Jul 26, 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...
Jul 26, 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...
Jul 23, 2024 SEC Commissioner Peirce Critiques ESG Reporting Frameworks By Jacob H. Hupart SEC Commissioner Peirce recently delivered a speech where she extensively criticized the recent emphasis on ESG among businesses, in...
Jul 23, 2024 Puerto Rico Launches Climate Tort Lawsuit Against Fossil Fuel Companies By Jacob H. Hupart Puerto Rico has become the latest governmental entity to launch a lawsuit against the major fossil fuel companies concerning tort claims...
Jul 23, 2024 The Demise of the Chevron Doctrine Begins to Impact ESG Jurisprudence By Jacob H. Hupart Last week, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated and remanded the appeal from a lower court's decision upholding the Biden...
Jul 22, 2024 Reading about failed turbine blades & "alkalinity enhancement"? Well we've dealt ourselves a lousy climate hand and don't have the luxury of folding. By Jeff Porter Two Boston Globe stories I read this weekend on the rapidly shrinking island of Nantucket this weekend are worthy of your attention. ...
Jul 09, 2024 The Generalissimo | Remembering Willie Mays By Stephen M. Osborn The San Francisco Giants held a memorial at Oracle Park yesterday for perhaps the greatest baseball player to ever live: Willie Mays. ...
Jul 01, 2024 The Supreme Court's Corner Post opinion is another blow to the Executive Branch of our Federal Government, changing everything we thought we knew. By Jeff Porter Just when Federal agencies and Administrative Law Professors thought it couldn't get any worse, the current majority of our nation's...