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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Business
Dominic Rushe

US watchdog plans to make companies reveal greenhouse-gas emissions

Gary Gensler said the proposed rules would ‘would provide investors with consistent, comparable, and decision-useful information for making their investment decisions’.
Gary Gensler said the proposed rules would ‘would provide investors with consistent, comparable, and decision-useful information’. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

The US’s top financial watchdog proposed on Monday that publicly traded companies report information on their greenhouse-gas emissions and even those of their suppliers and consumers in one of the Biden administration’s most sweeping environmental actions to date.

The new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules faces staunch opposition from some politicians and members of the business community and will be open to public comment for at least two months before final rules are released.

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