03 Sep, 2024 Winning by losing. The strategy of the NIMBYs and others trying to thwart wind energy. By Jeff Porter Allie Reed of Bloomberg Law has published a thought-provoking piece on the effect of legal challenges to offshore wind projects and the...
28 Aug, 2024 (Employee) Therapy Anyone? By Jennifer B. Rubin The recent WSJ article about employer-provided in-office therapy sessions raises some good points about destigmatizing mental health in...
19 Aug, 2024 Canada Increases Enforcement Focus on Greenwashing By Jacob H. Hupart As of June 2024, Canada added certain provisions to its Competition Act that explicitly target the practice of greenwashing. In...
19 Aug, 2024 Australia Introduces Climate Disclosure Laws By Jacob H. Hupart Companies in Australia will soon have to abide by a set of significant climate disclosures aligned with the International Sustainability...
19 Aug, 2024 Three Key Takeaways from CFIUS's 2023 Annual Report By Sherwet Witherington Robert Kidwell The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) released its statutorily mandated annual report to congress last month....
15 Aug, 2024 Federal Court Bars Missouri's Anti-ESG Investment Rules By Jacob H. Hupart Yesterday, Judge Bough (W.D. Mo.) issued a decision barring the recent anti-ESG rules Missouri had promulgated that prohibited investment...
15 Aug, 2024 It Costs to Emit Carbon: Interest Rates on European Corporate Debt Increase Based on Carbon Emissions By Jacob H. Hupart Last week, the Dutch central bank released a study that concluded that “[s]ince 2020, a clear price difference has emerged between the...
14 Aug, 2024 Congressional Democrats Press For Integration of Climate-Related Financial Risks in Insurance Regulation By Jacob H. Hupart On August 12, 2024, three Congressional Democrats (Casten (D-IL); Waters (D-CA); and Senator Whitehouse (D-RI)) sent a letter to the...
14 Aug, 2024 State of Hawaii Enters into Climate Change Settlement With Youth Plaintiffs By Jacob H. Hupart On June 24, the State of Hawaii entered into a settlement agreement with a group of thirteen plaintiffs, all minor children, concerning...
13 Aug, 2024 Connecticut Lawsuit Against Major Fossil Fuel Company Survives Motion to Dismiss By Jacob H. Hupart A couple of weeks ago, a lawsuit brought by the State of Connecticut against a major fossil fuel company, alleging various violations of...
13 Aug, 2024 SEC Argues That Climate Disclosure Regulation Survives Demise of the Chevron Doctrine By Jacob H. Hupart Earlier this year, the SEC issued its long-awaited regulation concerning mandatory climate disclosures. As expected, this climate...
12 Aug, 2024 68th US Secretary of State John F. Kerry to Keynote at Mintz’s 2024 Energy Transition Summit By Stephen Chrisos
08 Aug, 2024 Game Changer: Amazon.com is Legally Responsible for Third-Party Seller Recalls (For Now) By Sherwet Witherington Charles A. Samuels On July 30, 2024, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued a Decision and Order against Amazon, finding that Amazon is a...
07 Aug, 2024 State Court Dismisses Climate Change Tort Lawsuit By Jacob H. Hupart About a month ago, one of the myriad climate change tort lawsuits brought by state and local governments against major fossil fuel...
26 Jul, 2024 Governor Newsom Proposes 2-Year Delay to California Climate Disclosure Law By Jacob H. Hupart Governor Newsom has proposed that the implementation of California's mandatory climate disclosure laws--which apply to all companies...
26 Jul, 2024 EPA's exclamation that PFAS are unsafe in minute concentrations is turning out to have serious ramifications for many, including EPA. By Jeff Porter Lara Beaven of Inside PFAS Policy reports that Maine farmers have joined litigation against the Environmental Protection Agency for not...