Jul 29, 2022 Lots of PFAS news, none of it good. By Jeff Porter A committee of the prestigious National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine this week recommended that the blood of perhaps...
Jul 29, 2022 West Virginia Penalizes Major Companies for Embracing ESG Principles By Jacob H. Hupart Yesterday, the state treasurer of West Virginia formally barred his state from conducting business with five major financial institutions...
Jul 28, 2022 A Diffuse Mission for the SEC's Climate and ESG Task Force? By Jacob H. Hupart On July 20, 2022 the SEC issued a press release concerning the resolution of an administrative proceeding in which the defendants...
Jul 27, 2022 The "Other Shoe Drops" - SEC Investigating Coinbase By Cory Flashner In separate cases last week the DOJ and the SEC charged a former Coinbase employee and two other individuals with wire fraud (DOJ) and...
Jul 26, 2022 Post-Dobbs Landscape for Employers By Corbin Carter Whether driven by political ideology, workforce demands, or other considerations, many employers will want to offer support in light of...
Jul 25, 2022 The Supreme Judicial Court's ruling for the City of Boston will reach many places other than Long Island By Jeff Porter Until today someone appealing a decision by a local conservation commission under both the Massachusetts wetlands protection act and a...
Jul 24, 2022 The UK is taking the nuclear road not taken here. What's our plan? By Jeff Porter News this week that massive ecologically sensitive intake heads are being installed for a new nuclear plant being constructed in...
Jul 23, 2022 President Biden's Remarks on Executive Actions in Support of Climate Change Agenda By Jacob H. Hupart Earlier this week, President Biden delivered a speech identifying certain executive actions he planned to undertake in order to advance...
Jul 21, 2022 As we swelter this summer, two of the three branches of the Federal Government are complaining that the third isn't doing its job. What's next? By Jeff Porter Just a few weeks ago the conservative majority of our nation's Supreme Court said that it is up to Congress to authorize what it...
Jul 13, 2022 The Supreme Judicial Court's Boston Municipal Harbor Plan ruling Is EXACTLY the same as the Supreme Court's West Virginia v. EPA ruling! By Jeff Porter Massachusetts's Supreme Judicial Court has agreed with a Superior Court Judge that the Massachusetts Department of Environmental...
Jul 13, 2022 Now is the time to stress test your RE JVs By Daniel B. Guggenheim We often hear clients say, if you pick the right partner for your real estate joint venture (JV), then the JV agreement can go in a...
Jul 12, 2022 Those Damn Dams Sometimes Aren't Worth the Trouble! By Jeff Porter When Emily Norton, the always ambitious Executive Director of the Charles River Watershed Association, first mentioned the possibility of...
Jul 11, 2022 Bloomberg and John Oliver are both covering the west's water crisis. Perhaps we should pay attention? By Jeff Porter One of the most surprising comments I received on my piece last week about the United States Supreme Court getting out of the...
Jul 07, 2022 Is the CSuite's Political Diversity Important to the Bottom Line? By Jennifer B. Rubin Apparently so, according to an article in today's Wall Street Journal reporting on a study undertaken to explore whether political...
Jul 07, 2022 The Return to Office Battle Continues By Corbin Carter This week, the Boston Globe and Fortune reported on the ongoing return to office battle between employers (many of whom are seeking a...
Jul 06, 2022 European Union Labels Natural Gas and Nuclear Energy "Green" By Jacob H. Hupart The European Parliament has now "endorsed labeling some gas and nuclear energy projects as 'green.'" This designation will now enable...