Cha Pornea for Business Insider
For its critics, ESG might as well be a four-letter word.
It represents woke capitalism. It propels a for-profit nanny state.
Yet for all the political haymaking over environmental, social, and governance efforts — such as Republicans throughout the country pushing anti-ESG legislation and threatening to pull state investments from companies that follow ESG principles — few companies seem to be walking away from their efforts entirely.