House Judiciary Probes Climate Action 100+ Members as ESG Investigation Continues

The House Judiciary Committee sent letters to more than 130 U.S.-based companies, retirement systems and government pension funds that are members of Climate Action 100+, questioning their involvement in the group, the committee announced Tuesday.

In addition to asking for the organizations’ documents on their ESG goals, involvement in the climate coalition and communications with other member institutions, the letters inquire about the entities’ plans to incorporate Climate Action 100+’s “Phase Two” requirements announced in June 2023.

The questioning is part of the committee’s years-long probe into whether antitrust laws currently serve “to deter anticompetitive collusion to promote ESG-related goals.” In June, the committee published an interim report accusing climate groups and activists of “colluding” on decarbonization, a claim witnesses denied at a hearing the following day.

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