SEC Climate Rules Poised for Fall Release, Ex-Commissioner Says

The SEC likely will issue its rules requiring corporate reporting on greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental matters after this summer, former SEC Commissioner Robert Jackson said Thursday.

Jackson, a left-leaning independent who left the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2020, said a release of the final climate disclosure rules “looks more like the fall.”

Jackson’s remarks come as the agency will miss an April completion date it was targeting in its regulatory agenda. SEC Chair Gary Gensler has repeatedly declined to give a timeline for finishing the rules or say how closely the agency’s 2022 climate disclosure proposal will ...