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    US Health Department Condemns Private Equity Firms for Role in Declining Healthcare Access

    2025-02-06

    The Guardian: Private equity investment firms have been slammed for their role in the declining healthcare quality and access, as well as the rising costs for patients, in a recently released report from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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    Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners Invests in Torch Clean Energy to Build Integrated Clean Power Platform

    2025-02-06

    ESG News: Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners (MSIP) has made a strategic investment in Torch Clean Energy, a U.S.-based solar and storage developer, to expand and evolve its business model.

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    BNP Paribas Surpasses 75% of Energy Financing to Low-Carbon Energies

    2025-02-06

    ESG Today: More than three quarters of Paris-based global bank BNP Paribas’ financing of energy production in 2024 was directed to low carbon energies, according to figures released with the bank’s annual results.

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    Hedge Funds Slam ‘Enormous Burden’ of New ESG Requirements

    2025-02-06

    Yahoo Finance: Hedge funds are seizing the rising tide of opposition to European ESG rules as an opportunity to seek exemptions from some environmental, social and governance reporting requirements.

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    Norway's Wealth Fund Maintains ESG Focus Despite US Backlash

    2025-02-05

    MSN: Norway's wealth fund will continue to raise environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues with the companies it is invested in, including with Big Tech, despite a backlash against ESG, a top fund official said.

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    Why ESG Faces Backlash and Its Future Under Trump 2.0

    2025-02-04

    BNN Bloomberg: ESG. Three letters that have inspired, confused and angered. They stand for environmental, social and governance, and refer to a strategy where banks and investors weigh factors such as climate change and labor conditions in their financing decisions.

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    Investors With $6.8 Trillion Warn EU Not to Bow to ESG Backlash

    2025-02-04

    Yahoo Finance: A group of investors representing €6.6 trillion ($6.8 trillion) of assets is calling on European officials not to cave in to mounting pressure to scale back the bloc’s ESG regulations.

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    Republican Officials Urge SEC, DOL to Adopt Anti-ESG, DEI Rules

    2025-02-03

    ESG Dive: Republican finance officials from 18 states sent a letter to the acting leaders of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Labor last week, urging the agencies to adopt regulations for asset managers and retirement plan sponsors that prohibit the use of environmental, social and governance factors or diversity, equity and inclusion goals.

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    Goldman Sachs AM Seeks Up to $3 Billion for Climate Credit Fund

    2025-01-31

    Yahoo Finance: Alternative lending giant Goldman Sachs Asset Management is looking to raise as much as $3 billion for a new climate credit strategy, people with knowledge of the matter said.

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    Developments Driving the ESG, Sustainability Industry in 2025

    2025-01-31

    ESG Dive: 2025 had an eventful start, with implications looming over the year to follow. Banks and financial institutions have fled climate alliances and several major corporations are scaling back diversity, equity and inclusion commitments.

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