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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Constitutional Challenges Reporting Requirements

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California Climate Disclosure Laws Survive Preliminary Injunction on First Amendment Challenge: Reporting Obligations Swiftly...

On August 13, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California denied a motion for preliminary injunction filed by a coalition of business groups seeking to halt implementation of California’s corporate...more

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

California’s Unique Greenhouse Gas Emissions Laws Remain in Effect—For Now

Relief is not immediately in sight for companies subject to key California greenhouse gas emission laws. A federal court in California recently denied a motion for a preliminary injunction to pause compliance with SB-253,...more

Alston & Bird

California Climate Disclosure Laws Survive First Amendment Challenge

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Two California climate disclosure laws have withstood an attempt to block them in a lawsuit challenging their constitutionality. Our Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources Group breaks down what the federal court’s...more

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California Wins Key Victory in Ongoing Challenge to Its Climate Disclosure Laws

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Key Takeaways - What is Happening? On August 13, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (the District Court) denied the motion for a preliminary injunction filed by the United States Chamber of...more

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Ongoing Legal Battle Over California’s Climate-Related Disclosure Laws: District Court Gives Red Light to Preliminary Injunction...

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On August 13, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California denied a motion for preliminary injunction to enjoin California Senate Bills 253 and 261. The Chamber of Commerce and five co-Plaintiffs...more

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California Climate Reporting Deadlines Loom After Denial of Preliminary Injunction

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For the thousands of companies potentially subject to California’s landmark climate reporting laws—the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act (SB 253) and the Climate-Related Financial Risk Act (SB 261)—reporting has...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Federal Court Rejects Preliminary Injunction Against California Climate Disclosure Laws

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The ruling allows implementation of the laws while First Amendment litigation proceeds on the merits....more

Stoel Rives - Environmental Law Blog

No Pause for Climate Disclosures: Court Denies Motion for Preliminary Injunction Against California’s SB 253 and SB 261

On August 13, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California dealt a setback to plaintiffs and potentially regulated entities in Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America et al. v. California...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Federal Court Declines to Enjoin California Climate Disclosure Laws

On August 13, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California declined to enjoin California’s two major climate disclosure bills, the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act (SB 253) and the...more

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Court Denies Preliminary Injunction to Enjoin California’s Climate Disclosure Laws

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On Wednesday, August 13, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California issued an order denying plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction to enjoin California’s Climate Corporate Data...more

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Court Upholds California Climate Disclosure Laws—for Now

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On August 13, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California denied the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s motion for a preliminary injunction seeking to halt enforcement of SB 253 (emissions disclosure) and SB...more

Baker Donelson

California's Climate Laws: CARB Sets the Stage, but Final Rules Delayed

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California is gearing up to implement and enforce two groundbreaking climate disclosure laws – the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act (CCDA) and the Climate-Related Financial Risk Act (CFRA). In July 2025, in lieu of...more

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Update on California's Climate Disclosure Laws: What Companies Need to Know

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On May 29, 2025, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) held a virtual public workshop to discuss forthcoming regulations implementing California’s corporate climate disclosure laws. The workshop focused on the scope of...more

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Latest Developments in Fight Over California’s Climate Disclosure Laws

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A preliminary injunction motion is set for May, the judge issued a scheduling order, and CARB announced a public workshop to kick off a rulemaking to implement the laws....more

Baker Donelson

Red Tape or Green Future? Unpacking California's Climate Disclosure Laws and the Pushback

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As the federal government works to roll back climate regulations and climate-focused initiatives, states are developing avenues to fill in the gaps left behind. In 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted...more

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Surprise—not! SEC votes to terminate defense of climate disclosure rules

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Yesterday, the SEC announced that the Commissioners had voted to end the SEC’s “defense of the rules requiring disclosure of climate-related risks and greenhouse gas emissions”—the climate disclosure rules. As you probably...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Court Dismisses Portions of Lawsuit Against California Climate Disclosure Laws

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Supremacy Clause and Dormant Commerce Clause claims against SB 253 and SB 261 were dismissed, while claims under the First Amendment proceed to discovery....more

Paul Hastings LLP

New York State Bill Seeks to Impose Greenhouse Gas Emissions Disclosure Requirements

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On January 27, 2025, N.Y Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal (D), introduced Senate Bill 3456 (“SB 3456”) calling for the adoption of the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act (“CCDAA”). The bill is substantively identical to...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Court Order Hobbles Challenge to California’s Climate Disclosure Laws

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Companies following the ongoing legal challenge to California’s climate disclosure laws in hopes that the court would strike down or limit the scope of these laws will be disappointed by the order issued by the U.S. District...more

Allen Matkins

California Air Resources Board Solicits Input On California Greenhouse Gas Emissions Disclosure Laws

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I recently published a post questioning the legality of the California Air Resources Board's Enforcement Notice.  The California legislature charged CARB with the responsibility of implementing SB 253 (Wiener) and SB 261...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

California’s New Climate Disclosure and GHG-Related Claims Laws

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On October 7, 2023, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a trio of climate-related bills that will impact what companies doing business in California must (or can) say about their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the...more

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