The bill would require companies with revenue in excess of $1 billion to disclose independently verified data on their emissions.Apple has endorsed a California Senate bill requiring large companies to report the levels of greenhouse gases they emit every year.
"Throughout our environmental journey, we've emphasised the importance of measurement and reporting to help us understand our impact," said the letter, signed by Apple's director for state and local government affairs D. Michael Foulkes, a copy of which Senator Scott Wiener posted on Thursday to X, formerly known as Twitter.
"Thank you, Apple, for making clear that this is doable a critically important piece of climate action," Wiener wrote.The top US securities regulator is yet to publish a long-awaited rule of its own on climate-related disclosures, and California senators are going ahead at the state level.