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Recent SEC Articles
SEC Longstanding Disclosure Related to Climate Change Remains
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-02-21T17:59:48-05:00Sunday, October 2nd, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: climate change, ESG, Kaplow, SEC, Stuart Kaplow, The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors|
Whilst much of the popular media is all but obsessed with the March 21, 2022, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposed ESG Rules to Enhance and Standardize Climate-Related Disclosures that will among other matters require companies for the first time to disclose greenhouse gas emission ...
SEC Alleges BNY Mellon made ESG Misstatements and Omissions
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-08-25T06:49:08-04:00Saturday, June 25th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BNY Mellon, environmental social governance, ESG, ESG law, Kaplow, SEC, Stuart Kaplow|
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged BNY Mellon Investment Adviser, Inc. with misstatements and omissions about ESG considerations for certain mutual funds that it managed. To settle the charges, on May 23, 2022, BNY Mellon Investment Adviser agreed to pay a $1.5 million penalty. The SEC’s ...
SEC Proposes Two Rules as Cairns to Prevent Misleading ESG Claims
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-10-09T21:13:52-04:00Sunday, June 19th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental social governance, ESG, ESG law, Kaplow, SEC, Stuart Kaplow|
On October 7, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reopened the public comment periods, for 14 days from the day the notice is published in the Federal Register, for 11 of its rulemaking releases, some of them viewed as controversial including the rules discussed ...
SEC Extends Comment Period for Proposed Rules on ESG Related Disclosures
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-10-09T21:15:06-04:00Sunday, May 22nd, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, ESG law, esg legal solutions, GHG, Kaplow, scope 3 GHG, SEC|
On October 7, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reopened the public comment periods, for 14 days from the day the notice is published in the Federal Register, for 11 of its rulemaking releases, some of them viewed as controversial including the rule discussed ...
A Quick Refresher on the Science of Greenhouse Gas
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-08-25T06:50:18-04:00Saturday, May 21st, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, SB 528, scope 3 GHG, SEC, Stuart Kaplow|
With the federal government and state of Maryland each having announced within days of each other, the mandated disclosure of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, we have received, maybe not surprising, many calls in the last two weeks inquiring “what are GHGs?” and “what are Scope ...
You Should Comment on the SEC’s Transformative Proposed ESG Rule
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-08-20T18:17:56-04:00Saturday, April 23rd, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, ESG law, GHG, greenhouse gas, SEC, The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors|
Note, after this was posted, the SEC extended the public comment period on the proposed rulemaking to enhance and standardize climate related disclosures from the originally scheduled close date of May 20, 2022 until June 17, 2022. We posted some weeks ago when the U.S. ...
Rooney Rule Revised Provides ESG Opportunity
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-08-20T18:21:29-04:00Saturday, April 2nd, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental social governance, ESG, ESG law, Kaplow, Rooney Rule, SEC, Stuart Kaplow|
Last Monday the NFL announced at the owners meeting that it had approved adjustments to the Rooney Rule, first adopted in 2003, “to enhance opportunities for people of color and women for nearly all league and team jobs.” As companies, most that are far afield ...