9th Circuit Blocks California’s Climate-Risk Disclosure Law Pending Appeal

The 9th Circuit is granting industry’s push to block the enforcement of California’s law requiring large companies to report their climate-related financial risks pending an appeal on the merits, though the court denied the industry’s request for an injunction on the state’s related law requiring companies to report their greenhouse gas emissions. “The U.S. Chamber welcomes the Ninth Circuit’s decision to pause California’s unconstitutional climate disclosure law, pending appeal,” said Daryl Joseffer, executive vice president and chief counsel at the...