California Backs SEC Climate Rules Amid Similar Legal Fight (2)

California on Thursday pressed a court to save the SEC’s corporate emissions reporting regulations, as it fights a separate lawsuit challenging its own climate disclosure requirements for companies.

Democrat Rob Bonta of California was the last attorney general from 46 states to formally weigh in on nine lawsuits challenging the Securities and Exchange Commission’s March regulations that require companies to report their greenhouse gas emissions and make other climate disclosures.

Pennsylvania, New Jersey, North Carolina and Maine, which all have Democratic attorneys general, were the only states not to submit a friend-of-the-court brief or intervene in the litigation in the ...