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Recent Environmental Law Articles
Greenhouse Gas Data Confidentiality Takes Two Steps Forward
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-11-11T22:01:14-05:00Saturday, November 11th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Delete Act, Freedom of Information Act Exemption 4, GHG data, greenhouse gas data, Kaplow, Revisions and Confidentiality Determinations for Data Elements, SB 362, SB 528, Stuart Kaplow|
Earlier this year, the EPA issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that would amend provisions in its Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule altering data collection including expanding the confidentiality of data collected. Then last month, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the Delete Act overhauling the State’s ...
US Appeals Court Upholds Nasdaq Board Diversity Rule, However
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-11-04T21:43:07-04:00Saturday, November 4th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: board diversity, ESG, Kaplow, LGBTQ+, Nasdaq, Stuart Kaplow, underrepresented minority|
Last week, a federal appeals court upheld Nasdaq’s board diversity rule potentially impacting the large numbers of businesses having initiatives to advance gender and racially diverse talent. Nasdaq Stock Market, LLC proposed a rule that would require companies listed on its stock exchange to have ...
Net Zero, Carbon Offsets and more Now Require Disclosures
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-10-29T17:36:16-04:00Sunday, October 29th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: "voluntary carbon offset", AB No. 1305, carbon offset, greenhushing, greenwashing, Kaplow, net zero, Stuart Kaplow, Voluntary Carbon Market Disclosures|
California has just enacted the Voluntary Carbon Market Disclosures Act which requires the disclosure of specified information about net zero claims, carbon offsets, and more by businesses, including by an untold number of companies located beyond the Golden State’s borders. Businesses need to immediately pay ...
Advantages of Adopting the Model State Indoor Air Quality Act: Prioritizing Human Health Amid Energy Concerns
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-10-22T19:12:24-04:00Saturday, October 21st, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, building energy performance standard, clean air, global warming, IAQ, indoor air quality, Kaplow, LEED, Model State Indoor Air Quality Act, Stuart Kaplow|
The quality of the air we breathe is fundamental to our well being if not life itself. With Americans spending nearly 90% of their lives indoors, the importance of healthy indoor air quality (IAQ) cannot be overstated. In response to the growing concerns about IAQ, ...
Tenants Monetizing their Greenhouse Gas Emission Data
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-10-15T17:05:27-04:00Saturday, October 14th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, building energy performance standard, direct GHG emissions, GHG, GHG emission data, greenhouse gas, SB 528|
In response to new building energy performance standards and other laws requiring reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from buildings, tenants are beginning to monetize their GHG emission data, including their utility data. In recent days we have seen a drugstore chain, a general merchandise retailer, ...
Green Building may be our Best Hope to Repair the Planet
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-10-15T17:45:37-04:00Saturday, October 7th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: "planet is fine", "planet is going to be fine", clean drinking water, esg legal solutions, global warming, green building, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
The de riguer environmental imperative of responding to the immediate threat of global warming through reducing greenhouse gas emissions, to the detriment of other environmental impacts, is simply taking one environmental impact too far. This is not my perspective alone. Most people identify “clean drinking ...
White House to Define Zero Emission Building
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-10-01T21:04:42-04:00Sunday, October 1st, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Ali Zaidi, Kaplow, LEED, net zero, Stuart Kaplow, zero emission, zero emission building|
Last Thursday, White House National Climate Adviser Ali Zaidi announced that the federal government will define what is a “zero emission” building. The announcement was made at the U.S. Green Building Council's annual Greenbuild conference and expo in Washington DC, in a live on stage ...
Unplugged Truth: Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Charging Your Smartphone
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-09-23T19:49:32-04:00Saturday, September 23rd, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: carbon dioxide, decarbonize, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
At a time when government is mandating building owners drastically reduce GHG emissions and plug loads account for as much as 50% of energy consumption in offices, when building occupants are put on an energy diet will charging smartphones be banned from the office? Which ...