Andrew Ramonas

1 week ago | news.bgov.com | Andrew Oxford |Andrew Ramonas

Companies with more than $1 billion in annual revenue but as little as $735,000 in sales in California would have to report greenhouse gas emissions to the state under a new regulatory proposal. But they may be hard-pressed to meet those new disclosure requirements by January as regulators indicated they are still months away from issuing regulations, missing a July deadline.

1 week ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Andrew Ramonas

Oil companies take sides in Trump’s Gulf of America rebranding Southwest Airlines avoids naming body of water in annual report ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil are avoiding the “Gulf of America.” Chevron and Hess are jumping in. President Donald Trump’s new name for the Gulf of Mexico, as it has been known since the 16th century, is fueling a corporate divide over what to call the body of water stretching from Florida to Texas.

1 week ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Andrew Ramonas |Jeff Harrington |David Jolly

ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil are avoiding the “Gulf of America.” Chevron and Hess are jumping in. President Donald Trump’s new name for the Gulf of Mexico, as it has been known since the 16th century, is fueling a corporate divide over what to call the body of water stretching from Florida to Texas. Big companies with ties to the area have deployed various aliases in communications with investors since Trump renamed the gulf in January—if they talk about it at all.

2 weeks ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Suzanne Monyak |Andrew Ramonas |Justin Wise |Seth Stern

The Trump administration wants to use the False Claims Act, a law meant to target fraud by government contractors and federal-funding recipients, as a tool to target universities and other private institutions over their diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. The Justice Department said Monday that the new initiative would utilize the law to go after any institution “knowingly” violating federal civil rights laws despite certifying its compliance with such statutes.

2 weeks ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Andrew Ramonas

SEC Commissioner Mark Uyeda on Monday questioned if he and his fellow Republicans should devote agency resources to undo corporate emissions reporting requirements as an appellate court reviews the regulations’ legality. The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit paused litigation in April and ordered the Securities and Exchange Commission to share its plans for the rules by July.