lobbying expenses increased 63% in 2022 to 2.4 million dollars at the national level due to the pressure exerted by Republican politicians in Florida and Texas, who consider that BlackRock was "hostile" to the hydrocarbons industry. Florida, for its part, withdrew 2 billion dollars from BlackRock in 2022 because of the ESG, although the state pension fund…