On January 9, 2026, the Ninth Circuit heard oral argument in the consolidated appeals challenging California’s climate ...

On January 9th, a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard oral arguments relating to the ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom included no money in his budget plan for implementation of two landmark rules requiring companies to disclose more climate information. California made history last year when it ...

November 29, 2023 - On Oct. 7, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law two watershed climate bills that will require companies with significant revenue to make climate-related ...

Business groups including the U.S. and California chambers of commerce sued the state over climate disclosure laws signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last year. A federal judge Tuesday granted California’s ...

Investors, regulators and environmental advocates are putting increasing pressure on companies, particularly publicly traded ones, to disclose and quantify climate change risks and opportunities.

Some California state legislators proudly tout strong records on environmental issues, social media regulation and workers’ rights. But they are not always putting their money where their mouths are.

Governance is the sleeper element in the ESG triumvirate; but that’s about to change with California’s new climate disclosure laws. Starting in 2026, large companies doing business in the state will ...

Major corporations from oil and gas companies to retail giants would have to disclose their direct greenhouse gas emissions as well as those that come from activities like employee business travel ...

Ken Greene, Law Offices of Kenneth Charles Greene California’s new SB 362 goes beyond APR disclosures, imposing sharp limits ...

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California's small-business lending disclosure rule — which was finalized last year and passed by the state legislature and singed into law in 2018 — was upheld in a federal court ruling Monday.