4/17/2025 7:55:01 PM SEC Approves First U.S. National Securities Exchange Focused On Sustainability By Wendy Grasso The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has approved the registration of the first U.S. “green” stock exchange—Green Impact Exchange...
4/16/2025 5:16:25 PM Trump’s DEI Executive Orders Hit Another Judicial Roadblock By Wendy Grasso On Tuesday, April 15, 2025, Judge Matthew Kennelly of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted a motion for...
4/9/2025 5:13:14 PM Trump Takes Aim At State Climate Change Laws By Wendy Grasso On April 8, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order “aimed at securing America’s energy dominance by removing unlawful and...
3/31/2025 3:41:04 PM SEC Nixes Climate Disclosure Rules By Wendy Grasso On March 27, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to end its defense of the climate disclosure rules it adopted last year...
3/31/2025 1:00:18 PM Proxy Advisors, Institutional Investors Shift Diversity Policies and Mandates By David Bell Ran Ben-Tzur Amanda Rose Wendy Grasso Merritt Steele +2 more... Show less Some proxy advisors and institutional investors have made changes to their diversity policies and mandates, including the following: ISS...
3/11/2025 6:31:09 PM Judge Clarifies That Injunction Blocking Trump DEI Orders Applies to All Executive Agencies By Wendy Grasso As we previously reported, on February 3, 2025, a federal judge in Baltimore issued a preliminary injunction blocking key provisions of...
2/10/2025 2:29:46 PM California’s Climate-Related Disclosure Laws Live To Fight Another Day By Wendy Grasso On February 3, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California granted a motion to dismiss filed by the California...
2/5/2025 5:57:03 PM New York Reintroduces Climate Disclosure Bills By Wendy Grasso As in-scope companies prepare to begin publishing climate disclosures in California in 2026 (assuming these laws survive the ongoing...
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...