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Meeting the Proposed SEC Climate Disclosure Requirements
California Regulation of Charitable Fundraising Platforms Part 2 - Reporting Due Diligence, Recordkeeping, and Disclosure Rules
ESG Masterclass — ESG and Impact Investing
The Justice Insiders Podcast - Human Beings: Cybersecurity's Most Fragile Attack Surface
JONES DAY TALKS®: Court Grants Stay on SEC’s Climate Disclosure Rule, but Companies Should Continue Preparations
ESG Masterclass — ESG and Politics
Ad Law Tool Kit Show – Episode 5 – Surviving an FTC Investigation
SEC’s New Cyber Rules for Publicly Traded Companies — The Consumer Finance Podcast
PLI's inSecurities Podcast - Commissioner Uyeda on “the Perils of Regulation by Theory and Hypothesis”
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What Nonprofit Leaders Need To Know About the Corporate Transparency Act
December 1st Deadline to Adopt Executive Compensation Clawback Policies — The Consumer Finance Podcast
How to Fix the Cyber Incident Reporting Mess--DHS Weighs In
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On September 10, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission or SEC) charged Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. (Keurig) for making inaccurate statements about the recyclability of its K-Cup single-use beverage pods. Without...more
As Bloomberg Law recently reported, the SEC quietly disbanded its Climate and ESG Task Force, which had been active since March 2021 and played a key role in bringing enforcement actions against misleading environmental,...more
Over the last few months, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) discretely disbanded the Climate and ESG Taskforce (“ESG Task Force”) of its Division of Enforcement. The move follows a wave of recent pushback...more
In 2023, when California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law two bills related to climate disclosure—Senate Bill 253, the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act, and SB 261, Greenhouse gases: climate-related financial...more
Much has been said about Chair Gary Gensler's aggressive rulemaking since his arrival at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in April 2021. Certainly, the number of rule proposals has increased: The SEC has proposed...more
Welcome to Horizon, DLA Piper’s regular bulletin reporting on late-breaking legislative and policy developments in ESG. Our aim is to scan the litigation, enforcement, and regulatory horizon to help inform business decisions....more
California AG Rob Bonta has filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in defense of the SEC’s climate disclosure rules (Final Rule), which requires publicly traded companies to disclose...more
On August 6, the SEC filed its much-anticipated legal brief in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals supporting its controversial Climate Rules and responding to the arguments laid out in petitioners’ consolidated petitions for...more
This is another in a series of blogs we will be posting breaking down the SEC’s new climate disclosure rules. We’re near the end of Regulation S-K Item 1502, Strategy. For the full text, see pages 852 through 855 of the...more
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
As soon as the SEC adopted final rules “to enhance and standardize climate-related disclosures by public companies and in public offerings” in March, there was a deluge of litigation—even though, in the final rules, the SEC...more
Earlier this year, the SEC issued its long-awaited regulation concerning mandatory climate disclosures. As expected, this climate disclosure rule was immediately challenged in the courts by, among others, conservative states...more
All eyes are on California as we patiently await the outcome of the numerous challenges to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Climate-Related Disclosure Rules. ...more
Welcome to Saul Ewing’s Public Companies Quarterly Update series. Our intent is to, on a quarterly basis, highlight important legal developments of which we think public companies should be aware. This edition is related to...more
Ongoing wars abroad, political division and election year uncertainty in the United States, along with continuing state, federal, and global regulatory discord on sustainability and artificial intelligence, among other...more
Governor Newsom has proposed that the implementation of California's mandatory climate disclosure laws--which apply to all companies doing business in California and earning more than $500 million in revenue--be delayed for...more
Climate change has become a top priority on the global agenda, prompting governments, businesses, and investors to take decisive action. Central to these efforts is the disclosure of sustainability risks— particularly...more
“Net zero” is a topic as hot as the climate these days. With so much regulatory attention being placed on it, companies that do not communicate their net zero efforts appropriately or, worse, intentionally make false and...more
On March 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted final climate disclosure rules (the “Final Rules”)1 to take effect as early as the beginning of the 2025 fiscal year. On April 4, 2024, the SEC...more
After a few years of proposing and adopting an unprecedented number of new rules, the Securities and Exchange Commission moderated its rule adoption activities in the second quarter of 2024. During the quarter, the SEC...more
Despite the sense of relief that many companies initially felt with the SEC’s stay of its climate disclosure rules, the pause is unlikely to temper the forces demanding climate disclosures by other means. In the latest paper...more
Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Sustainability Spotlight, your place to keep up with all the ESG action – federal and state enforcement, shareholder proposals and litigation, and state attorney general actions. ...more
On June 4, 2024, a number of Congressional Democrats (10 Senators; 28 Congressmen) sent a letter to SEC Chairman Gensler, urging that the SEC “enforce existing SEC climate disclosure-related guidance” while the legal...more
On June 25, 2024, thirty-five Republican legislators, including seventeen senators and eighteen representatives, filed an amicus brief in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the pending challenge to the SEC’s...more
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