Jun 30, 2023 Now that the Supreme Court has decided Sackett maybe we should leave courts out of the Clean Water Act rule making business for a minute! By Jeff Porter Sam Hess of Inside EPA reports that Idaho, Texas and several NGOs are pressing a District Court Judge in the Lone Star State to decide...
Jun 29, 2023 If a thorn of experience is worth a wilderness of warning then what happened this week in NJ is a whopper of a PFAS thorn By Jeff Porter James Russell Lowell wrote that one thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. This week's nearly 400 million dollar...
Jun 28, 2023 Employee or Independent Contractor? Not so fast… By Mintz The National Labor Relations Board recently issued a decision finding that makeup artists, wig artists and hairstylists of The Atlanta...
Jun 27, 2023 CFTC Asserts Enforcement Authority Over Carbon Markets By Jacob H. Hupart Last week, the CFTC solicited whistleblowers in connection with "potential [] fraud and manipulation" in "voluntary carbon markets,"...
Jun 27, 2023 More than a month after the Supreme Court's Sackett decision, the Army Corps of Engineers still isn't open for business. What's next? By Jeff Porter Sam Hess at Inside EPA reports that the Army Corps of Engineers isn't going to begin issuing Jurisdictional Determinations until after...
Jun 26, 2023 Performance Evaluations as Talk Therapy By Jennifer B. Rubin If 20% of Americans currently live with mental illness as the National Institute of Mental Health reports, and 60% of American adults are...
Jun 23, 2023 SEC Commissioner Proposes Limits to Shareholder Proposals on Environmental and Social Issues By Jacob H. Hupart SEC Commissioner Uyeda, one of two Republican commissioners on the Securities & Exchange Commission, delivered remarks yesterday at the...
Jun 19, 2023 Newsom's package of bills to advance environmental goals alarms environmentalists (ironic, isn't it?) By Jon Welner Last month, Governor Newsom attempted to turbocharge California's efforts to combat climate change: he proposed a package of no less than...
Jun 15, 2023 SEC Climate Change Disclosure Rule Expected in October 2023 By Jacob H. Hupart This week, the Securities & Exchange Commission indicated--through an update to a GSA website --that the proposed climate change...
Jun 08, 2023 Microsoft Xbox Alleged COPPA Violations Costly: $20 Million By Cynthia Larose Blaming a "data retention glitch," Microsoft has agreed to pay the Federal Trade Commission $20 million to settle allegations that the...
Jun 02, 2023 PFAS Manufacturers Continue to Pay Massive Claims But Do They Have Enough Money to Pay Them All? By Jeff Porter Bloomberg is reporting that 3M and the two companies responsible for the liability of what used to be DuPont have agreed to pay $100...
Jun 01, 2023 Who (Actually) is the Boss (Take Two)? The NLRB Takes on Non-Competes By Jennifer B. Rubin A few months ago, we wrote about the NLRB General Counsel's opinion that some non-disparagement and confidentiality provisions in...
Jun 01, 2023 How Does Climate Change Create Financial Risk? Ask Insurance Companies. By Jacob H. Hupart Much of the current debate about ESG initiatives and how companies consider the impact of climate change on their operations appears to...
Jun 01, 2023 Supreme Court Ends Protection for Most Wetlands In The U.S.—But Not In California By Jon Welner The Supreme Court ends protection for most wetlands in the United States... In a sweeping decision, the Supreme Court last week...