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COMPELLED CLIMATE SPEECH
Michael Cschokke*
ABSTRACT
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INTRODUCTION
On March 15, 2021, Allison Herren Lee, acting chair of the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission, announced that the agency intended
to solicit public comments on potential future regulations that would compel
registered companies to disclose certain information about environmental,
social, and governance issues.1 A year later, the SEC issued a proposed rule
that would require publicly traded companies to disclose certain information
related to their climate risk.2 Registrants would be compelled to disclose,
among other things, greenhouse-gas emissions from sources that the
Law clerk to the Hon. Danny J. Boggs, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School; B.A., Boston College. I am grateful to Elizabeth
Pollman for helpful comments on earlier drafts. Any errors are mine.
1 Press Release, Allison Herren Lee, Acting Chair, U.S. Sec. & Exch. Comm'n, A Climate for
Change: Meeting Investor Demand for Climate and ESG Information at the SEC (Mar. 15, 2021),
https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/lee-climate-change [perma.cc/B866-ZQZM].
2 See The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors, 87 Fed.
Reg. 21,334, 21,334 (proposed Apr. 11, 2022) (to be codified at 17 C.F.R. 210, 229, 232, 239, 249)
(The proposed rules would require information about a registrants climate-related risks that are
reasonably likely to have a material impact on its business, results of operations, or financial
condition.).
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