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Recent Environmental Law Articles
SEC Assessment of Climate Change Risks Still Mandated
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-02-21T18:02:31-05:00Sunday, August 12th, 2018|Categories: Environmental Law|
While I was on the Baltoro glacier making my way down from K2 in Pakistan earlier this month the Securities and Exchange Commission informed Exxon Mobil Corp. that it closed its investigation into whether the company had misled investors about the risks that climate change ...
Jury Awards Millions in Sustainable Hog Case
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:24:42-05:00Sunday, August 5th, 2018|Categories: Environmental Law|
Last week a jury in federal court awarded more than $470 million to six people who live from one-third of a mile to one mile away from a hog farm, run by Murphy Brown an affiliate of Smithfield Foods, in a rural patch of Pender ...
The Hottest Environmental Trend is Sustainable Business Practices
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:24:41-05:00Sunday, June 24th, 2018|Categories: Environmental Law|
In a dramatic shift the fastest growing environmental issue in 2018 is sustainable business practices. At a time when many issues are politically charged, including environmental matters, a major shift in public opinion is happening. There are dramatic changes ongoing as a consequence of the ...
Green Building that Cleans the Air
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:24:40-05:00Sunday, June 17th, 2018|Categories: Environmental Law|
Today’s green building standards, rating systems and codes are stale, largely based in decades old science and do not go far enough to be efficacious for most business to invest in. This is no longer a genuine debate over the negative environmental impact that buildings ...
Your ENERGY STAR Score is About to Fall Precipitously
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:24:39-05:00Sunday, June 10th, 2018|Categories: Environmental Law|
Building owners that utilize ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager will see a dramatic change in the 1 to 100 ENERGY STAR scores after August 26, 2018. Every score model we reviewed saw a drop in ENERGY STAR score except hotels. You have 75 days to act. ...
European Data Privacy Law Applicable to Green Buildings
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:24:36-05:00Sunday, May 6th, 2018|Categories: Environmental Law|
With the upcoming May 25, 2018 effective date for the new European General Data Protection Regulation, the European Union law drafted to provide greater protections for the personal data of individuals, it is a good time to review and consider the large quantity of data ...
The World is being Forced to Rethink Recycling
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:24:35-05:00Sunday, April 29th, 2018|Categories: Environmental Law|
Maybe not since Plato wrote about the value of reusing waste in the fourth century BC has recycling undergone the wide fluctuation, good and bad, that we are seeing right now. Today, the world has been forced to rethink its approach to waste. China is ...
The Last Straw for a Rational Environmental Policy?
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:24:34-05:00Sunday, April 22nd, 2018|Categories: Environmental Law|
In the wake of the 48th anniversary of Earth Day yesterday, among the hottest environmental issues of the day appears to be criminalizing the plastic drinking straw. The import of the “war on drinking straws” must be true because this week there is a viral ...












