Stop the Biden SEC’s Climate Disclosure Rule
March 25, 2024
Dear Members of Congress,
The Biden administration’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published a radical climate agenda rule that would require most public companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions in order to be listed on American stock exchanges.
The SEC is tasked with regulating securities – stocks and bonds – not maneuvering a destructive climate agenda behind the backs of Americans’ duly elected representatives in Washington. This rule is a vast overreach beyond the modest powers granted to the SEC under federal law. In fact, twenty-two states have already filed a legal challenge.
American investors are concerned with financial returns and increasing shareholder value, not advancing an ideological climate agenda that stifles American innovation through mountains of paperwork and endless red tape for the American businesses that keep our economy strong.
We request that you use all of the legislative powers at your disposal to strike down the SEC’s climate disclosure rule, including defunding the rule via the appropriations process and overturning it through the Congressional Review Act resolution effort being led by Congressman Bill Huizenga and Senator Tim Scott.
Sincerely,
Paul Teller
Executive Director, Advancing American Freedom
Derek Kreifels
Chief Executive Officer, State Financial Officers Foundation (SFOF)
Justin Danhof
Head of Corporate Governance, Strive
L. Brent Bozell III
Chairman, ForAmerica.org
Grover Norquist
President, Americans for Tax Reform
Brent Gardner
Chief Government Affairs Officer, Americans for Prosperity
Will Hild
Executive Director, Consumers’ Research
Kristen A. Ullman
President, Eagle Forum
Rick Santorum
Founder, Patriot Voices
Phil Kerpen
President, American Commitment
Saulius “Saul” Anuzis
President, American Association of Senior Citizens
Thomas H. Jones
President, American Accountability Foundation Action
Donna Jackson
Director of Membership Development, Project 21 Black Leadership Network
Paul Gessing
President, Rio Grande Foundation
James L. Martin
Founder/Chairman, 60 Plus Association
Lisa B. Nelson
CEO, ALEC Action
Bob Carlstrom
President, AMAC Action
Scott Shepard
Fellow and Free Enterprise Project Director, National Center for Public Policy Research
Hon. Michelle Bachmann
Dean, Regent University
Thomas Pyle
President, American Energy Alliance
Tim Jones
Fmr. Speaker, Missouri House, Chairman, Missouri Center-Right Coalition
Gary L. Bauer
President, American Values
Nate Dunning
Chairman, Young Conservatives of Texas
David Williams
President, Taxpayers Protection Alliance
Sal Russo
Co-Founder and Chief Strategist, Tea Party Express
Myron Ebell
Chairman, American Lands Council
Seton Motley
Founder and President, Less Government
Pete Sepp
President, National Taxpayers Union
Jameson Taylor, Ph.D.
Director of Policy & Leg. Affairs, AFA Action
Allen J. Hebert
President, American-Chinese Fellowship of Houston
Shawnna LM Bolick
Arizona State Senator
Floyd Brown
Founder, The Western Journal
Stefan J. Padfield
Deputy Director, Free Enterprise Project
Charlie Gerow
CEO, Quantum Communications, Former Vice Chairman, ACU/CPAC
Allen Roth
President, Secure America Now
Richard Morrison
Senior Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute
E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D.
President, Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation
Duvi Honig
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Orthodox Jewish Chamber Of Commerce
Gabriella Hoffman
Director, IWF Center for Energy and Conservation
Gary Marx
President, The Concord Fund
Kevin Freeman
Founder, NSIC Institute
Paul Stam
Former Speaker Pro Tem, NC House of Representatives
Nancy Schulze
Physicians for Reform
Hon. Jason A. Isaac
CEO, American Energy Institute
Daniel J. Mitchell
President, Center for Freedom and Prosperity
Brian Balfour
Senior Vice President of Research, John Locke Foundation
Paul Mueller
Senior Research Fellow, American Institute for Economic Research
Gerard Kassar
State Chairman, NYS Conservative Party
Noah Wall
Executive Vice President, State Financial Officers Foundation (SFOF)
Peter J. Thomas
Chairman, The Conservative Caucus
Jeffrey Mazzella
President, Center for Individual Freedom
Craig Rucker
President, CFACT
Christopher A. Iacovella
President and CEO, American Securities Association
Alfredo Ortiz
President, Job Creators Network
JoAnn Fleming
Executive Director, Grassroots America-We the People PAC, Texas Conservative Grassroots Coalition
Ethan Peck
Associate, National Center for Public Policy Research
Benjamin Zycher
Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Derrick Max
President and CEO, Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy
Robert Alt
President and CEO, The Buckeye Institute
Marc Marie
President, Center for Environmental Accountability
John Droz, Jr.
Physicist/ Founder, Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions