WATCH LIVE 2PM: House Oversight Committee holds ESG hearing
The joint hearing will be hosted by the Subcommittee for Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs and the Subcommittee for Health Care and Financial Services. This is the second hearing on the topic.
ESG is a movement centering on compelling social change through investment and divestment. Activists, activist investors, and some major corporations have, for years, gained support for tying investment decisions to ESG considerations. ESG activists look at how investments will affect fossil fuel emissions, in particular.The topic of ESG has funneled into several partisan legislative pushes, most notably the Inflation Reduction Act. Several centrist Democrats, such as Sen.
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