ESG itself isn't new. To pick on Environment specifically, according to [0] fossil fuel divestment campaigns have been around for over a decade now.
It's also not really American politics: concern for the global environment is a global movement. Most Western democracies have significant environmental planks in the platforms of whichever party is furthest left, and/or a whole Green Party.
Anti-environmentalism exists as more of a USA political movement, although it's starting to bleed into other countries (and into the financial world).
Happy Earth Day!