1/28/2025 8:12:39 PM SEC Approves Nasdaq Proposal to Remove Board Diversity Rules By Wendy Grasso The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), as expected, has approved Nasdaq's recent proposal to remove the board diversity rule from...
1/23/2025 4:14:41 PM Nasdaq Proposes Eliminating Board Diversity Disclosure Rule By Wendy Grasso Last week, Nasdaq filed a proposed rules change with the Securities and Exchange Commission to remove the board diversity rule from...
1/17/2025 8:43:36 PM Study Suggests That Investors View ESG as a Luxury Item By Wendy Grasso Stanford Business recently posted an interesting article describing the results of a three-year study conducted to analyze American...
1/17/2025 5:10:26 PM Judge Finds American Airlines Breached its Fiduciary Duty of Loyalty by Allowing Investment Manager to Prioritize ESG Goals with 401(k) Plan Assets By Wendy Grasso On January 10, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas found that American Airlines and its employee benefit...
1/16/2025 4:38:15 PM FAR Council Withdraws Proposed Greenhouse Gas Disclosure Rule By Wendy Grasso In yet another example of the United States' federal pull back on climate change disclosure laws, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory...
1/16/2025 3:22:09 PM U.S. Supreme Court Allows Honolulu's Lawsuit Against Oil and Gas Companies to Proceed in State Court By Wendy Grasso On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will not hear an appeal from certain major oil and gas companies to dismiss a lawsuit...
1/10/2025 8:24:27 PM ESG Trends to Watch in 2025 By Wendy Grasso ESG Dive posted an interesting article yesterday on trends to watch in 2025. With the upcoming change in presidential administrations,...
12/19/2024 10:31:02 PM Montana Supreme Court Sides with Youth Climate Activists By Wendy Grasso In a 6-1 ruling yesterday, Montana’s Supreme Court upheld a landmark decision finding that a 2011 state law making it illegal to consider...
12/11/2024 9:33:25 PM EY Survey Reveals Emerging 'Say-Do' Gap between Sustainability Reporting and Investing By Wendy Grasso EY just released its 2024 Institutional Investor Survey, for which it surveyed 350 investment decision-makers from institutions around...
12/6/2024 9:29:15 PM Net-Zero Alliance Investors with Over $9.5 Trillion in Assets are Urging Mandatory Scope 3 Disclosures By Wendy Grasso The Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (the Alliance), an influential coalition of pension funds and insurance companies holding a combined...
11/21/2024 7:15:38 PM ISS Analyzes Trends in Corporate Political Activity Disclosures and Related Shareholder Proposals Over the Past Decade By Wendy Grasso Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) recently reported on trends in corporate political activity disclosures and related shareholder...
11/19/2024 5:50:08 PM Accenture Report Reveals World’s Largest Companies Making Meaningful Progress Toward Net Zero, But Progress Is Not Fast Enough By Wendy Grasso Last week global professional services firm Accenture published its fourth annual Destination Net Zero report, in which it examined the...