8/14/2025 6:44:54 PM Court Denies Preliminary Injunction to Enjoin California’s Climate Disclosure Laws By Wendy Grasso On Wednesday, August 13, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California issued an order denying plaintiffs’ motion...
8/11/2025 1:56:40 PM CARB Announces Second Virtual Public Workshop on California’s Climate Disclosure Rules By Wendy Grasso The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced last week that it will hold its second virtual public workshop to support the...
7/29/2025 3:07:07 PM Sustainability Reporting is Down in 2025, but Companies Appear to be Staying the Course By Wendy Grasso The Conference Board recently reported that the number of Russell 3000 companies issuing sustainability reports in the first half of 2025...
7/29/2025 2:12:22 PM ISS Files Suit Against Texas SB 2337 By Wendy Grasso Glass, Lewis & Co. (Glass Lewis) filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas on July 24, 2025, seeking...
7/24/2025 9:26:27 PM SEC Climate Rule Saga Continues By Wendy Grasso The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) controversial climate disclosure rules have been essentially dead since last March, when...
7/21/2025 2:00:02 PM Important State Law Developments By David Bell Ran Ben-Tzur Amanda Rose Wendy Grasso +1 more... Show less Companies doing business in Texas and California should be aware of the following state law developments, which could affect them. Texas...
7/14/2025 8:55:48 PM CARB Releases FAQs on California’s Corporate Greenhouse Gas Reporting and Climate-Related Financial Risk Disclosure Programs By Wendy Grasso On July 9, 2025, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released a set of Frequently Asked Questions regarding California’s Climate...
6/13/2025 6:42:19 PM From AI to IP: What’s Shaping Biotech in 2025? By Rob Freedman Jon McMichael Chen Chen As BIO 2025 approaches in Boston, eight pivotal trends are emerging at the intersection of science, business, IP, and regulation:...
6/13/2025 4:08:50 PM New York Passes on Mandatory Sustainability Reporting By Wendy Grasso New York has failed to adopt climate reporting requirements in the 2025 legislative session, according to Forbes. The New York State...
6/2/2025 3:56:31 PM Takeaways from CARB’s Virtual Workshop Regarding California’s Corporate Climate Disclosure Rules By Wendy Grasso On May 29, 2025, The California Air Resources Board (CARB) held a virtual workshop to “support the development of California’s Corporate...
5/22/2025 6:28:30 PM DOJ to Use False Claims Act to Crack Down on Illegal DEI By Wendy Grasso On May 19, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a new initiative, the Civil Rights Fraud Initiative, which will utilize...
5/1/2025 9:25:51 PM Eighth Circuit Directs SEC to Reveal Plans for Climate Disclosure Rule By Wendy Grasso On April 24, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ordered that the litigation challenging the validity of the...