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Pending content is not necessarily effective.","topic":"818","topic_title":"Environmental Credits and Environmental Credit Obligations","subtopic":"818-30","subtopic_title":"Environmental Credit Obligations","section":{"number":"25","label":"25 Recognition","anchor":"25-recognition","is_sec":false,"groups":[{"block":null,"heading":null,"paragraphs":[{"citation":"818-30-25-1","para":"25-1","html":"<div class=\"asc-body\"><div class=\"div pending-text\" id=\"pgroup_gm1_2nf_y3c__GUID-BC4A68BF-4C6D-4ACD-AE20-0C8B9276C95C\"><div class=\"div date-effective\"><span class=\"transition-header\">Transition date:</span><span class=\"p-alphabet\">(P) December 16, 2027; (N) December 16, 2028</span><span class=\"transition-header pipe-separator\">Transition guidance:</span></div><a href=\"/asc/818/10/#818-10-65-1\" class=\"xref\">818-10-65-1</a><span class=\"sfragment\" id=\"GUID-C9AE4FD8-8D1D-48DF-B095-12B6F10A7235\"><span class=\"sfragment-source\">An entity shall recognize a liability when events that occur on or before a reporting date result in an <a href=\"/glossary/e/#environmental-credit-obligation\" class=\"term\" title=\"(P) December 16, 2027; (N) December 16, 2028818-10-65-1A regulatory compliance obligation arising from existing or enacted laws, statutes, or ordinances represented to prevent, control, reduce, or remove emissions or other pollution that may be settled with environmental credits. Obligations within the scope of Subtopic 410-30 are not environmental credit obligations.\"><span>environmental credit obligation</span></a>. When evaluating whether a liability should be recognized, an entity shall determine whether <a href=\"/glossary/e/#environmental-credit\" class=\"term\" title=\"(P) December 16, 2027; (N) December 16, 2028818-10-65-1An enforceable right that is acquired, internally generated, granted by a regulatory agency or its designee(s), or received in a nonreciprocal transfer that is not a grant from a regulator or its designee(s) that meets all of the following criteria:Lacks physical substance and is not a financial asset.Is represented to prevent, control, reduce, or remove emissions or other pollution.Is, or previously was, separately transferable in an exchange transaction. If an item is no longer separately transferable in an exchange transaction, an entity must be able to use that item to satisfy an environmental credit obligation to meet this criterion.Is not an income tax credit that may be used to settle an entity’s income tax liability, regardless of whether the entity has a tax liability or intends to use the credit for that purpose.An environmental credit that meets the above criteria may exist in a variety of forms, including (but not limited to) credits, certificates, allowances, and offsets.\"><span>environmental credits</span></a> would be due assuming that the reporting date is the end of the regulatory compliance period, regardless of whether the regulatory compliance period ends after the reporting date. An entity shall recognize the costs associated with an environmental credit obligation liability either in earnings or, if appropriate, as part of another asset accounted for in accordance with another Topic.