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DOL Rule Clarifies that ESG Analysis is Consistent with Fiduciary Duty. Will it Preempt State Anti-ESG Laws?

  The federal Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a final rule on Tuesday, November 22, allowing plan fiduciaries to consider climate change and other environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) characteristics when they choose investments and exercise shareholder rights, reversing a Trump-era rule that sought to constrain this type of risk […]