11 Oct, 2024 State Court Rules California Has Jurisdiction Over Fossil Fuel Companies In Connection With Climate Change Lawsuits By Jacob H. Hupart Over the past several years, there have been more than three dozen lawsuits launched against the major fossil fuel companies seeking...
20 May, 2024 When it comes to our urgent need for meaningful climate resilience, time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping into the future! By Jeff Porter Over the weekend The Boston Globe reported on the uniquely unfortunate situation in which the City of Boston finds itself as our oceans...
25 Apr, 2024 ACK RAT's attempt to kill the Vineyard Wind Project ended exactly as we knew it would -- in defeat -- but not without damage. By Jeff Porter The First Circuit Court of Appeals has finally ended the Nantucket Residents Against Turbines' lawsuit against the United States Bureau...
25 Mar, 2024 EPA's Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Prevention Rule will almost certainly be challenged and EPA is the underdog in the legal fight to come By Jeff Porter EPA picked another Clean Water Act fight with the United States Supreme Court last week and I don't understand why EPA thinks it is a...
25 Jan, 2024 Delaware Court Significantly Limits the State of Delaware's Climate Change Lawsuit Against Major Fossil Fuel Companies By Jacob H. Hupart On January 9, 2024, a Delaware state court judge issued his opinion on the various motions to dismiss filed in the case brought by the...
08 Dec, 2023 Climate Disclosures Continuing to Increase Among Major Companies By Jacob H. Hupart According to a recent ESG report from the Conference Board, the number of major companies issuing climate change risk factor disclosures...
29 Nov, 2023 Kudos to the Healey-Driscoll Administration for a continued focus on our approaching climate change crisis, but we need to start acting to mitigate it By Jeff Porter The Healey-Driscoll Administration's announcement of its ResilientCoasts Initiative garnered a lot of attention, as it should have. If...
15 Aug, 2023 Montana Judge Rules That Youth Plaintiffs' Right to a Healthy Environment Includes Consideration of the Impact of GHG Emissions and Climate Change By Jacob H. Hupart Today, a state court judge in Montana issued a long-awaited ruling in which the court found that the "Plaintiffs have a fundamental...
08 Aug, 2023 The Nantucket NIMBY's Clam Shack suit and the Martha's Vineyard NIMBY's Vineyard Wind suit seem to be over but these 2 rights don't negate the wrong! By Jeff Porter The dog days of summer are apparently seeing the end of NIMBY lawsuits brought by Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard residents; the former...
25 Jul, 2023 The Boston Globe reports another climate change casualty, it is still way too hard to protect ourselves against rising waters & time is running out. By Jeff Porter The Boston Globe is following the Nantucket Current in reporting on another of the countless casualties of coastal erosion caused by our...
19 Jun, 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...
01 Jun, 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...
16 May, 2023 Supreme Court Rejects Efforts By Fossil Fuel Companies to Litigate Climate Change Issues in Federal Court By Jacob H. Hupart Today, the Supreme Court denied the writ of certiorari filed by the major oil companies in a pair of significant climate change cases. ...
01 Mar, 2023 Antitrust Practitioners Expect Activity With Climate Issues By Jacob H. Hupart As we have noted previously, a number of Republican politicians had previously identified antitrust law as a potential counter to ESG...
17 Feb, 2023 Republican Congressmen Announce ESG Working Group To Counter Federal ESG Regulations By Jacob H. Hupart Last week, the Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry (R-NC), "announced the formation of a Republican...
10 Jan, 2023 Chair Powell States Federal Reserve is Not a "Climate Policymaker" By Jacob H. Hupart Today, Chair Powell of the Federal Reserve delivered a speech at the Symposium of Central Bank Independence in Stockholm, Sweden, in...