On December 18, 2024, the Montana Supreme Court issued a ruling upholding a lower state court's decision that, under Montana's...

On November 19, 2024, the EU Council adopted a new regulation on ESG ratings, which “aim[s] at making rating activities in the EU more...

On December 16, 2024, the California Air Resources Board--the regulatory agency responsible for implementing California's mandatory...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is out with a new rule about how a state can go about assuming EPA's and the US Army Corps...

On December 5, 2024, the California Air Resources Board--the agency responsible for implementing California's climate disclosure...

On December 11, 2024, the Fifth Circuit, in a divided opinion following an en banc hearing, struck down the Nasdaq “show or tell”...

Last year I wrote about a shareholder lawsuit against Target premised on its alleged failure to disclose the risks around the marketing...

The day before Thanksgiving, eleven Republican state attorneys-general (representing Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,...

According to a recent report, the climate disclosure rules recently promulgated by the European Union will compel more than 3,000 U.S....

Last week, the State of Maine became the latest state or local government to sue the major fossil fuel companies for damages related to...

Three years ago, a court in the Netherlands had ruled that Shell--a multinational fossil fuel company based in the Netherlands--had the...

On November 4, the SEC's Division of Examinations issued a risk alert that identified systematic problems with funds' ESG disclosures. ...

On November 8, the SEC and an investment advisor entered into a settlement to resolve an administrative proceeding featuring allegations...

On November 5, a federal district court judge in California denied plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment in a facial challenge to...

The Consumer Product Safety Commission launched its eFiling Beta Pilot a little over a year ago. Non-pilot participants were invited to...

Sam Hess of Inside EPA and many others are writing about EPA's Halloween Trick or Treat – the publication of a draft Clean Water Act...