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RealClear Energy

SEC’s Climate Risk Disclosure Rule Would Compel Companies to Make Scientifically False and Misleading Disclosures

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 03/05/2025

In March last year, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued its climate risk disclosure rule, called “The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors.” …

Energy and Environment

Op-Eds

Op-Ed: Why states should avoid the temptation to tax unrealized gains

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 02/26/2025

Prospects for a federal wealth tax could be nil in the Trump era, but states – specifically blue states – may be tempted to take…

Financial Regulation

The Daily Economy

Federal Agencies Stack Their Courts Against You

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 02/07/2025

Winning a case against the federal government is difficult. Most federal agencies are well represented by an army of skilled attorneys. The Department of Justice…

Law and Litigation

Restoring America

Trump must cancel CFPB censorship

  • By: John Berlau, Stone Washington
  • 01/31/2025

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and tech entrepreneur Marc Andreessen dropped bombshells on the popular Joe Rogan Experience about political persecution from financial…

Tech and Telecom

National Review

Regulators Unleash a Climate-Disclosure Triple Threat to Businesses

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 12/31/2024

U.S. businesses are bracing for a new wave of mandatory climate-disclosure policies in 2025 and beyond. The Securities and Exchange Commission, European Union, and California have…

Business and Government

City Journal

Defying Administrative Tyranny

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 11/29/2024

Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law, by Neil Gorsuch and Janie Nitze (HarperCollins, 304 pp., $25.60) It’s daunting…

Deregulation

GWU Regulatory Studies Center

Political Review of Agency Adjudication and Recommendations for Reform

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 09/18/2024

Formal agency adjudication reserves the final decision-making authority to the political leadership of the agency. Many organizations and watchdogs have taken issue with how political…

Business and Government

RealClear Energy

The SEC’s Climate Disclosure Rule Is a Dark Cloud Over Energy Abundance

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 07/23/2024

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) climate disclosure rule posts real problems for public companies. The SEC’s mission is to do facilitate capital formation and…

Energy and Environment

Review-Journal

Yes, you do have the right to a jury trial

  • By: Ryan Young, Stone Washington
  • 07/18/2024

The Constitution says you have the right to a jury trial. At least in its in-house court, the Securities and Exchange Commission argued against that…

Business and Government

The Washington Examiner

The Inflation Reduction Act’s buyback tax restrains public company growth

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 07/12/2024

The Biden administration and a Democratic-controlled Congress imposed a new tax on corporate stock buybacks as part of the …

Business and Government

Inside Sources

Yes, You Do Have the Right to a Jury Trial

  • By: Ryan Young, Stone Washington
  • 07/10/2024

The Constitution says you have the right to a jury trial. At least in its in-house court, the Securities and Exchange Commission argued against that…

Law and Litigation

National Review

The SEC’s Climate-Disclosure Rule Goes against 90 Years of Restraint

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 03/01/2024

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is finalizing a mandatory climate-disclosure rule for public companies — perhaps the costliest regulatory mandate in its entire 90-year history.

Climate

National Review

Challenging the Excessive Powers of an Administrative Law Court

  • By: Ryan Young, Stone Washington
  • 12/14/2023

At least one form of government abuse might end soon. The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments this term for Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy, which …

Law and Litigation

The American Spectator

The Forces Behind ESG’s Blacklisting Effect

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 11/24/2023

Underneath the political back-and-forth over environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing, we are seeing a sinister shift in targets. What began as a campaign among…

Energy and Environment

Discourse Magazine

What America’s Recent Bank Failures Tell Us About ESG Phasing

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 11/17/2023

Financial institutions that radically phase out fossil fuel and other politically scorned investments pose a serious risk to their own business, to investors and ultimately…

Banking and Finance

Discourse Magazine

Red and Blue States Take Sides in Federal ESG Fight

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 07/28/2023

The environmental, social and governance (ESG) movement has become one of the most divisive issues among state legislators in 2023. ESG refers to a set…

Capitalism

Daily Caller

Don’t Stop At College — End Race-Based Admissions In Public Schools

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 07/01/2023

There’s an important battle brewing in our public schools between equity and treating students equally under the law. Equitable treatment of one class of students…

Deregulation

Discourse Magazine

The SEC’s Progressive Rulemaking Will Be Its Statutory Undoing

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 05/17/2023

Over the past two years, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has radically shifted priorities. It has moved from its mission of protecting investors and…

Energy and Environment

Wall Street Journal

CFPB Tries to Censor Speech on Chicago Crime

  • By: John Berlau, Stone Washington
  • 04/19/2023

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal bureaucracy with a vast jurisdiction, is testing a novel approach to crime and punishment. In a lawsuit against…

Banking and Finance

City Journal

“E” Doesn’t Stand for Environment

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 03/10/2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission is nearing a decision on a proposed rule that would require publicly traded companies to indicate how their investments affect…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

The American Spectator

What Do Americans Really Think of ‘ESG’ Investing?

  • By: Richard Morrison, Stone Washington
  • 12/22/2022

Investing to promote environmental, social, and governance (ESG) outcomes — rather than to just maximize profit — became the hot topic in finance this year…

Capitalism

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