The Republican Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Working Group has released its interim report (pdf) highlighting several of the GOP’s policy priorities that conservative lawmakers say will “benefit all Americans, not just those seeking to push their far-left agenda.”
The group is led by Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.), the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee chairman, and includes eight other House GOP lawmakers. It was established by House Financial Services Committee Chair Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) in February.
Working Group members say that President Joe Biden and his administration have strategically circumvented the paucity of congressional support for ESG policy issues and are “exploiting financial regulatory agencies to impose their policy and other ESG-related priorities on the private sector,” according to the report….}