Emissions Are Not a Material Risk to Investors or Companies, SEC’s Climate Disclosure Rule Is
The Securities and Exchange Commission is at it again. Straying from its core mission of “protecting investors, maintaining fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitating capital formation,” the SEC is now taking the mantle of climate activist. Chairman Gary Gensler’s signature policy, the Climate Disclosure Rule, was just approved in a partisan 3-2 vote. Companies…
SEC approves climate-change rule forcing some public companies to disclose emissions data
Some corporations must improve their carbon footprint reporting after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved a climate change disclosure rule on Wednesday.
Voodoo economics and made-up property rights are the next frontier of ESG
A leading contender for this year’s dubious distinction, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s “Natural Asset Company” proposal, would have established a new type of corporation with the express purpose of prohibiting economic activity from occurring on federal and state lands that the government would place under the company’s control.
Backlash nixing SEC creating ‘natural asset companies’ succeeded, but some warn concept is not dead
The Bureau of Land Management is currently proposing a rule that would create a new type of lease for non-use of public lands. Critics of a related rule proposed by the SEC argue that the rules were designed to work in conjunction with one another.
SEC Scraps Proposed Natural Asset Companies Rule, Financial Freedom Alliance Claims Victory
Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) withdrew the proposed Natural Asset Company Rule, which would have created a new class of private companies that would monetize the air we breathe and the water we drink.
SEC proposal invites fraud by creating special rules for ‘Natural Asset Companies’
In August 2021, the World Economic Forum penned an article stating “valuing natural capital is key to the future of investment.”
