31 Aug, 2022 District Courts Continue to Struggle with the Reach of the Clean Water Act, This Time on Cape Cod By Jeff Porter In April of 2020 the Supreme Court of the United States answered a yes or no question with a maybe. The question: does a discharge to...
31 Aug, 2022 Draft SEC Five-Year Strategic Plan Emphasizes Importance of Climate Disclosures By Jacob H. Hupart Recently, the SEC issued its five-year strategic plan for public comment. This strategic plan covers a wide variety of topics, ranging...
30 Aug, 2022 Maine's highest court has given the New England Clean Energy Connect project a map to viability, but it isn't out of the woods yet. By Jeff Porter Maine's Supreme Judicial Court has held that a 2021 referendum that may have killed the New England Clean Energy Connect project may also...
30 Aug, 2022 The DOJ tells the multi-district PFAS litigation Judge what we all already knew -- naming any PFAS "hazardous substances" is a game changer. By Jeff Porter For years almost 2000 plaintiffs have been litigating in Federal Court in South Carolina against dozens of manufacturers and distributors...
29 Aug, 2022 The Workplace of Tomorrow is Now: What is Your Strategy? By Michelle Capezza As we approach Labor Day, and continue to emerge from the pandemic restrictions, return to work (and what that might mean in terms of the...
29 Aug, 2022 Texas Identifies Financial Companies Targeted For Divestment Due to "Energy Boycott" By Jacob H. Hupart On August 24, 2022, the Texas Comptroller published a list of ten financial companies (only one of which is U.S.-based) and approximately...
29 Aug, 2022 Will one PFAS consequence be cities and towns getting out of the water business? By Jeff Porter Now that EPA has designated as "hazardous substances" at least two of the hundreds of "forever chemicals" known collectively as PFAS,...
26 Aug, 2022 It's official. PFOA and PFOS will soon be "hazardous substances" from coast to coast. By Jeff Porter Within days of Office of Management and Budget and Science Advisory Board blessings, EPA has formally proposed that PFOA and PFOS, two of...
26 Aug, 2022 Discussing the NASDAQ Board Diversity Rule Challenge By Mintz Board diversity continues to be a concerted area of focus for companies, investors, regulators and other stakeholders. Progress...
25 Aug, 2022 Should Quiet Quitting Result in Noisy Terminations? By Jennifer B. Rubin Today's Wall Street Journal piece about the "quiet quitting" backlash raises some good points about workplace performance management. ...
25 Aug, 2022 Work From Home No More? By Mintz During the past two and a half years, many white-collar employees worked from home, or, in some cases, from Starbucks, shared work spaces...
25 Aug, 2022 Employers Address "Quiet Quitting" By Corbin Carter You've likely heard about the latest term to enter the workplace zeitgeist - "quiet quitting" - from any number of sources, including the...
25 Aug, 2022 EPA's Science Advisory Board is blessing EPA PFAS basis for setting drinking water standards. They may not be zero but they'll likely be close to it. By Jeff Porter This week EPA's Science Advisory Board issued its final report on EPA's assessment of the risks associated with drinking water containing...
23 Aug, 2022 The Opportunity To Fail By Daniel B. Guggenheim I have enjoyed reading some of the recent press around a large VC investment in the residential rental real estate company launched by...
23 Aug, 2022 The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (California Style) By Jennifer B. Rubin We all know the Staples commercial depicting parental glee as they send their children back to school after a (long) summer break. One...
23 Aug, 2022 EPA hit a PFAS speed bump at the White House Office of Management and Budget but don't expect a detour! By Jeff Porter EPA has been cleared by the White House Office of Management and Budget to list two of the hundreds of chemicals collectively known as...