Quote-Unquote: SEC defends climate disclosure rule, as challenges mount

Plus: PFAS, formaldehyde and asbestos. SEC urges appeals court rejection of suit to stay climate disclosure rule : “Even if this court considers petitioners’ premature stay motion, it should be denied. Petitioners are not likely to succeed on the merits because the rules fit comfortably within the commission’s long-standing authority to require the disclosure of information important to investors in making investment and voting decisions and are consistent with the commission’s prior exercise of that authority. . . . And,...