May 28, 2021 Dutch Court Orders Shell to Reduce Emissions to Combat Climate Change By Jacob H. Hupart Yesterday, a Dutch court ruled that Shell, a company based in the Netherlands, must reduce its carbon emissions to combat climate change....
May 26, 2021 Exxon Shareholders Reject Management Candidates to Elect Board Directors Focused on Climate Change By Jacob H. Hupart Today, shareholders in ExxonMobil rejected the candidates for the board of directors supported by management, and instead elected...
May 25, 2021 Who wants to be a completion guarantor... Bueller? Bueller? By Daniel B. Guggenheim The concerns about rising costs for construction materials are not new, but the recent volatility in pricing seems to be wreaking havoc...
May 25, 2021 Time Keeps on Slippin', Slippin', Slippin', Into the Future -- Another Pre Maui Case Goes On and On By Jeff Porter Almost eight years ago two NGOs sued the New York State Park Department alleging, among other things, that discharges from septic systems...
May 24, 2021 That Snowball in Guam Just Melted! By Jeff Porter Some of you will recall that I had predicted that the United States didn't have a snowball's chance in Guam of using a Clean Water Act...
May 24, 2021 The Forever Chemicals are also Everywhere Chemicals By Jeff Porter Yes, you read that excerpt correctly. One in five municipalities required by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to test for PFAS in their...
May 21, 2021 President Biden Signs Executive Order on Climate Change, Focusing on Financial Risk By Jacob H. Hupart Today, President Biden issued an executive order on climate change, announcing that it is "the policy of my Administration to advance...
May 21, 2021 More Than One Million Households Enroll for the FCC's Emergency Broadband Benefit By Angela Y. Kung The FCC announced that more than one million households have enrolled in the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program in only one week since...
May 19, 2021 House Passes The Insider Trading Prohibition Act By Jack Sylvia On Tuesday, the House passed the Insider Trading Prohibition Act, an effort to codify and clarify inconsistencies in the case law...
May 18, 2021 When it comes to PFAS, it isn't a question of whether EPA will step in but when and how By Jeff Porter Inside EPA reports that EPA is moving quickly to set Maximum Contaminant Level Goals for two of the thousands of PFAS. That's no...
May 18, 2021 Supreme Court Issues Limited Ruling in Climate Change Litigation By Jacob H. Hupart The Supreme Court just issued a 7-1 ruling (authored by Justice Gorsuch) in favor of oil and gas companies in climate change...
May 17, 2021 IPO Market Faces a Critical Juncture By Joel I. Papernik In view of the present volatile stock market, among other things, concern is being expressed about the possible closing of the IPO...
May 14, 2021 SEC Chairman Re-Affirms Focus on Climate Change Disclosures By Jacob H. Hupart Yesterday, SEC Chairman Gensler re-affirmed the focus of the SEC on regulations concerning climate change risk disclosures. ...
May 14, 2021 Another 1st Circuit Decision Deferring to Agency Judgment in an Environmental Case By Jeff Porter Yesterday Judge Lynch, writing for herself and the other First Circuit judges who seem to be handling all the environmental cases...
May 13, 2021 Unconscious Uncoupling: How can we Glue our Organizations Back Together after the Pandemic By Stephen M. Osborn From my 20+ years as a business executive and corporate lawyer, I have observed that all successful businesses have key people in 4...
May 13, 2021 I'm all for "go big or go home" Representative Dingell but . . . . By Jeff Porter Inside EPA reports that yesterday Representative Dingell of Michigan, one of the co-authors of the PFAS Action Act of 2021, used the...