The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed rules Monday that would force publicly traded companies to reveal the ways climate change could threaten their businesses and their own contributions to global warming.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday laid out the department's plans to mobilize the U.S. economy against climate change, defying growing criticism from Republicans over the pace and scope of President Biden's environmental agenda.
Financial regulators are putting their environmental agenda into action as the Biden administration expands the ways the federal government will fight climate change.
