BlackRock Gets Legal Warning Over ESG Funds From Mississippi March 28, 2024 By Saijel Kishan and Silla Brush BlackRock Inc. faces the prospect of being barred from offering securities in Mississippi after state officials accused the investment firm...
Tesla Drops Minority-Worker Language After Musk’s Rants Over Diversity Initiatives February 1, 2024 By Richard Clough Tesla Inc. removed language about minority workers and supporting employee resource groups from one of its regulatory filings after Chief...
US Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to EPA’s ‘Good Neighbor’ Air Pollution Plan January 5, 2024 By Andrew Chung The U.S. Supreme Court on late last month said it would hear a bid to block the Environmental Protection Agency...
Allianz D&O Outlook: ESG Claims ‘Here to Stay’ and AI Rapping at the Door December 14, 2023 By Chad Hemenway While everyone may be talking about potential risks associated with generative artificial intelligence, a new directors & officers report from...
Business Execs Report Growing Employer, ESG Risk Concerns: Beazley December 1, 2023 By Allen Laman According to Beazley’s Spotlight on Business Risks report, 22% of global executives reported employer risk as the top business risk...
SEC Signals It May Curb Climate Rule Ambitions November 20, 2023 By Jarrett Renshaw, Douglas Gillison and Isla Binnie U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) officials have told lobbyists and corporate executives in recent days that the agency’s long-anticipated...
Rising ‘Anti-ESG’ Sentiment in US Is Impacting Funds, HSBC Says July 11, 2023 The backlash against investing strategies that factor in environmental, social and governance issues is rising in the US and is...
US Slips in Supply-Chain Ranks After Child-Labor Violations June 20, 2023 By Frances Schwartzkopff The US has joined a list of mostly emerging-market countries where ESG supply-chain risks are “high,” after the world’s richest...
A Greenwashing Lawsuit Against Delta Aims to Set a Precedent June 13, 2023 By Kendra Pierre-Louis As tranquil instrumental music plays over gauzy images of nature, a woman’s voice-over begins. “Isn’t it a paradox,” she wonders...
Democrats on Senate Budget Committee Open Investigation Into Major Insurers June 12, 2023 Democrats on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee launched an investigation on Friday into major insurers’ “support” of new fossil fuel...