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EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan's agency would oversee corporations’ progress toward emissions targets and climate goals.

Budget bill would task EPA to scrutinize companies’ climate goals

By Ellen Meyers
Posted August 11, 2022 at 7:00am
Rep. Gregory W. Meeks, D-N.Y., introduced corporate diversity disclosure legislation that is now part of the House's fiscal 2023 defense policy bill.

Boardrooms add diversity as Washington mulls disclosure rules

By Ellen Meyers
Posted August 4, 2022 at 7:00am
Indiana Republican Sen. Mike Braun's bill has the support of at least seven other Senate Republicans.

Retirement funds are ground zero in Senate GOP opposition to ESG

By Ellen Meyers
Posted July 28, 2022 at 7:00am
The proposals would "help shareholders exercise their rights to submit proposals for consideration by their fellow shareholders,” said SEC Chairman Gary Gensler.

SEC seeks to ease barriers for investors’ ESG proposals

By Ellen Meyers
Posted July 14, 2022 at 7:00am
Led by acting director Sandra L. Thompson, the Federal Housing Finance Agency is the only regulator found to have made considerable progress protecting vulnerable communities from the financial risk of climate change.

Investors urge regulators to protect vulnerable from climate risk

By Ellen Meyers
Posted June 30, 2022 at 6:45am
Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii is one of eight Senate Democrats urging the SEC to include a threshold for Scope 3 emissions reporting.

SEC’s climate rule heats up debate on supply chain emissions

By Ellen Meyers
Posted June 23, 2022 at 7:00am
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., led eight senators in urging the SEC to incorporate disclosures on lobbying into an eventual final rule on climate risk disclosure.

Companies face tug-of-war on lobbying agenda versus ESG values

By Ellen Meyers
Posted June 16, 2022 at 7:00am
Led by Chairman Gary Gensler, the Securities and Exchange Commission has told companies it will allow more shareholder votes on public policy issues such as the environment and worker arbitration than it did during the Trump administration.

Governance dominates corporate shareholder votes, ahead of environmental, social issues

By Ellen Meyers
Posted May 19, 2022 at 7:00am
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Whitehouse said he and his Senate colleagues are “in a good place” to finalize a set of bills to carry out some of Democrats’ climate ambitions that Republican lawmakers and moderate Democrats including Sen. Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va., will support.

Climate bill talks in ‘good place,’ Whitehouse says

By Ellen Meyers
Posted May 12, 2022 at 7:00am
Rep. Ted Budd, R-N.C., and other Republicans said in a letter to the SEC that Congress should set climate policy.

Legal debate over SEC’s authority clouds climate rule proposal

By Ellen Meyers
Posted May 5, 2022 at 7:00am