Tag: ESG

House Oversight Subcommittee Hearing on ESG and Its Impact

June 6, 2023
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The House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs holds a hearing on ESG Part II: The Cascading Impacts of ESG Compliance at 2:00 p.m. ET on June 6. Mandy Gunasekara, director of Center for Energy & Conservation, Independent Women’s Forum; Jason Isaac, director of Life: Powered, Texas Public Policy Foundation; Stephen…

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[LIVE at 10:00 AM ET]: States Join Forces to Sue Biden Admin Over Border; Target Gets Downgraded

June 2, 2023
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Attorney Generals in 18 states are joining together in a lawsuit against the Biden administration over the border crisis. This takes place as even many Democrat majority states, including California and New York, say they’re reaching a breaking point from mass illegal immigration. Meanwhile, the conservative protests against woke companies is taking its toll. The…

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[LIVE NOW]: States Join Forces to Sue Biden Admin Over Border; Target Gets Downgraded | Live With Josh

June 2, 2023
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Attorney Generals in 18 states are joining together in a lawsuit against the Biden administration over the border crisis. This takes place as even many Democrat majority states, including California and New York, say they’re reaching a breaking point from mass illegal immigration. Meanwhile, the conservative protests against woke companies is taking its toll. The…

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States Join Forces to Sue Biden Admin Over Border; Target Gets Downgraded | Live With Josh

June 2, 2023
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Attorney Generals in 18 states are joining together in a lawsuit against the Biden administration over the border crisis. This takes place as even many Democrat majority states, including California and New York, say they’re reaching a breaking point from mass illegal immigration. Meanwhile, the conservative protests against woke companies is taking its toll. The…

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State Pension Funds Defy Anti-ESG Laws When Voting Their Shares, Watchdog Charges

June 1, 2023
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Conservative states working to keep state funds out of the environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) movement are finding that, when it comes to state fund managers, you can lead them to water but can’t always make them drink. Despite recent laws in states like Florida and Ohio banning the use of municipal dollars for…

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Anti-ESG Arguments Sway Some at Environmental Conference

June 1, 2023
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The general consensus at The Economist’s “Sustainability Week” meeting in Washington wasn’t hard to miss: environmental problems pose an existential threat that the market and the government can partner to thwart. That perspective, which can be heard in elite technocratic circles from New York City to Brussels, came across strongly in one early question from…

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ESG Advocates Say Anti-ESG Movement Creating ‘Concerns and Challenges’

May 30, 2023
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It’s counterstrike time: the Republican-led movement against environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) investing came under fire at a major environmental conference on May 30. “I don’t think there’s any chance that the anti-ESG movement will win,” said Witold Henisz, a vice dean and faculty director of the ESG Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania’s…

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Woke Vocabulary Phrases and Terms That Should Be Debunked

May 26, 2023
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Commentary The woke apparatus has created an entire arbitrary language structure that is built upon a shifting foundation of sand. Let us count the ways at how this partial list of convoluted terms ought to be debunked. First, wokesters utilize “critical race theory” (CRT) to infiltrate our key institutions. CRT evolved out of the Marxist Frankfurt…

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State Treasurers Demand Answers on How Asset Managers Vote Their Pension Shares

May 23, 2023
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Amid claims of “a historic breach of fiduciary duty,” by some of Wall Street’s top firms, state treasurers issued a letter last week to 20 of America’s largest asset managers, demanding an accounting of how they have voted the state employees’ corporate shares that they control. In a May 15 Wall Street Journal op-ed, the…

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Court Rules That California Race Law Is ‘Unconstitutional on Its Face’

May 20, 2023
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In a landmark decision on May 17, a California district court blocked a state law mandating racial quotas on corporate boards as it violated the U.S. Constitution. The California law, AB979, required that a minimum number of people from “designated racial, ethnic, and LGBTQ backgrounds” have a seat on corporate boards. But the court ruling…

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