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Do Something about Slavery in Your Business Supply Chain
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-08-25T06:46:29-04:00Saturday, July 30th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, Kaplow, modern slavery, slavery, Stuart Kaplow|
Slavery exists in 2022. There is simply no morally defensible reason for not doing everything in our power to end modern slavery. U.S. Customs and Border Protection describes in a May 17, 2022 update, that at any given time, “an estimated 40.3 million people are ...
New Greenwashing Case is Troubling to Future of ESG
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-08-20T18:07:30-04:00Saturday, July 23rd, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, FossielVrij NL, FossielVrij NL v KLM, Green Guides, greenwashing, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
On July 6, FossielVrij NL filed a greenwashing lawsuit in the Amsterdam District Court against Dutch airline KLM. The overseas litigation is troubling because at its core the theory of the case is apocalyptic environmentalism, the belief that unless humans drastically reduce consumption population growth ...
Phase 1 Standard for All Appropriate Inquiries in Limbo
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-08-20T18:42:24-04:00Saturday, July 16th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ASTM E1527-21, Kaplow, Phase 1, Phase 1 environmental site assessment, Stuart Kaplow|
It is hugely significant that the Phase l Environmental Site Assessment standard is in limbo because that assessment is conducted in the vast majority of the 5.6 million commercial real estate transactions each year in the United States (i.e., including for a real estate purchaser ...
Maryland’s New Corporate Diversity Law Violates the Equal Protection Clause
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-08-20T18:08:51-04:00Sunday, July 10th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: corporate diversity, ESG, Kaplow, Maryland HB 1210, Stuart Kaplow|
Corporate diversity is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. Maryland has published, for public comment, regulations implementing the corporate diversity law enacted by the legislature in 2021. But the proposed regulations are unconstitutional on their face, violating the Equal Protection Clause ...
Supreme Court Rules Against EPA Reining in Power of Agencies
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-08-25T06:48:10-04:00Thursday, June 30th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow, Supreme Court, West Virginia v EPA|
In a decision that will rein in agency power across the federal government, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that Congress did not clearly authorize the EPA to adopt broad rules to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from electric utility power plants. Specifically, the high court ...
SEC Alleges BNY Mellon made ESG Misstatements and Omissions
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-08-25T06:49:08-04:00Saturday, June 25th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BNY Mellon, environmental social governance, ESG, ESG law, Kaplow, SEC, Stuart Kaplow|
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged BNY Mellon Investment Adviser, Inc. with misstatements and omissions about ESG considerations for certain mutual funds that it managed. To settle the charges, on May 23, 2022, BNY Mellon Investment Adviser agreed to pay a $1.5 million penalty. The SEC’s ...
SEC Proposes Two Rules as Cairns to Prevent Misleading ESG Claims
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-10-09T21:13:52-04:00Sunday, June 19th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental social governance, ESG, ESG law, Kaplow, SEC, Stuart Kaplow|
On October 7, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reopened the public comment periods, for 14 days from the day the notice is published in the Federal Register, for 11 of its rulemaking releases, some of them viewed as controversial including the rules discussed ...
Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act to be Enforced June 21
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-06-12T18:37:20-04:00Sunday, June 12th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Customs and Border Protection, ESG, ESG law, esg legal solutions, Kaplow, solar panel, Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, Xinjiang|
Congress passed, and on December 23, 2021 President Biden signed into law, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. The new law that will be enforced beginning June 21, 2022 has implications for imported cotton and tomatoes and most significantly for solar panels. The Act, codified ...