Dec 30, 2021 California Law Puts More Women in Corporate Board Seats By Joel I. Papernik According to the San Diego Union Tribune, California is pleased with the results of its 2018 gender diversity law. It has contributed to...
Dec 23, 2021 Will it make any practical difference if scientists finally crack the nuclear fusion nut? By Jeff Porter This morning David Abel reports in The Boston Globe reports that scientists at MIT and elsewhere have made significant progress toward...
Dec 20, 2021 Divestment from Fossil Fuel Companies Expands and Accelerates By Jacob H. Hupart Today, UBS Asset Management announced that it would divest from five energy companies, including ExxonMobil, because these companies are...
Dec 20, 2021 SEC Commissioner Crenshaw Voices Additional Support for ESG Disclosures By Jacob H. Hupart Last week, SEC Commissioner Crenshaw--one of the Democratic members of the SEC Commission--addressed the Center for American Progress and...
Dec 20, 2021 EPA's Stormwater General Permit is Safe. Does it Matter? By Jeff Porter A Colorado-based NGO has dropped its 9th Circuit lawsuit challenging EPA's Multi-Sector General Permit for stormwater discharges...
Dec 17, 2021 Another Day, Another Weaponization of the Courts to Try to Prevent Renewable Energy By Jeff Porter Another lawsuit has been filed in Federal Court in an attempt to sink the Vineyard Wind project off the coast of Nantucket. At first...
Dec 17, 2021 SEC Floats Tougher Rules By Joel I. Papernik The SEC is proposing changes that would impose additional conditions on 10b5-1 plans. As noted, if adopted, users of the plans would be...
Dec 17, 2021 Singapore Exchange Mandates Climate Disclosures By Jacob H. Hupart Yesterday, the Singapore Exchange announced that "[a]ll issuers must provide climate reporting on a 'comply or explain' basis in their...
Dec 17, 2021 SEC Commissioner Pierce Criticizes ESG Regulations By Jacob H. Hupart Yesterday, SEC Commissioner Pierce--one of two Republican SEC Commissioners--availed herself of the opportunity presented by a statement...
Dec 16, 2021 What Does it Take to Win 2/3 of the Time? By Stephen M. Osborn It was a cold November day in 2019 when the San Francisco Giants announced Gabe Kapler as their manager. I was disappointed. My...
Dec 14, 2021 Labor Politics and Antitrust Enforcement in Labor Markets By Joseph M. Miller The FTC and Antitrust Division held a workshop last week focused on labor issues, which superficially appears to be a continuation of the...
Dec 13, 2021 Another Maui Case in the Mountains By Jeff Porter Last week another NGO filed suit against another operator of a wastewater treatment facility, this one in the mountains of Montana,...
Dec 11, 2021 SEC's Acting Chief Accountant Emphasizes Significance of Climate Disclosures By Jacob H. Hupart This week, the SEC's Acting Chief Accountant, Paul Munter, issued a statement concerning "High Quality Financial Reporting in a Complex...
Dec 10, 2021 (Even) more of the same for 2022?! By Daniel B. Guggenheim I will admit that those of us in the commercial real estate world have a tendency to throw around phrases like "jammed", "buried", "under...
Dec 09, 2021 What Steve Martin Might Say About PFAS! By Jeff Porter All the pressure Congress is all of a sudden exerting on the Executive Branch of our Federal Government when it comes to PFAS brings to...
Dec 03, 2021 SEC Commissioner Crenshaw Focuses on Internal Controls Concerning ESG Risks By Jacob H. Hupart In a recent speech, SEC Commissioner Crenshaw, one of the Democratic appointees to the Commission, focused on the role internal controls...