29 Jan, 2022 Oil & Gas Drilling Licenses Canceled by Federal Judge Due to Climate Change Concerns By Jacob H. Hupart Yesterday, Judge Contreras of the D.C. District Court vacated oil and gas drilling licenses for the Gulf of Mexico issued in connection...
24 Jan, 2022 Just when EPA thought it was putting its Trump Administration WOTUS interpretation behind it, here comes the Supreme Court of the United States! By Jeff Porter Bloomberg Environment is the first to break the news that the United States Supreme Court has granted the wish of the Sacketts of Idaho,...
20 Jan, 2022 Preserving the descendants of now practically extinct species should not be howling at the moon! By Jeff Porter Professor Tracy Hester has penned a really powerful piece on efforts to preserve the descendants of Red Wolves in Texas. In just a few...
19 Jan, 2022 BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Advocates Use of TCFD Climate Disclosures By Jacob H. Hupart In his annual letter to CEOs, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink asked that CEOs "issue reports consistent with the Task Force on Climate-related...
19 Jan, 2022 Will Rogers, Farmers and Waters of the United States By Jeff Porter The social commentator Will Rogers famously said that a "farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer." Those words...
18 Jan, 2022 State Street CEO Announces Expectation that Companies Will Issue Climate Disclosures Aligned With TCFD By Jacob H. Hupart Last week, the CEO of State Street Global Advisors--one of the largest investment managers--issued a letter to corporate boards of...
14 Jan, 2022 Reports of SEC Enforcement Activity Concerning ESG Disclosures By Jacob H. Hupart It has been publicly reported that the Dallas office of the SEC is currently engaged in an investigation of ESG disclosures by companies...
13 Jan, 2022 Overturning the 9th Circuit Vacaville Decision Would Restrict Plaintiffs' Misuse of RCRA and That's a GOOD thing! By Jeff Porter The Natural Resources Defense Council has told the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that overturning the "faithful application" of RCRA by...
12 Jan, 2022 Delaware's Lawsuit Against Fossil Fuel Companies is Remanded to State Court By Jacob H. Hupart The federal district court in Delaware has remanded the climate change lawsuit filed by the State of Delaware against a variety of fossil...
11 Jan, 2022 NIMBYs Will Now Be Opposed By the Justice Department and Vineyard Wind in Effort to Block Project in Court By Jeff Porter News this morning that a Federal District Court Judge in Massachusetts has granted Vineyard Wind's motion to intervene in the two...
08 Jan, 2022 Vanguard, Inc. Announces Climate Disclosure Expectations for Companies With Significant Coal Exposure By Jacob H. Hupart John Galloway, the global head of investment stewardship at Vanguard, Inc.--one of the preeminent index fund managers in the United...
07 Jan, 2022 A Snowman Analogy for EPA's WOTUS Effort on the First Snowy Day in Boston! By Jeff Porter Lara Beaven, the excellent reporter on all things having to do with the Clean Water Act at Inside EPA, shares what we might expect from...
06 Jan, 2022 Merely Manufacturing PFAS Isn't Enough (Yet) to Make You Responsible for Cleaning Them Up By Jeff Porter This morning we have a seventy five page decision by a Federal District Court Judge in New York dismissing a lawsuit by a water supplier...
05 Jan, 2022 Canada Announces Plan for Mandatory Climate Financial Disclosures By Jacob H. Hupart Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently announced a plan to compel companies to issue climate-related financial disclosures. ...
05 Jan, 2022 The Navy Is On The Hot Seat for Polluting Another Pacific Island! By Jeff Porter News this morning that fuel spills from a Navy depot on the Big Island of Hawaii are allegedly polluting the Island's water supply. This...
04 Jan, 2022 When It Comes To PFAS, Perfect Can Be The Enemy Of Good By Jeff Porter Inside EPA reports that six North Carolina-based NGOs, represented by a prior EPA Deputy Administrator and Senior Policy Counsel, think...