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Corporate America has new climate rules to follow, but will they cut global warming?

The Securities and Exchange Commission is requiring publicly-traded companies to disclose information about the risks they face from climate change. Industry is expected to sue to stop the rules.
Gary Gensler, chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, testifies during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in 2023.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued rules to make companies whose shares are publicly traded in the United States account for their climate pollution and explain how they're dealing with threats from global warming.

The were the target of intense lobbying since they were , with interest groups arguing over how much information companies should have to disclose. The rules don't go as far as environmentalists had wanted. But the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups that California passed in 2023, and legal experts say it is likely

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