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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 01/07/2025

These bills are deeply unpopular, but thanks to aggressive lobbying, some passed this session. Learn more: ⤵️ buff.ly/hTKPxFU

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 01/07/2025

Debanking bills were the most prevalent “anti-ESG” bill in 2025 (20+ introduced). Proponents twist civil rights language to push banks to provide services to gun manufacturers, fossil fuel corporations, and Christian nationalist groups—despite the financial and reputation risks.

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 01/07/2025

Something you might have missed in our 2025 Statehouse Report: Fossil fuel lobbyists now work hand in hand with right-wing extremists to force businesses to work with risky industries using controversial “debanking” bills. Let’s unpack that 💼

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 01/07/2025

Read the full report: buff.ly/hTKPxFU

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 01/07/2025

What the clean energy movement needs *now* is action from realistic state lawmakers and executives who are ready and willing to protect businesses aiming to honestly face the climate crisis and embrace clean energy.

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 01/07/2025

Anti-ESG started with efforts to restrict pension funds and public investors. Now, the groups behind anti-ESG are framing fossil fuel companies with civil rights language as “discriminated against" in the free market (despite being outcompeted by clean energy at every turn).

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 01/07/2025

Anti-ESG is still here, and anti-climate legislators are eager to undermine the clean energy transition that’s well underway — jobs, profits, and free markets be damned. Protecting fossil fuels has always been the goal of anti-ESG legislation.

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 01/07/2025

See the report: buff.ly/hTKPxFU

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 01/07/2025

The upshot: a huge opportunity for leadership. Clean energy is winning. The report calls on the private sector and lawmakers in blue states not to abandon climate action, even in the face of attacks and setbacks. And the people paying for climate change will stand with them.

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 01/07/2025

From Pleiades founder and report author Frances Sawyer: “Right-wing extremists, backed by the fossil fuel sector, have succeeded in undermining responsible climate investment policy in several states across the country under the framework of ‘anti-ESG’ legislation.”

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 01/07/2025

Our 2025 Statehouse Report is here, mapping how "anti-ESG" forces have escalated attacks on climate risk management under a fossil fuel-friendly administration. From the 106 bills introduced, it’s clear these grps are throwing their full weight behind protecting fossil fuels.

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 01/07/2025

Bottom line: Anti-ESG bills are still unpopular and expensive for investors, pensions, municipalities, and taxpayers, all while seriously undermining efforts in the public and private sectors to face climate risk head-on. Read the full report here ⬇️ static1.squarespace.com/static/60c10...

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 01/07/2025

Like in previous years, even the bills that didn’t pass resulted in a chilling effect (“greenhushing”) reinforced by climate-hostile politicians, impairing corporate decisionmaking at the worst possible time.

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 01/07/2025

Some tactics this year: ➡️Hijacking civil rights language ➡️Going after proxy advisors with threats of fines/lawsuits ➡️Protecting fossil fuels, Big Ag, & gun manufacturers And more…

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 01/07/2025

📣Proud to announce the release of Pleiades Strategy’s 2025 Statehouse Report recapping the 106 "anti-ESG" bills introduced and 10 passed in state legislatures this year. The takeaway: Anti-ESG actors are emboldened and evolving, chilling the climate action landscape 🧵

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 15/05/2025

2. Meanwhile (as we predicted in our 2025 State Policy Outlook) the anti-ESG crowd is pretending they’re on the side of small farmers. But don’t be fooled. So-called farm-friendly bills are boons for Big Ag, not for farmers. drive.google.com/file/d/1m1Sk...

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 15/05/2025

1. The backlash is growing. OK lawmakers want to amend their own ESG law after it cost municipalities $180M in borrowing costs. AR added cost-savings loopholes. More proof that anti-ESG laws are costly, unpopular, and getting harder to defend.

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 15/05/2025

🏛️With just weeks left in state legislative sessions, 103 anti-ESG bills are still moving in 31 states. Only 5 have become law. Here are the major themes we’re tracking:

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 14/05/2025

🔗https://www.americanprogress.org/article/inside-trumps-plan-to-sell-out-americas-public-lands-to-mining/

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 14/05/2025

Here’s the thing: We *do* need minerals for the clean energy transition, but not like this. As @americanprogress.bsky.social puts it, we must do it with “ intentional protection of communities and the environment, rather than brazen development on some of the nation’s greatest natural assets.”

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 14/05/2025

This isn’t about energy security. It’s a giveaway to foreign-owned mining companies. In April, Trump opened parts of the Mojave Desert to exploration—despite no evidence of viable rare earth deposits. Now he wants to do it everywhere.

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 14/05/2025

🚨 Trump’s new executive order calls for a coast-to-coast mining spree on U.S. public lands. His goal? Extract “critical” minerals for tech and energy—no matter the cost to our public lands or our communities.

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 13/05/2025

“How can the public meaningfully engage…without any insight into what’s coming?” asks SELC’s Bob Sherrier. Great question. GA’s energy future shouldn’t be decided in secret. 🔗https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/utilities/georgia-power-plan-gas-expansion

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 13/05/2025

And the plan doesn’t just put decarbonization at risk—it ignores real clean energy successes. Per GA Senator Warnock, the IRA has already brought 42K+ jobs and $52B in investment to GA. Why stall that momentum?

