How the SEC’s ‘climate disclosure’ agenda clouds America’s energy future * WorldNetDaily * by Stone Washington, Real Clear Wire [Video]

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) climate disclosure rule posts real problems for public companies. The SEC’s mission is to do facilitate capital formation and maintain market efficiency, but for the first time in its 90-year history, the SEC has injected political risk factors into its traditionally principles-based disclosure framework.

Leading up to the new rule, the SEC buckled under pressure from left-wing special interests to impose the first environmental disclosure mandate on public companies. If the SEC’s final rule is allowed to go into effect by the courts, it will be a financial disaster for the public markets.

My latest policy report illustrates many of the ways that U.S. firms will suffer under the SEC’s climate rule. The report was published on the same day the RealClearFoundation hosted its 2024 Energy Future Forum, where the SEC’s excessive overreach on climate policy was …