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Ensuring Robust Consideration of Climate Change Under NEPA

This policy brief outlines six regulatory revisions for the Council on Environmental Quality to prioritize in its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) rulemaking to improve consideration of climate change during environmental review. Each of the suggestions is consistent with the purpose, structure, and text of NEPA and will better ensure…
Dena Adler and Max Sarinsky
April 22, 2022
Event/ConferenceFinancial DisclosureFinancial Regulation

Unpacking the Proposed SEC Rule on Climate Risk Disclosure

In this webinar EDF+ Business Project Manager Gabriel Malek moderated a conversation with Michael Panfil, Lead Counsel and Director of Climate Risk Strategies of EDF, Wendy Cromwell, Head of Sustainable Investing for Wellington Management, and Fitzann Reid, Deputy General Counsel with Engine No. 1, on key elements of the Securities…
Gabriel Malek, Michael Panfil and Others
April 7, 2022
Blog/News ArticleFinancial RegulationRegulatory Activities

How a Proposed Department of Labor Rule Would Help Protect Retirement Savings From Climate Risk

This blog explains how a Department of Labor proposal would help protect Americans’ retirement savings by highlighting the financial relevance of climate change; undoing harmful Trump administration rules; affirming that fiduciaries should consider ESG factors like climate change when relevant to investment risk-return analysis; applying the same rational principles to…
Stephanie Jones and Alex Song
March 14, 2022
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Evaluating Climate Risk in NEPA Reviews: Current Practices and Recommendations for Reform

This report finds that in order to meet the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirement that federal agencies take a “hard look” at the environmental effects of proposed actions, agencies must consider how the changing weather and environmental conditions brought by climate change might impact an action and alter its…
Romany Webb, Michael Panfil, Stephanie Jones and Dena Adler
February 15, 2022