Credit ratings, research, and risk analysis provider Moody's announced today the expansion of its ESG Issuer Profile Scores and Credit Impact Scores with publications targeting large cities and counties in the U.S. with between $500 million and $1 billion in outstanding debt. The reports include two types of ESG scores, including issuer profile scores (IPS) and credit impact scores (CIS). IPS scores measure issuer's exposure to ESG considerations that could be material to credit risk, while CIS gauges the impact those ESG considerations have on an issuer's credit rating. According to Moody's, the reports reveal that exposure to environmental credit considerations is negative or highly negative for more than 40% of the US cities, and moderately negative for almost 40% of counties.