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On March 27, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to end its defense of the rules requiring disclosure of climate-related risks and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. “The goal of today’s Commission action and notification to the court is to cease the Commission’s involvement in the defense of the costly and unnecessarily intrusive climate […]
As the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has seen in promulgating its Climate Disclosure Rule, you can’t please everyone. The latest twist in the legal challenges the regulation has faced came from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which offered to defend the SEC against claims from environmental groups that say the final rule doesn’t […]
A computer glitch that caused some public comments not to be received by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has resulted in the agency’s reopening the comment period for 11 proposed rulemakings and one request for comment. One of the impacted proposed rulemakings is the controversial climate-related disclosures, The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures […]
On August 26, 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced amendments to “modernize disclosures of business, legal proceedings and risk factors under Regulation S-K” for publicly traded companies. These are the first significant amendments to these disclosure requirements in more than 30 years.