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With more money than ever, California’s biggest pension funds are a political battleground
Should California pension funds invest in fossil fuels? How about Tesla and Palantir? Or companies with anti-union records? Those debates are playing out at CalPERS and CalSTRS.
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According to CalMatters’s source item, With more money than ever, California’s biggest pension funds are a political battleground, Should California pension funds invest in fossil fuels? How about Tesla and Palantir? Or companies with anti-union records? Those debates are playing out at CalPERS and CalSTRS.
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The development sits in VINI’s California file for readers following state policy, regional institutions, courts, markets, public services, and California communities. The original report is linked so readers can check the source account, follow later updates, and compare new coverage against the first published record. The source item is dated 2026-05-11T12:00:00+00:00.
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- With more money than ever, California’s biggest pension funds are a political battlegroundCalMatters - 2026-05-11T12:00:00+00:00
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