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 13/05/2025

The secretive IFP process means Georgia Power’s plans get pushed through with minimal public input, via a PSC that’s cozy with industry.

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 13/05/2025

🚩Georgia Power’s new Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) is raising red flags. It expands fossil fuel production, and doesn’t explain how to get the 9.5 GW in new capacity it calls for.

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 12/05/2025

So far, states aren’t backing down – no matter how far Trump is willing to go to put polluters over people. 🔗 www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/c...

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 12/05/2025

Columbia Law’s Michael Gerrard: “It’s an intimidation tactic, and it’s telling the fossil fuel companies how much Trump loves them.” www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news...

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 12/05/2025

Legal experts are calling it “highly unusual.” The DOJ isn’t just opposing climate action, it’s behaving like the polluters’ in-house counsel. Meanwhile, Trump’s EPA is working to undo the science underpinning the Clean Air Act itself.

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 12/05/2025

Trump’s DOJ is suing New York, Vermont, Michigan and Hawaii for daring to pass climate accountability laws. It’s a direct attack on states protecting their residents from climate risk. And a gift to fossil fuel companies.

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 12/05/2025

The choice is clear: protect the economy, or leave it exposed. 🔗 www.esgtoday.com/boe-raises-c...

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 12/05/2025

And that’s not all: The BoE is especially calling out insurers for “operating in the dark,” without the data needed to measure and monitor their exposure to climate-related risks.

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 12/05/2025

BoE’s David Bailey: “Effective risk management... will help create a more resilient financial system that can withstand the increase in the frequency and severity of climate events.”

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 12/05/2025

The Bank of England is raising the bar on climate risk oversight, requiring banks and insurers to set clear risk metrics and prove they’re prepared for worsening climate shocks. This is what real climate leadership looks like.

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 09/05/2025

“There’s the possibility for creating something even superior to what you had before,” says Climate Resolve's Jonathan Parfrey. Let’s not rebuild the past—let’s build better: 🔗 buff.ly/Zat3sLQ

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 09/05/2025

All-electric homes can save $3K–$10K vs. mixed-fuel ones and are more resilient in a warming world. No gas hookups = quicker construction, lower costs, and no risk of stranded fossil infrastructure. 🔌💸

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 09/05/2025

⚡🏠The key to a safer, faster rebuild in L.A.? Electrification. A new report from UC Berkeley's Center for Law, Energy & the Environment @cleeberkeley undercuts claims from officials waiving all-electric rules, finding that going all-electric isn’t just safer, it's faster and cheaper too.

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 08/05/2025

No zip code is being spared. Millions are being priced out of coverage as climate risks grow. 🔍 See how your community is impacted: www.citizen.org/news/interac...

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 08/05/2025

Skyrocketing home insurance premiums and cancellations are turning climate risk into an insurance emergency, everywhere. A new tool from @RevolvingDoorDC & @Public_Citizen maps the crisis by ZIP code, showing just how widespread the damage really is.

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 08/05/2025

Lander: “Strengthen your net zero plans consistent with your fiduciary duty — or we will find new asset managers who will.” 👏 🔗https://www.esgdive.com/news/nyc-pension-funds-to-drop-asset-managers-lacking-solid-net-zero-plans-comptroller-brad-lander/746298/

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 08/05/2025

📣NYC Comptroller Brad Lander is putting Wall Street on notice, again. He’s demanding asset managers handling the city’s $284B in pension funds submit net-zero transition plans (scope 3 inclusive), or risk losing their business. Plans are due by the end of June.⌛

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 07/05/2025

Professor Justin Mankin, the study’s senior author: “We argue that the scientific case for climate liability is closed, even if the future of these cases remains an open question.” 🔗 home.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/04...

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 07/05/2025

The study uses emissions data and a “but for” model to show the damages wouldn’t have occurred without these companies’ pollution, a critical causal link for existing and proposed “polluters pay” legislation in states like NY.

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 07/05/2025

A new Dartmouth study found that just *21 fossil fuel companies* are responsible for $28 trillion in global heat-related economic losses – and that doesn’t even include extreme weather or climate disasters. 🔥 🌎

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 07/05/2025

And that’s not all: nearby Black communities are being targeted with misinformation claiming that the turbines are “protecting the air.” 🔗 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 07/05/2025

These turbines pump out massive amounts of toxic emissions, and despite satellite images proving the pollution, Mayor Paul Young is joining Musk in his “deny, deflect, and downplay” playbook.

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 07/05/2025

🫢Elon Musk’s xAI data center in Memphis has quietly become the region’s biggest polluter with its 30+ methane gas turbines operating *without permits* to power its supercomputer.

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 07/05/2025

The system of picking winners and losers, fast-tracking FEMA aid to GOP-led states while delaying others, is catastrophic. During peak hurricane and tornado season, it will cost lives. 🔗https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/22/politics/fema-money-slowed-trump/index.html

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Pleiades Strategy @pleiadesstrategy.com · 07/05/2025

The administration also wants to eliminate FEMA and replace it with block grants that leave states stranded. NOAA and the National Weather Service face deep cuts, eliminating local forecasting and warning tools like weather balloons.

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