31 Mar, 2022 When it comes to the reach of the Federal Clean Water Act, is rule making a way to find common ground and, if so, why hasn't it worked yet? By Jeff Porter Yesterday EPA Assistant Administrator for Water Radhika Fox told an EPA Advisory Committee EPA remains committed to using Federal rule...
29 Mar, 2022 FERC Chairman Glick's Job at Risk After Advancing Efforts to Combat Climate Change By Jacob H. Hupart The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC"), which regulates the transmission and wholesale sale of electricity and natural gas,...
24 Mar, 2022 AG Healey has a point: If we're serious about renewable energy we have to get to building the infrastructure necessary to transmit it. By Jeff Porter Many of you already know that Massachusetts timely meeting its Greenhouse Gas reduction goals is entirely dependent on our ability to...
23 Mar, 2022 You don't need to wait for EPA to tell you to do the right thing! By Jeff Porter This morning we read that it might take EPA a bit longer than anticipated just a few days ago to bless the new ASTM standard for...
22 Mar, 2022 Making an Impact with Impact/ESG Investing By Daniel B. Guggenheim It is great to see that a social impact/ESG fund can come together quickly, and attract enough interest to be oversubscribed! Hopefully,...
22 Mar, 2022 SEC Issues Proposed Regulation on Mandatory Climate Disclosures By Jacob H. Hupart On March 21, 2022, the SEC finally issued a proposed rule on mandatory climate disclosures. This proposed rule has been expected for...
17 Mar, 2022 Raskin Nomination for Federal Reserve Torpedoed by Conservative Objections to Potential Climate Regulations By Jacob H. Hupart Yesterday, Sarah Bloom Raskin, who had previously served as a Federal Reserve governor and deputy Treasury secretary during the Obama...
17 Mar, 2022 Shareholder Lawsuit Filed Against Shell Board of Directors in the UK Concerning Failure to Prepare for Climate Change By Jacob H. Hupart ClientEarth, an environmental law organization, has filed a shareholder derivative lawsuit in the United Kingdom against Shell's board of...
14 Mar, 2022 Your Standard Environmental Site Assessment May Still Be Skipping Over PFAS By Jeff Porter With all the attention on PFAS over the past few years, you might assume that your standard Environmental Site Assessment would assess...
11 Mar, 2022 SEC to Propose Rules Concerning Mandatory Climate Change Disclosures on March 21 By Jacob H. Hupart According to media reports, the SEC has announced that it will "propose rules mandating disclosure from publicly traded companies about...
11 Mar, 2022 In Vineyard Wind Case DOJ Recognizes Possibility of Informational Injury Standing to Sue By Jeff Porter Earlier this week the Department of Justice filed a motion to dismiss a solar developer's legal challenge to the Vineyard Wind project. ...
10 Mar, 2022 A plan for East Boston is great. But we need one for downtown too! By Jeff Porter Kudos to Shirley Leung of The Boston Globe for concisely recounting the past 15 years of Boston waterfront planning, where it has and...
09 Mar, 2022 Retreating from the ocean may be easy, but that doesn't mean it is the right thing to do. By Jeff Porter The collapse of a section of Newport's Cliff Walk has captured our attention. In a Boston Globe report, Dean Greenstein of Roger...