Numerous trade and industry organizations (among other commenters) including 36 associations/organizations representing the oil, gas and energy industry; more than 100 organizations representing agriculture, livestock and poultry farmers, and ranchers; 16 organizations representing the real estate, housing, and hotel industries; and many more, have requested an extension of time to comment on the SEC’s climate disclosure rulemaking proposal to allow sufficient time to meaningfully digest and analyze the ~500 page release and hundreds of questions, and to collect the type of qualitative and quantitative data that the Commission requests commenters provide to support their views. Extension requests range from 30 – 180 days.
Last week, we reported that each of the Society and US Chamber of Commerce Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness had requested a 60-day extension of the comment period for these reasons.
See Fried Frank’s “SIFMA Executives Criticize ‘Aggressive Rulemaking Agenda’ at SEC.”
This post first appeared in the weekly Society Alert!