Public pension funds have long been outspoken advocates of environmental, social & governance (ESG) principles in investing. As quasi-public institutions uniquely sensitive to public opin...
The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) released this Monday its draft standards for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) disclosure, launching a 90-day public comment ...
Institutional investors, asset managers, financial institutions and other stakeholders are increasingly relying on third party environmental, social and governance (ESG) reports and ratin...
On April 10, 2017, Justice Neil Gorsuch assumed the seat on the U.S. Supreme Court previously held by Justice Antonin Scalia. Justice Gorsuch, who was appointed by President George W. Bus...
On March 28, 2017, President Trump signed a sweeping executive order aimed at rolling back signature portions of the Obama administration’s climate change agenda. Framed as a series of ...
Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at reversing the controversial Clean Water Rule, also known as the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) Rule, implemented under t...
On February 16, 2017, President Trump approved a joint resolution of Congress nullifying the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Surface Mining and Reclamation Enforcement’s (...
President-elect Trump has promised to undo a number of environmental policies and regulations issued by the Obama administration, to promote increased fossil fuel exploration and producti...
Ceres, an environmental nonprofit organization, released this week an SEC Sustainability Disclosure Search Tool. This tool, available here, is the next step in Ceres’s campaign for incr...
In recent years, there has been an increasing amount of attention paid to climate change, both in the media and on the part of “green groups” such as Sierra Club, and regulators in th...
