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ESG — or Environmental, Social, and Governance — refers to a wide range of considerations that impact a company’s performance, both in the public markets and within its internal...

Guest Commentary: The Cal Grant program has not kept pace with the changing needs of students, while evolving into a complex patchwork of programs.

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On June 21, 2021, US financial regulators met with US President Joe Biden to discuss the US economy and update him on their efforts to address climate-related risks. According to the White House readout of the meeting, the regulators said “they were making steady progress” on implementing President Biden’s executive order on climate-related risk. The briefing follows last week’s passage of HR 1187, the Corporate Governance Imp...

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The WasteWatcher May 10, 2021 — Deborah Collier Paying taxes is a stressful process for taxpayers, especially when their circumstances change from one year to the next.  They could be employed, unemployed, married, divorced, have a child (or twins), move their home and/or business, sell assets like stock, inherit money and assets from an estate, buy or sell real estate, or be an independent contractor from one year to the next.  Given these and hundreds of other variances that could impact...

ESG lobbying surges with Democratic control of Washington Laura Weiss © Provided by Roll Call California Rep. Juan C. Vargas’ bill to require disclosure of ESG information got committee-level approval last week. About a third of the first-quarter filings that mentioned ESG reported lobbying on Vargas’ bill. More lobbyists reported raising environmental, social and governance issues with U.S. officials and lawmakers this year, with Democrats now controlling Washington, t...

House panel approves ESG, diversity bills without GOP support Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., accuses Democrats of trying to cater to the far left. Democrats say ESG, diversity data is crucial. April 21, 2021 2 MINS Bills that would require annual reporting of environmental social and governance metrics and diversity data are headed to the House floor without Republican support. The House Financial Services Committee, which has a Democratic majority, approved the ESG Disclos...

House Committee Considers Legislation Requiring Disclosure of Political Spending, ES&G Metrics and Diversity By April 20, 2021 The House Committee on Financial Services is considering legislation on a number of matters that would affect public companies.  An example of some of the matters under consideration include: A bill that would require public companies to submit quarterly reports to both the SEC and investors detailing the amount, date, and nature of the company’s expenditures fo...

Tuesday, December 29, 2020 Public companies will be required to disclose climate risks and greenhouse gas emissions under President-elect Biden’s administration. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will institute rulemaking and guidance on the federal monitoring of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. The Biden administration’s decision to require climate report disclosures follows complaints from investor advocacy groups about inconsistent disclosure pract...

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