The bills signed by the California governor include one allocating nearly $1.5 billion to University of California campuses for climate change research.

In a letter a letter to BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, Brad Lander said he was concerned the firm's actions don't align with its stated climate commitments.

Former SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins and others are concerned about politics entering public pension funds.

The taxables are the city's first social bonds, which S&P said are aligned with the International Capital Market Association's Social Bond Principles.

Brad Lander says using municipal bonds could be one way to help move recent immigrants into mainstream society and provide a long-term economic boost to the city.

The capital finance director of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission delivered some biting remarks to states banning underwriters based on political issues.

Massachusetts Treasurer Deborah Goldberg talks about the Bay State's economic recovery, the largest ESG bond deal ever done in the municipal space and special state initiatives such as promoting diversity and inclusion and creating a Baby Bond taskforce. Chip Barnett and Thomas Nocera host. (22 minutes).

The rise of ESG investing exemplifies supply meeting demand in the free market, but some conservative leaders seem to have forgotten their Econ 101.

The firms have introduced the Municipal Bond Insights, which assesses climate and community resilience and risk for the public finance sector.

Some Texas lawmakers are pushing legislation that could ensnare muni investment banks offering company funded access to out-of-state abortions for employees.

Ben Watkins, Director of the State of Florida's Bond Division, talks with Chip Barnett about the latest news coming out of the Sunshine State and takes a look at what's happening in Reedy Creek. He discusses Florida's bonding and debt, infrastructure plans and dives into the state's ESG priorities. (30 minutes)

UBS was the only bank that underwrites municipal bonds on the list of 10 financial companies determined to be boycotting energy businesses under a Texas law aimed at protecting the state's oil and natural gas industry.

UBS was the only municipal bond underwriter included on the Texas comptroller's list of 10 financial companies determined to be boycotting energy businesses.

UBS' placement on the Texas comptroller's list of fossil fuel industry "boycotters" could jeopardize its role in a natural gas utility securitization bond sale.

Join Peter O'Neill, Director and Senior Fixed Income Portfolio Manager, at Bank of America, and Blake Lynch, Head of Business Development, IMTC, as they discuss the role of separately managed accounts in the muni market with The Bond Buyer's Lynne Funk.

Fitch is bulking up its public finance group with the addition of six municipal bond analysts for its offices in San Francisco, New York and Austin.

The debt issued through conduit Gallatin County, Montana, benefits an aerial firefighting company that went public through a SPAC weeks after the bonds sold.

A key distinction commenters raised is the difference between ESG-related credit risk disclosures and non-credit risk ESG information about the issuer or the bonds.

Due to their policies on fossil fuels, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo can't bid on state banking contracts in the Mountain State.

A proposal would prohibit fund managers at the State Board of Administration from considering ESG factors when investing the state’s money and require them to only consider maximizing returns on investment.