Last month Pleaides Strategy published a report titled “2023 STATEHOUSE REPORT: Right-Wing Attacks on the Freedom to Invest Responsibly Falter in Legislatures.” This report is...

Norway is a tiny Scandinavian country with a population of 5.5 million, less than the 7 million in my home state of Massachusetts. The country is well known for its exemplary...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has a threefold mission: (1) protecting investors, (2) facilitating capital formation, and (3) maintaining fair, orderly, and...

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has been playing a major role in the anti-ESG movement, has introduced model legislation called the “State Government...

The role of the chief sustainability officer is undergoing a rapid and dramatic transformation. Historically CSOs have acted like stealth PR executives—their primary task was to...

Over the past year, the debate over Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) standards in the United States has revealed stark policy contrasts between red and blue states. Red...

I pen this piece with trepidation but overwhelmed by inspiration. Signed Robert G. Eccles Date May 29, 2023 “Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you...

A week ago today I published my piece analyzing the opening statements of witnesses Steven T. Marshall (Alabama Attorney General), Sean D. Reyes (Utah Attorney General), and...

In my previous piece I declared how pleased I was with the little birthday surprise brought to me by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability as I turned 72. That day...

In February 2023 the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published “Discussion Paper DP23/1: Finance for positive sustainable change: governance, incentives and competence in...

Birthday The Beatles 1968 I know all of you who took the quiz in my previous piece “How Well Do You Know Your Red States?: A Quiz On ESG” are eager to get the answers so you can...

Increased politicization of “environmental, social and governance” (ESG) factors in investment has resulted in one side claiming it only promotes social and political objectives,...

Exactly how the acronym of ESG has become the topic of such heated debate will make for a good doctoral dissertation in sociology someday. It has become a term derided on both...

Life is unfair. This is what I say to people from Red states who express jealous umbrage about my recent piece “Death Of The Last Triceratops: The ESG Culture Wars In Wyoming.”...

Wyoming, the Cowboy State, is the smallest one in terms of population (580,817 people), the 10th largest in terms of land area (the first three, in order, are Alaska, Texas, and...