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Legal departments of publicly traded companies are anxiously waiting for the Securities and Exchange Commission to set rules for climate-related disclosures. What's clear based on a deluge of public comments submitted to the agency from general counsel and others is that there's no way the regulator is going to keep everyone happy.

On the one hand, for instance, you have the submission from HP Inc., a pioneer in this space that has been producing a public sustainability report since the early 2000, long before the topic was trendy.