--- title: Audit, Compliance and Risk Blog | STP | ESG description: ESG | STP's blog giving insight into audit, compliance and risk issues for EHS, business and accounting. --- [![Specialty Technical Publishers](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/STP-logo-white-orange.png)](http://www.stpub.com/) - [My Account](http://stponline.stpub.com) - 1-800-251-0381 # Audit, Compliance and Risk Blog ## [SEC ends legal defense of climate-related disclosure requirements for public companies](https://blog.stpub.com/sec-ends-legal-defense-of-climate-related-disclosure-requirements-for-public-companies) Posted by [Jon Elliott](https://blog.stpub.com/author/jon-elliott) on Thu, May 15, 2025 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/pexels-pixabay-221012.jpg) ](https://blog.stpub.com/sec-ends-legal-defense-of-climate-related-disclosure-requirements-for-public-companies) On March 27, 2025 the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to stop defending rules adopted in 2024 (during the Biden administration) that would have required selected “public companies” (i.e, listed on national securities exchanges) to provide “climate-related disclosures for investors” in their registration statements and annual reports. SEC had stayed these rules’ effectiveness after being sued by two energy companies, which were later joined by other plaintiffs as well as state and nonprofit supporters of the rules. The latest SEC decision ends the agency’s defense in that litigation. [Read More](https://blog.stpub.com/sec-ends-legal-defense-of-climate-related-disclosure-requirements-for-public-companies) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.stpub.com/sec-ends-legal-defense-of-climate-related-disclosure-requirements-for-public-companies#comments-listing) Tags: [SEC](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/sec), [Environmental Policy](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/environmental-policy), [Climate](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/climate), [ESG](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/esg), [Environmental Compliance](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/environmental-compliance), [Risk Management](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/risk-management), [Sustainability Reporting](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/sustainability-reporting), [Climate Disclosure](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/climate-disclosure), [Climate Risk](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/climate-risk) ## [Coming to North America? EU proposes to narrow Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive requirements](https://blog.stpub.com/coming-to-north-america-eu-proposes-to-narrow-corporate-sustainability-reporting-directive-requirements) Posted by [Jon Elliott](https://blog.stpub.com/author/jon-elliott) on Thu, Apr 10, 2025 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/pexels-pixabay-325944.jpg) ](https://blog.stpub.com/coming-to-north-america-eu-proposes-to-narrow-corporate-sustainability-reporting-directive-requirements) On February 26, the European Union’s (EU’s) European Commission issued its “Omnibus I” proposal to “recalibrate” the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), by reducing reporting requirements and excluding smaller entities.  The CSRD was adopted in November 2022 and took effect in January 2023 (I wrote about it [HERE](https://blog.stpub.com/corporate-sustainability-reporting-directive-requirements-are-coming)), providing reporting requirements that are being phased in during 2024-2028. CSRD superseded and narrowed the EU’s previous Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD; which I discussed [HERE](https://blog.stpub.com/european-union-non-financial-reporting-directive-requirements)). The remainder of this note discusses the proposed changes.  [Read More](https://blog.stpub.com/coming-to-north-america-eu-proposes-to-narrow-corporate-sustainability-reporting-directive-requirements) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.stpub.com/coming-to-north-america-eu-proposes-to-narrow-corporate-sustainability-reporting-directive-requirements#comments-listing) Tags: [CSRD](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/csrd), [ESG](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/esg), [Hazardous Material](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/hazardous-material), [RegulatoryUpdates](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/regulatoryupdates), [Risk Management](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/risk-management), [Sustainability Reporting](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/sustainability-reporting), [EU Regulations](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/eu-regulations), [Sustainability Strategy](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/sustainability-strategy), [Corporate Sustainability](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/corporate-sustainability), [EU Compliance](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/eu-compliance) ## [EPA proposes non-detect lead contamination standards after residential abatement](https://blog.stpub.com/epa-proposes-non-detect-lead-contamination-standards-after-residential-abatement) Posted by [Jon Elliott](https://blog.stpub.com/author/jon-elliott) on Tue, Aug 29, 2023 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/Lead%20hazard.png) ](https://blog.stpub.com/epa-proposes-non-detect-lead-contamination-standards-after-residential-abatement) Lead and lead-containing materials are among the longest-used materials in construction and industry. Lead has been used in commercial, residential, and ceramic paint; in electric batteries and other devices; as a gasoline additive; for weighting; and other purposes. It also has been recognized as toxic to human health and the environment at least since the Romans, although understanding of the extent and severity of lead hazards has improved greatly in recent decades. Accordingly, environmental, occupational and public health agencies have progressively tightened standards to reduce lead exposures. On August 1, 2023, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to tighten post-remediation clearance levels as low as “non-detect.” The rest of this note discusses EPA’s latest proposal, and provides some context and background. 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