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As Earth Day 2024 approaches, our Head of Social Responsibility Cindy Godwin spoke with our ESG Director Deborah Praga on how companies can improve their environmental footprint while also boosting...
Exponent
The last decade has delivered numerous catastrophic rain events across the U.S., including a "greater-than-100-year" rain event in Vermont; 1,000-year events in Colorado...
Bracewell
Kevin Ewing led a tight, focused discussion of what matters in the new SEC climate disclosure rule. He discussed the key points of concern, their practical implications for mandatory...
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
On March 6, 2024, the SEC finalized and adopted rules on climate-related disclosures for public companies, including foreign private issuers, that are less onerous than the original proposed rules published by the SEC two years ago...
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
On April 9, Kerri L. Barsh, co-chair of Greenberg Traurig's Environmental Practice, hosted and presented to visitors from Washington, D.C.'s Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security...
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
The Senate voted to overturn the Biden administration's transportation rule requiring local and state transit authorities to set highway greenhouse gas emission restrictions. On the state level
Barnes & Thornburg
From a standing start when the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was enacted in August 2022, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been on a nonstop sprint...
Barnes & Thornburg
On March 29, 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles – Phase 3 for model years 2027 through 2032.
Barnes & Thornburg
DOE's investment of $6 billion in 33 decarbonization projects – the largest such investment in American history – signifies the integral role decarbonization...
Gould & Ratner
The U.S. Department of Energy recently released the first federal blueprint to decarbonize the building sector, which accounts for over a third of the nation's planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.
Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger
As previously posted, in a landmark legal challenge, a coalition led by prominent business federations is challenging California's pioneering climate disclosure laws...
Holland & Knight
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law the Flood Risk Notification Law (P.L. 2023, c.93) on July 3, 2023, amending the Truth-in-Renting Act (P.L. 2001, c.313) and supplementing the Consumer Fraud Act...
Carter Ledyard & Milburn
As we previously reported, in 2022 the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") proposed rules to require issuers to provide information about climate-related...
McLane Middleton, Professional Association
Regulated businesses, civic leaders, and the public at large should be familiar with the emphasis being placed upon "Environmental Justice" by both the federal and State governments.
Mintz
Today, the SEC issued an order to stay the recently promulgated climate disclosure rule until the courts have the opportunity to judicially review the climate disclosure rule.
Nossaman LLP
On April 2, 2024, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) released the California Water Plan Update 2023 (CWP 2023 Update). DWR's press release dubs
Mayer Brown
In this MB Microtalk video, Mayer Brown's Larry Cunningham goes over governance and management related disclosure requirements in the SEC's recently finalized climate disclosure rules.
Mayer Brown
In this MB Microtalk video, Mayer Brown's Anna Pinedo provides an overview of the SEC's climate disclosure rules.
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Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
In this week's edition, we discuss the EU's continued push to develop its ESG regulatory framework by proposing changes to the regulation of credit ratings agencies to accommodate ESG factors.
Mintz
Today, the European Court of Human Rights issued a decision holding that Switzerland violated the human rights of its citizens by failing to adequately protect them from climate change.
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