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FTC Seeks Public Input on Update to Green Guides for Environmental Claims
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-12-18T13:59:31-05:00Saturday, December 17th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Federal Trade Commission, FTC, Green Guides, green hushing, greenwashing, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
The Federal Trade Commission announced last Wednesday that it is seeking public comment on updates and changes to the Green Guides for the Use of Environmental Claims. In an era when charges of greenwashing and green hushing are proliferating across social media while at the same ...
Maryland is the First State to Regulate Carbon
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-04-21T15:42:49-04:00Saturday, December 10th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Building Energy Performance Standards, Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, ESG, ESG law, GHG, greenhouse gas, IMT, Kaplow, preemption, Stuart Kaplow|
Maryland has enacted the most rigorous state law in the country reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and otherwise addressing ESG stewardship including climate change. Businesses can and should treat this as the greatest responsibility and opportunity of our time. Literally resetting the trajectory of Maryland’s ...
Government Proposes Federal Contractors and Their Suppliers Disclose GHG Emissions
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-12-08T10:17:17-05:00Sunday, December 4th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, ESG law, esg legal solutions, Federal Supplier Climate Risks and Resilience Rule, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
The Federal government is proposing the Federal Supplier Climate Risks and Resilience Rule, which will require major Federal contractors publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate related financial risks and set emissions reduction targets. The implications of this reach far beyond only Federal contractors impacting ...
Net Zero Pledge Standards for Business released at COP27
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-11-26T22:11:40-05:00Saturday, November 26th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: COP27, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, net zero, Stuart Kaplow|
Much has been written in the media about the just concluded UN Climate Conference (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, most of it focusing on the agreement to agree on reparations or more correctly stated, on providing “loss and damage” funding in the future for vulnerable countries ...
Low Embodied Carbon Concrete is Here
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-11-20T18:04:07-05:00Sunday, November 20th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: embodied carbon, ESG, ESG law, GHG, Kaplow, low carbon concrete, low embodied carbon concrete, portland limestone cement, Stuart Kaplow, type 1L|
The golden opportunity in ESG may be in concrete. Embodied carbon refers to the greenhouse gas emissions associated with materials’ manufacturing, transportation, installation, maintenance, and disposal. In a building, there is “upfront” embodied carbon in construction and then operational carbon largely from energy consumption. Embodied ...
Green Hushing versus Confidentiality
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-11-12T21:35:08-05:00Saturday, November 12th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental law, ESG, green hushing, greenhushing, greenwashing, Kaplow, South Pole, Stuart Kaplow|
There is a new answer to the philosophical question, “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear, does it make a sound?” The answer has depended upon your definition of sound. If you define sound as our perceptions of ...
Scope 4 GHG Emissions
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-11-05T21:34:30-04:00Saturday, November 5th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, scope 4 GHG, Stuart Kaplow|
Scope 4 greenhouse gas emissions are not new. They date to 2013 when the Greenhouse Gas Protocol identified “avoided emissions” as emission reductions that occur outside of a product’s lifecycle or value chain, but as a result of the use of that product. It was actually ...
The “Social Cost of Carbon” is Back
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-10-13T17:39:38-04:00Sunday, October 30th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: carbon dioxide, ESG, esg legal solutions, GHG, Kaplow, social cost of carbon, Stuart Kaplow|
After this article was posted, on September 21, 2023 the Biden Administration approved the recommendation of the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases, directing federal government agencies to consider the social cost of greenhouse gases in federal procurement. On November 11, ...