Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania sent letters to over a dozen ESG ratings firms requesting details about their ratings standards.
Sen. Pat Toomey requested detailed information of ratings standards from over a dozen ESG ratings firms.
Firms consider information not relevant under federal securities laws in applying ratings, said Toomey. Republicans on the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs plan to grill banking CEOs on ESGs Thursday.Ranking member Senator Pat Toomey queries the witness during the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Hearing to examine the President's Working Group on Financial Markets report on Stablecoins in Washington, D.C, U.S., February 15, 2022.
Ratings firms that assign environmental, social and governance ratings to companies — a multi-billion dollar endeavor — are coming under scrutiny in the Senate. Retiring Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, sent letters to over a dozen ratings firms requesting transparency in the methods used to assign ESG ratings to companies, according to a statement Wednesday.
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