US SEC Will Not Defend Climate Rule in Court February 12, 2025 By Isla Binnie, Virginia Furness and Jonathan Stempel The acting chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday signaled the regulator may roll back a controversial...
New York State Insurance Fund Swapped Coal Assets for Responsible Index ETF September 27, 2024 By Ross Kerber and Isla Binnie Moving money from coal assets to a new responsible-investment exchange-traded vehicle provided the sort of quick win the New York...
US House Committee Report Finds Wall Street ‘Colluded’ to Curb Emissions June 11, 2024 By Isla Binnie A U.S. congressional committee will accuse the biggest Wall Street firms on Tuesday, in a report seen by Reuters ahead...
US SEC Stays Climate Disclosure Rule Amid Legal Challenges April 5, 2024 By Isla Binnie Wall Street’s top regulator has stayed new climate-related disclosure requirements pending judicial review, the agency said in a statement on...
SEC Drops Some Emissions Disclosure Requirements From Draft Climate Rules February 23, 2024 By Chris Prentice, Isla Binnie, Jarrett Renshaw and Douglas Gillison The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has removed some of its most ambitious greenhouse gas emission disclosure requirements from...
SEC Signals It May Curb Climate Rule Ambitions November 20, 2023 By Jarrett Renshaw, Douglas Gillison and Isla Binnie U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) officials have told lobbyists and corporate executives in recent days that the agency’s long-anticipated...
US Insurers Invested in Fossil Fuels as Climate Risks to Underwriting Mount August 8, 2023 By Isla Binnie U.S.-based insurers have invested hundreds of billions of dollars in fossil fuel-related assets which in turn contribute to the risk...
How Spain’s COVID Tracing App Navigates Europe’s Privacy Protections September 17, 2020 By Isla Binnie “What does RadarCOVID not do?” a promotional video for Spain’s contact-tracing app asks. The answer: while navigating the country’s decentralized...
EU-Based Britons Fuel Growth in Healthcare Insurance as Post-Brexit Fears Grow October 17, 2019 By Carolyn Cohn, Isla Binnie and Maya Nikolaeva Some Britons living in the Europe Union are worried about losing access to free healthcare after Brexit, opening up a...
Devastating S. Europe Drought Scorches Crops; Farmers Question Their Future July 17, 2017 By Isla Binnie and Paul Day Italian durum wheat and dairy farmer Attilio Tocchi saw warning signs during the winter of the dramatic drought to come...