October 02, 2015
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission told a Massachusetts federal court Friday that it plans to finalize by next summer new rules requiring oil, gas and mining companies to disclose payments to foreign governments, but that the process won't be easy and is fraught with uncertainty.
September 04, 2015
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may end up paying a price for blowing the tight deadlines Congress gave it for passing rules out of the Dodd-Frank Act and other laws after a federal court on Wednesday ordered the agency to hurry up on finalizing disclosure requirements on public oil, gas and mining companies.
September 02, 2015
A federal judge ordered the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday to stop dragging its heels on a rule outlined under the Dodd-Frank Act that will force oil, gas and minerals extractors to report when they make payments to foreign governments.
March 16, 2015
Oxfam asked a Boston federal judge to reject the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's contention that a Dodd-Frank Act rule requiring oil, gas and mineral companies to report payments to foreign governments is too complex to finish this year, arguing Friday that the agency is dragging its feet merely because it believes it can.
March 02, 2015
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission asked a Massachusetts federal judge Friday to reject Oxfam America's challenge to the delay of a Dodd-Frank Act rule requiring oil, gas and mineral companies to report payments to foreign governments, saying Oxfam has no reason to interfere in the agency's rulemaking process.
September 18, 2014
Oxfam America sued the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday to compel the regulator to implement a controversial Dodd-Frank provision under which oil and gas companies would be required to disclose payments for valuable government land leases.