Ginny Cleaveland, Deputy Press Secretary, Fossil-Free Finance, Sierra Club, ginny.cleaveland@sierraclub.org, 415-508-8498 (Pacific Time)
Washington, D.C. — On Wednesday, July 12, at 1:30pm ET at the House Triangle, the Sierra Club’s Executive Director Ben Jealous will join the Congressional Sustainable Investment Caucus for a press conference following the House Financial Services Committee hearing entitled “Protecting Investor Interests: Examining Environmental and Social Policy in Financial Regulation”.
During the press conference, members of the Congressional Sustainable Investment Caucus and House Financial Services Committee, and representatives from advocacy groups including the Sierra Club, US SIF, and the AFL-CIO will underscore the importance of preserving the free-market principles of consumer choice and investor freedom.
The press conference will be held following the first of six House Financial Services Committee hearings expected to focus on the GOP’s anti-capitalism attacks on ESG. The hearing begins at 10am ET in 2128 RHOB. See the full schedule here.
Who:
- Ranking Member Maxine Waters (D-CA)
- Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL)
- Rep. Juan Vargas (D-CA)
- Rep. Seth Magaziner (D-RI)
- Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA)
- Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH)
- Rep. Seth Magaziner (D-RI)
- Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison
- Brandon Rees, Deputy Director of the Office of Investment for the AFL-CIO
- Bryan McGannon, Managing Director US SIF
- Ben Jealous, Executive Director for the Sierra Club
What: Press conference highlighting the need to protect Americans’ freedom to invest following the first of six House Financial Services Committee hearings targeting ESG investing.
When: 1:30pm ET on Wednesday, July 12th
Where: House Triangle
Online: The event will be livestreamed by Climate Power and will also be available on Rep. Casten and Rep. Vargas’ social media channels.
RSVP: Please RSVP in advance to Jacob.Vurpillat@mail.house.gov.
More information: Also on Wednesday, the Sierra Club will join a roundtable hosted by Rep. Waters at 4pm ET in 2220 RHOB. The roundtable will discuss the importance of empowering shareholders and stakeholders to better engage companies they invest in, the importance of the SEC’s climate risk disclosure rule, the need to advance other ESG disclosures, and the importance of protecting the independence of (and promoting competition among) the proxy advisors.
Participants are Brooke Lierman, Comptroller for the State of Maryland; Professor Shiva Rajgopal of Columbia Business School; Ben Cushing, Campaign Director, Fossil-Free Finance, Sierra Club; and Bhakti Mirchandani, Managing Director, Responsible Investing, Trinity Church Wall Street.
About the Sierra Club
The Sierra Club is America’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, with millions of members and supporters. In addition to protecting every person's right to get outdoors and access the healing power of nature, the Sierra Club works to promote clean energy, safeguard the health of our communities, protect wildlife, and preserve our remaining wild places through grassroots activism, public education, lobbying, and legal action. For more information, visit www.sierraclub.org.