Andrew Ramonas

Missouri officials are urging a federal judge to toss a leading finance industry trade group’s challenge to state environmental, social and governance investing restrictions it says are burdensome.

The federal judge in Florida overseeing a conservative group’s lawsuit against Target’s LGBTQ+ Pride marketing is a Trump appointee and a member of the Federalist Society, which champions individual liberty and traditional values.

The SEC is distancing itself from environmental, social and governance labels for corporate disclosures, with an agency official saying Thursday the commission concentrates on “emergent risks,” instead of using the ESG tag.

House Democrats from California are urging the SEC to make their state’s corporate climate reporting rules the national standard as the agency looks to require greenhouse gas emissions disclosures.

SEC examiners are downplaying environmental, social, and governance investing as a focus when inspecting firms for compliance with agency rules after years of listing ESG as a priority.

Nasdaq can keep SEC-endorsed rules intended to expand representation of women and minorities on the boards of its listed companies, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit ruled in a conservative challenge to the regulations.

A United Development Funding shareholder has sued the beleaguered Texas-based real estate investment trust alleging it thwarted investors’ rights to nominate new board trustees after former executives were convicted of fraud.

Figuring out new SEC rules to recoup executive pay after a company makes accounting errors is, in a word, complicated. Complicated enough that it took one team of lawyers a five-hour call extending past midnight just to get to where it could explain the clawback regulations to clients.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and 25 other Democratic lawmakers urged the Biden administration to quickly finalize greenhouse gas emissions reporting requirements for businesses that are federal contractors.

Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler started out with big plans on ESG but, four years later, major regulations are unfinished and they’ll likely remain that way.