S&P 500 Firms Rarely Disclose Emissions to SEC as Rules Loom

S&P 500 companies are mostly steering clear of providing greenhouse gas emissions disclosures in their annual reports to the SEC, as rules requiring such climate reporting face an uncertain future.

Only 126 of the 410 companies listed on the S&P 500 stock index that filed their 10-K reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission through May this year discussed pollution from their direct operations and energy usage in those filings, according to a Bloomberg Law review. Even the roughly one-third of companies that did mention so-called Scope 1 and 2 emissions by name in their 10-Ks did not necessarily provide ...