At a House Financial Services Subcommittee Oversight hearing titled "Victims of Regulatory Overreach: How the SEC’s Climate Disclosure Rule Will Harm Americans," witnesses testified on the SEC's "aggressive" regulatory agenda, describing an "onslaught of rushed rulemaking."
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SEC Director of Enforcement, Gurbir S. Grewal highlighted the challenge of ensuring that companies and investment firms make truthful ESG disclosures, and the tendency of some entities to exaggerate positive ESG activities or downplay negative ESG-related information.
House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Bill Huizenga (R-MI) asserted that the SEC overstepped its authority by "advancing a progressive climate agenda."
In a letter to SEC Chair Gary Gensler, U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) asserted that the SEC lacks the authority to finalize a rule requiring companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and other disclosures to the public.
SEC Commissioner Mark T. Uyeda argued that companies must act to maximize shareholder value and not place the interests of investors subservient to private ESG interests.