On October 24, 2025, a significant new lawsuit challenging California's mandatory climate disclosure regulations was filed in federal...

On October 29, 2025, the Ninth Circuit scheduled oral argument on the Chamber of Commerce's appeal of the district court decision denying...

On October 9, 2025, SEC Chairman Atkins delivered a speech in which he inveighed against “shareholder proposals focused on environmental...

Last month, an earplug maker sued a rival in federal district court in California, alleging that the competitor had engaged “[i]n a...

Following a bench trial, Judge O'Connor (N.D. Tex.) held that there had been a breach of the fiduciary duty of loyalty based upon a...

Today, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered that the legal challenge to the Biden Administration's climate disclosure regulation...

On September 10, 2025, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission withdrew guidance--promulgated by the Biden Administration in September...

On September 10, 2025, the Financial Stability Oversight Council--a cross-agency council chaired by the Secretary of the Treasury, and...

Last week, on September 2, 2025, the California Air Resources Board announced that it had “released draft guidance to assist reporting...

On August 12, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it had “closed its investigation into whether several truck and engine...

Earlier this week, Danske Bank--Denmark's largest bank--announced that it would no longer invest in over 1700 fossil fuel companies due...

On August 13, 2025, the challenge to the State of California's mandatory climate disclosure regulations was resoundingly rejected by...

Our recent post (Real Versus Robot) focused on the risks inherent in the virtual world of accidentally hiring a bot and provided some...

On August 7, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order targeting the practice of de-banking--as described in the executive order,...

The State of Florida's Attorney-General has increased the scope of his offensive against DEI and ESG initiatives.  Not only has the...

On August 6, 2025, a state court judge in South Carolina dismissed the climate change tort lawsuit filed by the City of Charleston...