SEC Aide Downplays Climate Rule October Target Release Date (1)

The SEC is downplaying the possibility climate disclosure regulations will arrive in October as a commission agenda suggests, with an agency official saying Thursday the target date is only its “best estimate.”

The Securities and Exchange Commission is aware its most recent regulatory agenda identifies October as the month it’s aiming to release final rules requiring corporate greenhouse gas emissions disclosures, said Mellissa Campbell Duru, deputy director for legal and regulatory policy in the agency’s Division of Corporation Finance. But dates in the agenda usually predict the quarter of the year the SEC aims to act, she said, indicating a ...