Texas Federal Judge: DOL’s ESG Investing Rule Still Survives Under Loper Bright

( February 18, 2025, 10:56 AM EST) -- AMARILLO, Texas — A Texas federal judge on Feb. 14 again upheld a 2022 U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) investment rule concerning environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, rejecting what he called a request by the plaintiff states, companies and individuals “to expand the scope of the Fifth Circuit's limited remand and interpret [Loper Bright Enters. v. Raimondo] to affect standards it does not affect.”...