The SEC did a sensible thing on climate change. A right-wing campaign is trying to kill it.

Photo caption: The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is pictured on April 20, 2020, at Wall Street in New York City. Photo credit: Johannes Eisele / AFP via Getty Images. Article by Rebecca Leber. Vox – June 21, 2022.

Even a Wall Street-endorsed climate rule is facing serious headwinds.

As drought spreads and sea levels rise, the economic impacts of climate change will run in the trillions of dollars. The insurance firm Swiss Re projects climate disasters would cost the world as much as $23 trillion by 2050, bigger than the impact from the pandemic and the Great Recession of 2009 combined. […]

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