Wall Street’s retreat from earlier environmental pledges has been on a slow, steady glide path for months, particularly as Republicans began withering political attacks, saying the investment firms were engaging in “woke capitalism.”
(Emphasis mine.)
Conservatives have completely lost their fucking minds.
But as that Columbia prof is quoted saying in the text, nearly all of this "green" bullshit is completely cosmetic anyhow, so it's no surprise that corporations are just "removing the makeup" so to speak