On February 16, 2017, President Trump approved a joint resolution of Congress nullifying the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Surface Mining and Reclamation Enforcement’s (...
President-elect Trump has promised to undo a number of environmental policies and regulations issued by the Obama administration, to promote increased fossil fuel exploration and producti...
This memorandum highlights key issues for companies to consider when preparing environmental disclosures for their upcoming 10-K and 20-F filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Com...
This memorandum, which updates our January 2009 and February 2010 memoranda on this topic, summarizes the key developments in the past year relating to environmental disclosure and provid...
In This Issue
EPA Delineates Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Stationary Sources
Kerry-Lieberman Climate Change Bill Unveiled
Significant Developments in Climate Change Nu...
In This Issue
New Federal Greenhouse Gas Emission Laws Begin to Take Effect January 2011
EPA Seeks Corporate Ownership Information Under Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule and Expansion of...
In January 2009, we published our memorandum, Environmental Disclosure in SEC Filings - 2009. 1 That memorandum summarized in detail the various rules, standards and case law relating to ...
The federal Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) approved today an interpretive release focusing on disclosure of climate change issues in public filings. Although the release i...
Environmental Shareholder Proposals May Now Be Harder to Exclude
AES Reaches Settlement with New York State Attorney General Regarding Climate Change Disclosure
Shareholder Activists an...
In this Issue:
EPA Announces Scope of Future Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emission Regulations
Senate Releases Draft Clean Energy Bill
EPA Requires Measurement and Reporting of GHG Emissions...
