Disclosure Pressure Ratchets Upward - Will D&O Policies Provide Cover?

I concluded that I needed to pay more attention to climate change issues when I attended a seminar in 2005 and one of the speakers commented that inadequate climate change disclosures would not be covered under a D&O policy because of the pollution exclusion. Could it be so? The argument was deceptively simple. Carbon dioxide was a "pollutant." The inadequate disclosure "arose" out of the "release" of carbon dioxide. There is no coverage for same. Q.E.D. Thoughtful analysis, however, dispatches this canard. As we have written previously, carbon dioxide should not be classified as a pollu...