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.
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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.
The House Financial Services Committee considered testimony on the impact of ESG proxy proposals and recommendations to reform the shareholder proposal process.
In a letter to SEC Chair Gary Gensler, 51 Democratic lawmakers urged the SEC to finalize its proposed climate-risk disclosure rule and cautioned against "softening" and "scaling back" the proposed disclosure requirements.
In a letter to SEC Chair Gary Gensler, Republican leaders from the House Financial Services Committee and Senate Banking Committee criticized the SEC for pursuing a climate agenda "outside the scope of its mission" and requested information on the proposed climate disclosure rule.