ExxonMobil is suing two sustainable investment firms in a bid to block them from putting forward a shareholder proposal that would commit the oil company to further curb its greenhouse-gas emissions and target its customers’ emissions, The Wall Street Journal reports.
A Baton Rouge-area politician and a sitting U.S. congressman—both Black Democrats—are at odds over new district lines that would add another majority-minority seat to the state’s U.S. House delegation.
Wary of losing Republicans’ tenuous grip on the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson threw a wrench into the Louisiana Legislature’s redistricting endeavors Tuesday.
Business and conservative interest groups that want to limit the power of federal regulators think they have a winner in the Atlantic herring and the boats that sweep the modest fish into their holds by the millions.
Opponents of workplace diversity programs are increasingly banking on a section of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to challenge equity policies as well as funding to minority-owned businesses.