On August 12, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it had “closed its investigation into whether several truck and engine...

Earlier this week, Danske Bank--Denmark's largest bank--announced that it would no longer invest in over 1700 fossil fuel companies due...

The State of Florida's Attorney-General has increased the scope of his offensive against DEI and ESG initiatives.  Not only has the...

On August 6, 2025, a state court judge in South Carolina dismissed the climate change tort lawsuit filed by the City of Charleston...

Last week, significant revisions were proposed to the European Union's ESG reporting rules, which reflect a major simplification and...

Last fall, a coalition of eleven Republication attorneys-general filed an antitrust complaint against three major asset managers,...

On July 28, 2025, the Republican Attorney-General of Florida announced that his office had “issued subpoenas to investigate whether the...

The Missouri Attorney-General, Republican Andrew Bailey, recently announced an investigation into the two principal proxy advisory firms...

Recently, Fitch Ratings issued a discussion paper that outlined a “contemplated framework for the analysis of physical climate risk for...

On May 22, 2025, the New York Court of Appeals--the highest court in New York State--unanimously upheld New York City's Local Law 97...

It has been reported that the Federal Reserve has disbanded certain internal groups that were intended to develop “institutional capacity...

Under the Biden Administration, the Department of Labor ("DOL") had issued a rule that permitted ESG factors to be considered when making...

Last week, the Trump Administration's FTC and DOJ (Antitrust Division) filed a statement of interest in support of a lawsuit filed last...

A local state court in Pennsylvania recently dismissed an array of climate tort claims brought against major fossil fuel companies by a...

On May 12, 2025, in a 5-2 decision, the Colorado Supreme Court held that the tort claims brought by local governments in Colorado against...

Earlier this month, President Trump issued an executive order that sought to target actions undertaken by individual U.S. states to...