Jun 27, 2024 Republican Lawmakers Submit Amicus Brief Urging Eighth Circuit to Void SEC's Mandatory Climate Disclosure Rule By Jacob H. Hupart On June 25, 2024, thirty-five Republican legislators, including seventeen senators and eighteen representatives, filed an amicus brief in...
Jun 24, 2024 Whenever this Supreme Court agrees to review a 9th Circuit interpretation of a law, the outcome is nearly certain. This NEPA case is no exception. By Jeff Porter This morning our nation's highest court agreed to hear an appeal by seven Utah Counties and a railroad company of a DC Circuit Court of...
Jun 20, 2024 EPA and the Corps have won one in North Carolina but their most recent Waters of the United States rule isn't nearly out of the woods yet. By Jeff Porter Judge Boyle of the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina has denied the Pacific Legal Foundation's client an...
Jun 18, 2024 The North Atlantic Right Whales deserve our best effort to save them, and the high-speed ferry plan doesn't seem to be that. By Jeff Porter The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is pressing ahead with its plan to ban Fast Ferries between the Massachusetts...
Jun 12, 2024 Brian McGrory has a good point about the resolution of the Nantucket Clam Shack NIMBY controversy, but there's another lesson to be learned here By Jeff Porter Some of you may recall my earlier reports on Nantucket NIMBYs' efforts to deny local Chef Gabriel Frasca the opportunity to deliver fried...
Jun 11, 2024 Has ESG Turned the Boardroom into an Escape Room? By Jennifer B. Rubin For those of you who have never participated in an escape room, it is a real-life game that confines a group of people (usually friends,...
Jun 10, 2024 In Honor of Pride Month By Stephen M. Osborn There was a time when I thought marriage rights were not my issue. I am a heterosexual man, who grew up in San Francisco with acceptance...
Jun 10, 2024 Removal of Commissioners, ALJs Does Not Offend Separation of Powers: Tenth Circuit By Sherwet Witherington Charles A. Samuels When the CPSC finds that a product is defective and constitutes a substantial product hazard, it will ask a company to voluntarily...
Jun 07, 2024 Congressional Democrats Urge SEC Action on Climate Disclosures By Jacob H. Hupart On June 4, 2024, a number of Congressional Democrats (10 Senators; 28 Congressmen) sent a letter to Chairman Gensler of the Securities &...
Jun 06, 2024 These Environmental NGOs should stick to trying to end the climate crisis and not stoke skepticism about our justice system. By Jeff Porter I was sad to see the Law 360 report that a coalition of environmental and human rights NGOs have petitioned President Biden to pardon...
Jun 06, 2024 Eleventh Circuit Rules Corporate Grant Contest for Black Women Is Racially Discriminatory and Violates U.S. Constitution By Jacob H. Hupart On Monday, June 3, 2024, the Eleventh Circuit of Appeals held that the “Fearless Strivers Grant Contest, an entrepreneurship funding...
Jun 06, 2024 Legal Challenge to New York City's Local Law 97 Reinstated By Appellate Court By Jacob H. Hupart About five years ago, the New York City Council enacted Local Law 97, which imposes strict restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions for...
Jun 06, 2024 Another Major European Bank Withdraws From Fossil Fuel Financing By Jacob H. Hupart Credit Agricole SA, the second-largest bank in France, will no longer participate in fossil fuel financing. Specifically, a spokesperson...
Jun 04, 2024 Environmental Groups Drop Challenge to SEC Climate Disclosure Rule By Jacob H. Hupart When the SEC announced its mandatory climate disclosure rule on March 6, 2024, this regulation was immediately challenged by parties on...
Jun 03, 2024 A Louisiana Judge may strike down another EPA Clean Water Act regulation and the Supreme Court would likely see it the same way. By Jeff Porter Several “red” states and three energy industry NGOs have filed a motion for summary judgment in their Louisiana Federal Court challenge...