NY Lawmakers Push Bill on Corporate Greenhouse Data Reporting

New York Democrats are pressing legislation that would require companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions across their supply chain.

They are advancing a bill (S.B. 9072A) that would mandate corporations that have annual revenues in excess of $1 billion report annual emissions data both from their own activity and that of those generated by their purchasers and suppliers.

Democrats backing the bill, which passed the state Senate on a 40-22 vote on Feb. 10, cast it as a way to combat greenwashing — the deceptive practice of marketing a company as more environmentally responsible than it actually ...