House Republicans Issue Anti-ESG Priorities for 118th Congress

House Republicans identified eight key areas of environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies it will focus on for the rest of the 118th Congress.

The priorities range from reforming the shareholder-voting process and increasing oversight of large asset managers, to more closely supervising the Securities and Exchange Commission as it develops climate-change disclosure rules.

The report, the first from a group of House lawmakers that make up the ESG Working Group, lays out ways President Joe Biden’s administration has used ESG in his tenure and how it will focus its efforts for the next ...