Worldwide: Environment

As reported in our May 29, 2025, memorandum, on May 22, 2025, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) held a public hearing on its proposed per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced two significant reforms to its New Source Review (NSR) permitting program for major sources of air emissions.

What Happened? The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit) recently overturned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) 2023 final rule...

Over the last four months, carbon prices have tumbled nearly 70 percent amid fears that oversupply and lagging economic growth in Europe will drive down demand.

The European Commission’s recent proposals to revise and recast the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, or MiFID, and the Market Abuse Directive, or MAD, include, for the first time, regulating carbon emissions allowances as financial instruments.

On Thursday, May 26, 2011, the Secretary of the Interior announced a joint effort between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ("USFWS") and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Marine Fisheries Service ("NMFS") (collectively, "the Agencies") to identify and implement administrative reforms to the regulatory process used to implement the Endangered Species Act ("ESA").

For accounting leaders and financial reporting teams, Riveron accounting advisory professionals round up the latest insights, examine evolving accounting standards...

As Congress edges closer to another potential government shutdown, questions loom large about how federal agencies will manage critical regulatory responsibilities.

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) took a significant step forward recently in implementing the state's climate disclosure laws: SB 253 (the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act) and SB 261...

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) took a significant step forward recently in implementing the state's climate disclosure laws: SB 253 (the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act) and SB 261...

On September 24, 2025, CARB issued a preliminary list of reporting/covered entities under California's climate disclosure laws SB 253 (the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act) and SB 261 (the Climate-Related Financial Risk Act) (both as modified by SB 219).

In a recent Court of Appeals decision, Plaintiff, Glen Oaks Village Owners, Inc. ("Glen Oaks"), claimed that Defendant, City of New York, the City's Department of Buildings, and the Commissioner of the Department of Buildings ("City") ...