From: SPR Environmental Law Blog
On November 19, The AES Corporation (”AES”) entered
into a settlement with the Attorney General of the State of New
York (”NYAG”) regarding disclosure of climate change
risk to investors. This is the third such settlement
with the NYAG by a major power company (the other two settling
power companies were Xcel Energy and Dynegy). [...]
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