</span></span></div></div>","snippet":"Transition date:(P) December 16, 2027; (N) December 16, 2028Transition guidance:818-10-65-1An entity shall recognize a liability when events that occur on or before a reporting date result in an environmental credit obli…","pending":true,"provenance":{"source_url":"https://asc.fasb.org/","snapshot_version":"sha256:15aea8165dff9f5ae47d9484f8470588b13b307f56e1d50801bf4d85ec190e3f","record_version":"sha256:7975d40a40c472282f1119ef16085f5eb845a720d913653a469da8455917f23e","downloaded_from":"2026-09-10T01:42:47.889Z","last_downloaded_at":"2026-09-10T01:42:47.889Z","date_scope":"source_page","effective_as_of":null,"effective_as_of_status":"Not established by retrieval timestamps","source_key":"1943274/2147476113","source_sha256":"3bc2d8545ac6d62aacd1d0e313a469317a07bf2b23e26bced3fccd9ad9768bc3"}},{"citation":"818-30-25-2","para":"25-2","html":"<div class=\"asc-body\"><div class=\"div pending-text\" id=\"pgroup_gm1_2nf_y3c__GUID-1D95035A-3C05-4104-82D5-E13A84910BAC\"><div class=\"div date-effective\"><span class=\"transition-header\">Transition date:</span><span class=\"p-alphabet\">(P) December 16, 2027; (N) December 16, 2028</span><span class=\"transition-header pipe-separator\">Transition guidance:</span></div><a href=\"/asc/818/10/#818-10-65-1\" class=\"xref\">818-10-65-1</a><span class=\"sfragment\" id=\"GUID-3427F65F-9D1D-45C4-8394-32C4905419C6\"><span class=\"sfragment-source\">See paragraphs <div class=\"xref-range displayInline\"><a href=\"/asc/818/30/#818-30-55-2\" class=\"xref\">818-30-55-2 through 55-4</a></div> for implementation guidance on the application of recognition requirements.</span></span></div></div>","snippet":"Transition date:(P) December 16, 2027; (N) December 16, 2028Transition guidance:818-10-65-1See paragraphs 818-30-55-2 through 55-4 for implementation guidance on the application of recognition requirements.","pending":true,"provenance":{"source_url":"https://asc.fasb.org/","snapshot_version":"sha256:15aea8165dff9f5ae47d9484f8470588b13b307f56e1d50801bf4d85ec190e3f","record_version":"sha256:62dfa7427871a5fe329262b0bc6fa46f3e309d9639289778433c1a5810d5f114","downloaded_from":"2026-09-10T01:42:47.889Z","last_downloaded_at":"2026-09-10T01:42:47.889Z","date_scope":"source_page","effective_as_of":null,"effective_as_of_status":"Not established by retrieval timestamps","source_key":"1943274/2147476113","source_sha256":"3bc2d8545ac6d62aacd1d0e313a469317a07bf2b23e26bced3fccd9ad9768bc3"}}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://asc.fasb.org/","snapshot_version":"sha256:15aea8165dff9f5ae47d9484f8470588b13b307f56e1d50801bf4d85ec190e3f","record_version":"sha256:df5070901c148349c0ea80023a1c2fe530aa7a0b3b219f9e5e2c4c9bb34d66ee","downloaded_from":"2026-09-10T01:42:47.889Z","last_downloaded_at":"2026-09-10T01:42:47.889Z","date_scope":"source_page","effective_as_of":null,"effective_as_of_status":"Not established by retrieval timestamps","source_key":"1943274/2147476113","source_sha256":"3bc2d8545ac6d62aacd1d0e313a469317a07bf2b23e26bced3fccd9ad9768bc3"}}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://asc.fasb.org/","snapshot_version":"sha256:15aea8165dff9f5ae47d9484f8470588b13b307f56e1d50801bf4d85ec190e3f","record_version":"sha256:d7bf96a341fbd691bff0b46f78e4924bad3bec6888378828f79517ce4be418c1","downloaded_from":"2026-09-10T01:42:47.889Z","last_downloaded_at":"2026-09-10T01:42:47.889Z","date_scope":"source_page","effective_as_of":null,"effective_as_of_status":"Not established by retrieval timestamps","source_key":"1943274/2147476113","source_sha256":"3bc2d8545ac6d62aacd1d0e313a469317a07bf2b23e26bced3fccd9ad9768bc3"}},"provenance":{"source_url":"https://asc.fasb.org/","snapshot_version":"sha256:15aea8165dff9f5ae47d9484f8470588b13b307f56e1d50801bf4d85ec190e3f","record_version":"sha256:d7bf96a341fbd691bff0b46f78e4924bad3bec6888378828f79517ce4be418c1","downloaded_from":"2026-09-10T01:42:47.889Z","last_downloaded_at":"2026-09-10T01:42:47.889Z","date_scope":"source_page","effective_as_of":null,"effective_as_of_status":"Not established by retrieval timestamps","source_key":"1943274/2147476113","source_sha256":"3bc2d8545ac6d62aacd1d0e313a469317a07bf2b23e26bced3fccd9ad9768bc3"}}