31 Aug, 2021 Another Judge Who Couldn't Care Less What EPA Thinks -- Will the Chaos Created In Arizona Spread? By Jeff Porter News this morning that an Arizona Federal District Court Judge has done what many of us expected would happen eventually -- purport to...
30 Aug, 2021 Boston's Acting Mayor is Rescinding the Downtown Municipal Harbor Plan. What's Next? By Jeff Porter Much has been written over the past few days about Boston Acting Mayor Janey's decision to cut and run on the Downtown Municipal Harbor...
27 Aug, 2021 Government Investigation Into Possible Misrepresentations by Deutschebank in Green Investing By Jacob H. Hupart The Wall Street Journal has reported on a government investigation into DWS, an entity that is majority-owned by Deutschebank, in...
27 Aug, 2021 Climate Change and the Federal Reserve By Jacob H. Hupart There are many aspects to the changing regulatory landscape as the U.S. government (and other authorities) increase their focus on...
26 Aug, 2021 Protecting coastal communities from a GHG supercharged climate isn't just about the money By Jeff Porter We know it is going to cost millions if not billions of dollars to protect our coastal communities from the rising seas and storm surge...
25 Aug, 2021 At least these NIMBYies are honest -- another legal challenge to the Vineyard Wind project By Jeff Porter Today brings another lawsuit in federal court by NIMBYies, this time on Nantucket, seeking to kill the Vineyard Wind project. As in a...
25 Aug, 2021 Charlie Watts, Legendary Drummer By Mintz The Rolling Stones are my favorite band. The 1989 Steel Wheels show in Toronto was my first big concert (Start Me Up fireworks and Honky...
24 Aug, 2021 Another NGO Asks a Federal Appeals Court to Manage EPA. What's Next? By Jeff Porter Inside EPA reports that a Pacific Northwest NGO has asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to order the United States Environmental...
24 Aug, 2021 Court Rules "Independent Contractor" Prop 22 is Unconstitutional By Paul Huston On Friday, a California Superior Court judge held that California's Proposition 22--which allowed certain "gig economy" workers to be...
23 Aug, 2021 Extra Time For States In Clean Water Act Match Unlikely To End By Jeff Porter One of the many things I've never understood about soccer (football in the rest of the world) is that the referee can decide, or not, to...
19 Aug, 2021 A Company Meets the Definition of "Business" under the CCPA, Court Finds By Mintz In a first-of-its-kind ruling interpreting the CCPA, a federal judge concluded that a business was subject to the CCPA because the...
18 Aug, 2021 Nasdaq Listing Rule Aims to Improve Diversity in Boardrooms By Mintz The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) approved Nasdaq Inc.’s new listing rule aimed at improving diversity on corporate boards....
18 Aug, 2021 Influencing Inclusion and Creating Client-Facing Opportunities for Women By Mintz Nice profile piece featuring Narges Kakalia and her experiences as a litigator and her passion for driving change as our Director of...
17 Aug, 2021 With Friends Like These . . . Another Federal Appeals Court Takes Clean Water Act Enforcement out of EPA's hands By Jeff Porter This week the Sacketts of Idaho were handed their most recent litigation defeat by a three judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of...
16 Aug, 2021 Another Battle in the Political Fight Over How to Address High Drug Prices By Theresa Carnegie PCMA's lawsuit over the legality of the Trump-era drug price transparency rules is yet another battle in the on-going war in Washington...
12 Aug, 2021 Executive Stock Sales Are Under Scrutiny. Here’s What Regulators Are Interested In. By Joel I. Papernik The regulators have made it clear that they are revisiting Rule 10b5-1 Executive Stock Sale Plans with a view of “tightening” them up. ...