13 state AGs win victory against ESG with Vanguard settlement

(The Center Square) – Marking a victory in the fight against Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), over a dozen state attorneys general secured a settlement Thursday with asset manager Vanguard – the company agreeing it will end its ESG efforts and turn over ESG-related documents.

Chief executive officer of American Energy Institute Jason Isaac told The Center Square that the settlement “is a huge win in the fight to stop the ESG and net-zero schemes being pushed by Wall Street elites and the climate cartel.”

“These ESG and net-zero policies were never about protecting the environment; they’re about controlling markets and choking off affordable energy that Americans depend on,” Isaac said.

As a part of the settlement, Vanguard will “pay $30 million in fines, turn over all documents related to their coordinated ESG activism, and end all ESG activism for years to come,” Executive director of Consumers’ Research Will Hild said on X.

Hild told The C...