Last week, the State of Maine became the latest state or local government to sue the major fossil fuel companies for damages related to...

Over the past several years, there have been more than three dozen lawsuits launched against the major fossil fuel companies seeking...

On January 9, 2024, a Delaware state court judge issued his opinion on the various motions to dismiss filed in the case brought by the...

According to a recent ESG report from the Conference Board, the number of major companies issuing climate change risk factor disclosures...

Today, a state court judge in Montana issued a long-awaited ruling in which the court found that the "Plaintiffs have a fundamental...

Last month, Governor Newsom attempted to turbocharge California's efforts to combat climate change: he proposed a package of no less than...

Much of the current debate about ESG initiatives and how companies consider the impact of climate change on their operations appears to...

Today, the Supreme Court denied the writ of certiorari filed by the major oil companies in a pair of significant climate change cases. ...

As we have noted previously, a number of Republican politicians had previously identified antitrust law as a potential counter to ESG...

Last week, the Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry (R-NC), "announced the formation of a Republican...

Today, Chair Powell of the Federal Reserve delivered a speech at the Symposium of Central Bank Independence in Stockholm, Sweden, in...

On August 24, 2022, the Texas Comptroller published a list of ten financial companies (only one of which is U.S.-based) and approximately...

The New York Times has reported that the State Financial Officers Association has "push[ed] Republican state treasurers, who are mostly...

Yesterday, the state treasurer of West Virginia formally barred his state from conducting business with five major financial institutions...

On July 20, 2022 the SEC issued a press release concerning the resolution of an administrative proceeding in which the defendants...

Earlier this week, President Biden delivered a speech identifying certain executive actions he planned to undertake in order to advance...