26 Jul, 2024 Governor Newsom Proposes 2-Year Delay to California Climate Disclosure Law By Jacob H. Hupart Governor Newsom has proposed that the implementation of California's mandatory climate disclosure laws--which apply to all companies...
26 Jul, 2024 EPA's exclamation that PFAS are unsafe in minute concentrations is turning out to have serious ramifications for many, including EPA. By Jeff Porter Lara Beaven of Inside PFAS Policy reports that Maine farmers have joined litigation against the Environmental Protection Agency for not...
23 Jul, 2024 SEC Commissioner Peirce Critiques ESG Reporting Frameworks By Jacob H. Hupart SEC Commissioner Peirce recently delivered a speech where she extensively criticized the recent emphasis on ESG among businesses, in...
23 Jul, 2024 Puerto Rico Launches Climate Tort Lawsuit Against Fossil Fuel Companies By Jacob H. Hupart Puerto Rico has become the latest governmental entity to launch a lawsuit against the major fossil fuel companies concerning tort claims...
23 Jul, 2024 The Demise of the Chevron Doctrine Begins to Impact ESG Jurisprudence By Jacob H. Hupart Last week, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated and remanded the appeal from a lower court's decision upholding the Biden...
22 Jul, 2024 Reading about failed turbine blades & "alkalinity enhancement"? Well we've dealt ourselves a lousy climate hand and don't have the luxury of folding. By Jeff Porter Two Boston Globe stories I read this weekend on the rapidly shrinking island of Nantucket this weekend are worthy of your attention. ...
09 Jul, 2024 The Generalissimo | Remembering Willie Mays By Stephen M. Osborn The San Francisco Giants held a memorial at Oracle Park yesterday for perhaps the greatest baseball player to ever live: Willie Mays. ...
01 Jul, 2024 The Supreme Court's Corner Post opinion is another blow to the Executive Branch of our Federal Government, changing everything we thought we knew. By Jeff Porter Just when Federal agencies and Administrative Law Professors thought it couldn't get any worse, the current majority of our nation's...
27 Jun, 2024 Republican Lawmakers Submit Amicus Brief Urging Eighth Circuit to Void SEC's Mandatory Climate Disclosure Rule By Jacob H. Hupart On June 25, 2024, thirty-five Republican legislators, including seventeen senators and eighteen representatives, filed an amicus brief in...
24 Jun, 2024 Whenever this Supreme Court agrees to review a 9th Circuit interpretation of a law, the outcome is nearly certain. This NEPA case is no exception. By Jeff Porter This morning our nation's highest court agreed to hear an appeal by seven Utah Counties and a railroad company of a DC Circuit Court of...
20 Jun, 2024 EPA and the Corps have won one in North Carolina but their most recent Waters of the United States rule isn't nearly out of the woods yet. By Jeff Porter Judge Boyle of the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina has denied the Pacific Legal Foundation's client an...
18 Jun, 2024 The North Atlantic Right Whales deserve our best effort to save them, and the high-speed ferry plan doesn't seem to be that. By Jeff Porter The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is pressing ahead with its plan to ban Fast Ferries between the Massachusetts...
12 Jun, 2024 Brian McGrory has a good point about the resolution of the Nantucket Clam Shack NIMBY controversy, but there's another lesson to be learned here By Jeff Porter Some of you may recall my earlier reports on Nantucket NIMBYs' efforts to deny local Chef Gabriel Frasca the opportunity to deliver fried...
11 Jun, 2024 Has ESG Turned the Boardroom into an Escape Room? By Jennifer B. Rubin For those of you who have never participated in an escape room, it is a real-life game that confines a group of people (usually friends,...
10 Jun, 2024 In Honor of Pride Month By Stephen M. Osborn There was a time when I thought marriage rights were not my issue. I am a heterosexual man, who grew up in San Francisco with acceptance...
10 Jun, 2024 Removal of Commissioners, ALJs Does Not Offend Separation of Powers: Tenth Circuit By Sherwet Witherington Charles A. Samuels When the CPSC finds that a product is defective and constitutes a substantial product hazard, it will ask a company to voluntarily...