Last month a large group of former SEC officials and academics filed an amicus brief in the Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit supporting the SEC’s authority to issue climate disclosure rules.

A coalition of 24 Republican attorneys general led by Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen sent letters August 29 to 25 of the nation’s top asset managers questioning if the managers are breaching their fiduciary duties by outsourcing voting on environmental proposals to proxy advisors.

Seven & I, the Japanese owner of 7-Eleven convenience stores, is appealing to the Japanese government to save it from a takeover by Alimentation Couche-Tard (ACT), the Canadian company that owns Circle K stores.