{"id":32855,"date":"2024-07-12T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esgexplainer.org\/?p=32855"},"modified":"2024-08-06T20:00:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T20:00:25","slug":"how-responsible-business-rules-protect-workers-investors-and-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esgexplainer.org\/how-responsible-business-rules-protect-workers-investors-and-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"How responsible business rules protect workers, investors, and consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Image: Morriswa, via <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A new Supreme Court ruling <a href=\"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/28062024\/supreme-court-overturns-chevron-doctrine\/?utm_source=InsideClimate+News&amp;utm_campaign=b5e4f309b4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_06_29_01_00&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-b5e4f309b4-330937678\">overturning<\/a> what\u2019s known as the \u201cChevron doctrine\u201d could not only affect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jonmcgowan\/2024\/06\/30\/sec-climate-disclosure-rule-is-in-peril-with-new-supreme-court-opinion\/\">investor protections<\/a>, but worker and consumer protections as well: Overtime pay, benefits, workplace retirement plans, the minimum wage, independent contractors and employee rights to unionize are just some of the critical workplace issues for which <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2024\/06\/30\/politics\/chevron-ruling-explained-supreme-court-meaning\/index.html\">guardrails set by agencies charged with enforcing workplace laws may now be more hotly contested by companies than before<\/a>. <em>CNN<\/em>, June 30, 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Exxon\u2019s Canadian subsidiary Imperial Oil has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmog.com\/2024\/06\/27\/exxons-imperial-deletes-ceo-claim-that-ccs-is-critical-to-paris-climate-goals\/\">deleted a document from its website <\/a>claiming to investors that carbon capture and storage is \u201ccritical\u201d to achieving the \u201cclimate goals outlined in the Paris Agreement.\u201d&nbsp; That is one of at least 39 documents recently removed from the company\u2019s website after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmog.com\/2024\/06\/20\/pathways-alliance-website-scrubbed-ahead-of-new-greenwashing-law\/\">new anti-greenwashing legislation<\/a> was passed in Canada, according to a DeSmog analysis. <em>DeSmog<\/em>, June 27, 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reality Check For Regulators: A Dangerous Carbon Bubble Persists. In October 2021, the Financial Stability Oversight Council identified climate risk as a growing threat to the US financial system and stressed the necessity of mandatory disclosure to mitigate it. Three years later, comprehensive disclosure rules are still lacking. John Kostyack writes, \u201curgent action on transition risk disclosure is needed from regulators, investors, and all others concerned about climate change\u2019s impact on our economy and our future.\u201d <em>Forbes,<\/em> June 27, 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tmnf_excerpt\"><p>A new Supreme Court ruling overturning what\u2019s known as the \u201cChevron doctrine\u201d could not only affect investor protections, but worker and consumer protections as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","slim_seo":{"description":"Investing in companies more worried about the bottom line than their employees is not responsible investing."},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[60,81,102],"class_list":["post-32855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-esg","tag-esg-bills","tag-latest-on-esg"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/esgexplainer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/United_States_Supreme_Court1.jpg",1920,1080,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/esgexplainer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/United_States_Supreme_Court1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/esgexplainer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/United_States_Supreme_Court1-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/esgexplainer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/United_States_Supreme_Court1-768x432.jpg",750,422,true],"large":["https:\/\/esgexplainer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/United_States_Supreme_Court1-1024x576.jpg",750,422,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/esgexplainer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/United_States_Supreme_Court1-1536x864.jpg",1536,864,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/esgexplainer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/United_States_Supreme_Court1.jpg",1920,1080,false],"knowbase_single":["https:\/\/esgexplainer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/United_States_Supreme_Court1-790x450.jpg",790,450,true],"knowbase_blog":["https:\/\/esgexplainer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/United_States_Supreme_Court1-310x310.jpg",310,310,true],"knowbase_tabs":["https:\/\/esgexplainer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/United_States_Supreme_Court1-90x90.jpg",90,90,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Polyana","author_link":"https:\/\/esgexplainer.org\/author\/polyana\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"A new Supreme Court ruling overturning what\u2019s known as the \u201cChevron doctrine\u201d could not only affect investor protections, but worker and consumer protections as well.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esgexplainer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esgexplainer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esgexplainer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esgexplainer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esgexplainer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32855"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/esgexplainer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32868,"href":"https:\/\/esgexplainer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32855\/revisions\/32868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esgexplainer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esgexplainer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esgexplainer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esgexplainer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}