API, others sue SEC over Dodd-Frank payment disclosure rule

The American Petroleum Institute and other business groups have filed a lawsuit on Oct. 10 against the US Securities and Exchange Commission its implementation of Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act. SEC’s new rule would require publicly traded US oil and gas companies to release sensitive, detailed payment information about projects that potentially could benefit their overseas national oil companies, API said.

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