Dec 27, 2022 Cash for Gas? Rethinking Employee Benefits in the Hybrid Work World By Evan Piercey Should employers subsidize travel costs as hybrid work arrangements calcify nationwide? According to this article in The Wall Street...
Dec 15, 2022 The Hybrid Work Compromise...Maybe Employers and Employees Can Have Their Cake and Eat it Too By Evan Piercey Hybrid work is part of the new normal. But what does hybrid work really entail? And what factors should employers consider as they enter...
Dec 15, 2022 Ratings Agencies Increase Focus on "Green Ratings" By Jacob H. Hupart S&P recently purchased Shades of Green, which has been described as "the largest external reviewer of sustainable bond and green...
Dec 13, 2022 Republican SEC Commissioners Continue to Criticize Proposed Climate Disclosures By Jacob H. Hupart Last week, SEC Commissioner Peirce delivered a lengthy speech at the American Enterprise Institute, in which she extensively criticized...
Dec 12, 2022 Raters gonna rate... but there's a bright side! By Daniel B. Guggenheim These days, we seem to be surrounded by cautionary forecasts. For example, in a recent post about U.S. REITs, Fitch Ratings indicated...
Dec 08, 2022 WFH - work from home or work from "home?" By Mintz The global pandemic fostered a huge uptick in remote work as many companies were required to shut their physical offices for months. For...
Dec 08, 2022 Discrimination, Harassment, and Corporate Transparency By Corbin Carter A tech industry titan recently released to the public a 50-page report, drafted by outside legal counsel, which outlines the company's...
Nov 30, 2022 Another legal victory for New England Clean Energy Connect but, unbelievably, it still isn't nearly out of the woods. By Jeff Porter Yesterday Maine's Supreme Judicial Court unanimously held that the 2021 referendum that purported to invalidate a lease essential to the...
Nov 28, 2022 A rose or PFAS by any other name . . . . By Jeff Porter With apologies to Mr. Shakespeare, and respect to the American Water Works Association, PFOS and PFOA, only two of the hundreds of...
Nov 23, 2022 SEC Highlights ESG Enforcement Activity in Annual Report By Jacob H. Hupart The SEC recently announced its yearly summary of enforcement activity. Among the items it chose to highlight were its efforts to enforce...
Nov 23, 2022 Department of Labor Enables Consideration of ESG Factors in ERISA Investments By Jacob H. Hupart Yesterday, the Department of Labor "released a final rule under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) . . . [that]...
Nov 21, 2022 EPA deserves a high grade for its progress implementing its PFAS road map and so does Congress By Jeff Porter As students around the country journey home for Thanksgiving break before final exams, EPA has reported on its progress implementing its...
Nov 17, 2022 Another case in which a non-governmental organization wants a court to tell EPA how to do its job By Jeff Porter Yesterday a three judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia heard from lawyers for the Public...
Nov 14, 2022 Biden Administration Proposes That Federal Contractors Must Disclose GHG Emissions By Jacob H. Hupart Last Thursday, the Biden Administration proposed that all federal contractors (except those receiving less than $7.5 million annually in...
Nov 11, 2022 Harassing EPA in the Courts isn't in our interests even when an NGO like CLF or the CRWA is the Plaintiff By Jeff Porter While many of us were focused on the 2022 elections, the Conservation Law Foundation and the Charles River Watershed Association again...
Nov 08, 2022 Saying EPA's implementation of its PFAS road map is going to "increase legal liability" is like saying seat belts will cause more car accidents! By Jeff Porter I was surprised to see a former EPA official opining that identifying two of the hundreds of forever chemicals known collectively as PFAS...