The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:31:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png The ‘E‘ of ESG: Greenwashing Under the Spotlight – Recent Trends in the US – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 The ‘E‘ of ESG: Greenwashing Under the Spotlight – Recent Trends in the US https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/12/17/the-e-of-esg-greenwashing-under-the-spotlight-recent-trends-in-the-us/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-e-of-esg-greenwashing-under-the-spotlight-recent-trends-in-the-us https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/12/17/the-e-of-esg-greenwashing-under-the-spotlight-recent-trends-in-the-us/#respond Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:30:51 +0000 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/?p=178132?d=20251216160610EST Posted by Sam Houshower, Jennifer King, and Andres Calzada, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, on Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Editor's Note:

Sam Houshower is Counsel, Jennifer King is an Associate, and Andres Calzada is a Law Clerk at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. This post is based on their Freshfields memorandum.

Similar to the recent developments and intensifying regulatory approaches we outlined in our blog posts covering greenwashing trends in the EU and the UK, green marketing claims in the US are now subject to growing scrutiny by a range of actors, including regulators, state attorneys general, and private plaintiffs and their counsel, albeit in an increasingly patchwork manner.

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