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ESG corner: Forced labor finding, AI-infused climate tech, SB 261 on hold

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Julie DiMauro

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The ESG arena continues to bring local initiatives, legal wrangling and international efforts to keep climate-related reporting and tech moving.

If you predicted an uptick in litigation and continued momentum of regulatory pressures at the state level in the ESG arena throughout 2025, you would have been spot-on.

Here are a few of the more recent developments in this arena.

Circuit court halts implementation of California’s SB 261

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