United States: Climate Change

California's corporate climate disclosure litigation now turns on a question bigger than climate policy: how far a government can go in drafting corporate speech for regulated businesses.

On December 9, 2025, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) issued draft regulations for implementing California's climate disclosure laws, SB 253 (the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act) and SB 261...

The sector is in growth mode, but when assessing investment opportunities and hold periods, and negotiating contracts and pricing, sustainability-related regulatory...

On March 24, 2025, the United States Supreme Court denied a petition for writ of certiorari in Juliana v. United States (Case No. 24-645), essentially ending this youth climate case...

everal years ago, the Connecticut Attorney General sued ExxonMobil, alleging that the company had engaged in a decades-long "systematic campaign of deception" concerning the impact of its fossil fuel products on the earth's climate ...

The EU Deforestation Regulation ("EUDR") aims to reduce deforestation and forest degradation, and their corresponding impacts on climate change, by ensuring that in-scope commodities and products placed on the EU market (or exported) are deforestation-free, produced in accordance with the laws of the country of production, and covered by a due-diligence statement.

Emily Holland presented on "Emerging Views on Responsible Defense Investment" to the ABA International Law Section Business & Human Rights Subcommittee on November 12.

We recently detailed Senate Bill 254, which overhauls California's approach to wildfires.

New York Climate Week (NYCW) gave a clear signal that the climate conversation is shifting - from high-level ambition to practical action. In this podcast episode, Sustainability Partner Ben Stansfield and Graham Reeder...