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Australia Introduces Climate Disclosure Laws

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Companies in Australia will soon have to abide by a set of significant climate disclosures aligned with the International Sustainability Standards Board guidelines. These disclosures, which will impose significant compliance...more

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Securities Law Update - August 2024

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Welcome to the latest edition of Fenwick’s Securities Law Update. This issue contains news on...more

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Understanding OSHA’s Proposed Heat Safety Regulations

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On July 2, OSHA unveiled its proposed heat safety rule, currently awaiting official publication in the Federal Register. This rule aims to protect employees from heat-related injuries and illnesses by establishing...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

This Week’s Climate Policy Update - May 2024 #5

Good morning! This is Akin’s newsletter on climate change policy and regulatory developments, providing information on major climate policy headlines from the past week and forthcoming climate-related events and hearings...more

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SEC Voluntarily Pauses Implementation of Climate Disclosure Rules Amid Legal Challenges

Today, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) voluntarily stayed its recently issued Climate Disclosure Rules.   The SEC hopes the voluntary stay will facilitate the resolution of the current Eighth Circuit challenge...more

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MethaneSat Joins Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Constellation

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On March 4, 2024, MethaneSat, a satellite developed by a subsidiary of the Environmental Defense Fund that will locate and quantify methane emissions from oil and gas operations, was launched into orbit. According to the...more

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The Climate Report | First Quarter 2024

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted much anticipated climate-related disclosure rules....more

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Final SEC Climate Disclosure Rules Greeted with Mixed Emotions and Lawsuits: What Your Company Needs to Know

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On March 6, 2024, the SEC announced its long-awaited adoption of final rules regarding climate-related disclosures by public companies and in public offerings (the “Climate Rules”). The SEC dialed back the more prescriptive...more

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Changing Climate for Corporate Disclosures: SEC Mandates Climate Disclosures for Public Companies

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On March 6, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted (3-2) to adopt final rules entitled, The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors (the “Final Climate Rules”). The Final...more

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SEC Finalizes Climate Disclosure Rules

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The SEC has adopted the much-anticipated climate-related disclosure rules, which are more than 900 pages long, two years after they were first proposed. Although the rules will almost certainly face challenges in court that...more

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Ten States Sue to Block SEC Climate Disclosure Rule Before the Ink is Dry

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On the same day that the SEC issued its long-awaited rule on climate disclosures, ten states (West Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Alaska, Indiana, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Virginia, and Wyoming, which are all...more

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SEC Adopts Final, Comprehensive Climate Disclosure Rules

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On March 6, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted on a 3-2 vote its long-awaited, comprehensive rules for enhancing and standardizing climate-related disclosures by public companies in periodic...more

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EPA Announces Removal of Existing Natural Gas Plants from Proposed Carbon Rule

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On February 29, 2024, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a significant delay in the implementation of its proposed carbon rule for existing natural gas power plants. This decision has drawn criticism from...more

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Weather You're Ready or Not, the Long Awaited SEC Climate Disclosure Rules Are Coming

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The SEC's five commissioners on March 6, 2024, will vote on whether to adopt long-awaited public company climate disclosure rules that would require registrants to report climate-related risks and metrics. In a Feb. 28, 2024,...more

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SEC Schedules Vote on Proposed Climate Disclosures

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The Securities & Exchange Commission has announced that it will be voting on “whether to adopt rules to require registrants to provide certain climate-related information in their registration statements and annual...more

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EPA Proposes Regulations to Implement Methane Fee

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") has proposed regulations for calculating methane emissions fees required beginning this year under the Inflation Reduction Act ("IRA"). Section 136 of the Clean Air Act (added...more

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AI and the “G” in ESG

As artificial intelligence (AI) expands into virtually every industry, companies should consider AI’s potential impacts on corporate governance and internal controls. Companies should integrate AI thoughtfully to ensure...more

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SEC Rule or Not, Keep Your Eye on the Climate Change Ball

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced that its long-awaited greenhouse gas disclosure rule will be delayed yet again, most likely until April 2024. This raises an important question for compliance and...more

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Beyond the Fenceline: Environmental Justice Updates – December 2023

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Environmental Justice: 2023 Year in Review and 2024 Look-Ahead - As a concept, Environmental Justice, or EJ, has been around for more than 40 years. Beginning as a slogan at protests in Warren County, NC in 1982, EJ...more

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Maryland to Propose Building Energy Performance Standards

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The Maryland Department of the Environment ("MDE") will publish proposed rules limiting greenhouse gas ("GHG") emissions from covered buildings and requiring covered building owners to submit detailed energy performance...more

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Top 10 ESG Developments for 2023

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2023 saw terms like “ESG,” “greenwashing,” and “circular economy” come into common use. We also saw a tsunami of other environmental, social, and governance (ESG)-related developments at the international, federal, and state...more

Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto LLP

Using Whistleblower Laws to Hold Polluters Accountable

Global political and business leaders have purported ambitious climate-focused goals for the decades ahead, such as eliminating landfill waste by 2030, transitioning to 100% renewable energy use by 2035, and achieving...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Nutter Bank Report: October 2023

The federal banking agencies have jointly issued a final rule that will modify how examiners assess compliance with the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). Among other changes to the CRA regulations announced on October 24, the...more

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EPA Plant Shutdown Appeal Heats Up

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EPA is attempting to use the Clean Air Act (CAA) to immediately shut down a Louisiana manufacturer that is indisputably in compliance with the emissions limits in its state issued air permit. In its emergency request to a...more

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California's New Climate Disclosure Requirements: A Work in Progress

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In groundbreaking legislation, California continues to lead the nation in climate change regulation by enacting the bulk of the California Climate Accountability Package – an unprecedented climate disclosure mandate for...more

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