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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Wednesday adopted final rules regarding climate disclosures in a 3 to 2 vote. The final rules left out some of the more burdensome reporting requirements for greenhouse gas emissions that were in the proposed rule, but they still maintain many of the other climate-related reporting requirements that critics say will be costly to comply with. "Today, the SEC announced that it has allowed radical climate activists to hijack our capital markets. Unable to push their unpopular agenda through Congress, these leftists have found a willing partner in SEC Chairman Gary Gensler,” House Majority Leader...

Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been found guilty by a Swedish court of disobeying a police order at a protest in Malmo last month. The 20-year-old avoided a potential prison sentence and has been fined 2,500 Swedish krona (€216), AFP reports. Greta had pleaded not guilty and told the court: "My actions are justifiable," according to the Sydsvenskan newspaper. "We are definitely not going to back down because of this,” she told reporters after the verdict. “We don't have any laws that long term protect us against the self-destructing greed that we have let [have] full control over the world....

When Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) suddenly collapsed in the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history, many startups and their VC backers focused on sustainability and tackling climate change sprang into action to secure their funds. Federal financial regulators soon stepped in to guarantee deposits, but tighter lending conditions from the banking crisis and higher interest rates pose new challenges for climate tech companies at a time when there's not much time to act and avert the worst effects of climate change. “There is a massive hole in that slice of the climate capitalization pie that's missing," Sophie Purdom, climate tech...

The media have been largely silent on a Biden administration energy project that one conservationist said would be "armageddon" for public lands. It’s a far cry from how reporters covered similar proposals under former president Donald Trump. In December 2022, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced that her department would expedite plans to build solar energy farms on up to 100 million acres of untouched public land in five Western states, in a bid to "tackle climate change." The announcement has garnered little to no national attention, save for the occasional report that the Biden administration is expanding renewable energy production.