Red State AGs Continue Legal Fight Against ESG Rule

State Attorneys General - Cozen O'Connor

Our attorneys work at the cutting edge of issues of critical importance to AGs, including antitrust, cybersecurity, data privacy, consumer protection, the ...

Red and Blue States Take Sides in Federal ESG Fight

Many red states have adopted measures that punish private companies and asset managers for discriminating against non-ESG investment funds.

Red State Coalition Sues to Stop ESG Rule - ASPPA

Mere days before the Labor Department's ESG regulation is set to go into effect, a coalition of 24 states has filed suit to stop it.

Attorney General James Sues World's Largest Beef Producer for ...

JBS USA has claimed that it will achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040, despite documented plans to increase production, and therefore increase its ...

Red States Ask 5th Circ. To Revive ESG Investing Rule Fight - Law360

A coalition of Republican-led states challenging the U.S. Department of Labor's rule allowing retirement advisers to consider issues such as ...

State attorneys general continue pushback against federal ESG ...

Plaintiffs led by 26 Republican attorneys general filed an appeal to request the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals reverse a district court ...

Keith Ellison: Seeing Red - The American Prospect

Minnesota's attorney general on how to fight back against conservative aggression at the state level.

Navigating ESG Politics: The US Predicament - Legal 500

The increasingly global nature of business and cross-border regulatory compliance means that companies across the world are coalescing around the Environmental ...

ESG Backlash in the U.S. and Europe: Shifting Sentiments and ...

The EU is forging ahead with climate disclosure rules, and sustainability – if not environmental, social and governance (ESG) by name – remains a top value for ...

25 red states sue Biden over 'woke' ESG rule - POLITICO Pro

CLIMATEWIRE | Twenty-five Republican-led states filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Biden administration, targeting a new Labor Department rule ...

Do Red and Blue States Walk Their Politicians' ESG Talk?

Political rhetoric around ESG lacks economic substance. Insight | opinion 28 May 2024 PDF. A stark contrast exists between the stated preferences of ...

AGO Communications - Minnesota Attorney General

Attorney General Ellison is part of the Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force of 51 bipartisan attorneys general, which investigates and takes legal ...

How the Republicans Borrowed a Bogus Antitrust Theory to Protect ...

President Reagan would have found today's Republican majority unrecognizable. Through environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) investment ...

Biden ESG rule survives challenge from 25 red states - WHNT.com

A federal judge sided with the Biden administration Thursday on an administration rule that would allow retirement advisers to include ...

Republican States Launch Lawsuit to Block New SEC Climate ...

A coalition of ten Republican states announced the launch of a lawsuit in the US federal appeals court, aimed at blocking the implementation of the US ...

BGR State & Local Perspective: The ESG Fight

Twenty-three Republican-led states have either formalized anti-ESG legislation or are beginning the debate at the committee level. On the ...

The War on 'Woke Capital' Is Backfiring - The Atlantic

Republicans want to outlaw state investment in funds they see as tainted by progressive ideology. They'll probably just get lower returns.

ESG Battlegrounds - Simpson Thacher

Anti-boycott laws restrict the ability of state entities to do business with companies that “boycott” or. “discriminate” against certain ...

Anti-ESG Legislation — Why it Matters and What States Can Do

These “anti-ESG” bills take various forms, including “boycott bills,” which aim to prohibit state governments from contracting with financial ...

Half of anti-ESG bills in red states have failed in 2023 as campaign ...

At least 165 bills and resolutions against environmental, social and governance investment criteria were introduced in 37 states between January and June 2023.