Episode 253: SEC Moves Forward With Aggressive Climate Regulations

The Securities & Exchange Commission has proposed a rule mandating, among other things, that publicly-traded companies will for the first time be required to report their greenhouse-gas emissions including, in certain cases, those from their suppliers and customers. We’ll talk to the National Restaurant Association’s Vice President of Public Policy, Aaron Frazier, who is the industry’s point person in this conversation and try to understand what impact these regulations will have for the industry and what lays ahead in this issue space. And we’ll take a look at a new reputation survey looking at prominent friendly brands that are having their reputations tarnished by partisan politics and discuss the potential impacts, if any. And of course, the latest and greatest on Starbucks, which now has over 100 units that have voted for unionization and continues to see their struggle with the NLRB consistently escalating. We’ll discuss those issues and wrap it up with the legislative scorecard.