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...
On June 26, 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act (the “Act”) by a vote of 219 to 212. The Act is the first federal climate change ...
Preparing environmental disclosure for Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filings has always been a complicated task. Although most of the securities and accounting rules gove...
