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SEC Final Rule on Climate Change and GHG Disclosure
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-03-23T21:52:46-04:00Saturday, March 9th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: carbon neutral, carbon offset, climate related disclosure, GHG emission disclosures, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, limited assurance, REC, renewable energy certificate, scope 3, SEC Final Rule, Stuart Kaplow|
After this article was posted, on Friday, March 15, 2024, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an Order granting an Emergency Motion for Administrative Stay and Stay Pending Judicial Review filed by Liberty Energy and Nomad Proppant Services, in one of the nine cases challenging the ...
New York is Coming for Your Cheeseburger with Greenwashing Case
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-03-02T20:59:31-05:00Saturday, March 2nd, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: 2040, beef, GHG, greenhouse gas, greenwashing, JBS USA, Kaplow, Letitia James, net zero, Stuart Kaplow|
This blog may sound like a broken record as we have time and again warned about the risks of a business claiming that they will be “net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040” or the like. For readers who may not have heeded our warnings ...
Hawaii Considers $25 Climate Tax
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-02-24T19:54:08-05:00Saturday, February 24th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: "climate tax", climate change, Hawaii, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
The Hawaii legislature held a hearing last Friday on Governor Josh Green’s bill to authorize a $25 tax to create a “special fund to prevent climate crises and more effectively respond to climate crises when they occur.” The climate levy will be on “transient accommodations” ...
Defense Contractor Prohibition on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Disclosures
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-02-18T14:15:08-05:00Saturday, February 17th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, Department of Defense, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
Department of Defense contractors are not permitted to “disclose a greenhouse gas inventory or any other report on greenhouse gas emissions.” As governments across the United States are beginning to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, looking at the back story and teasing out the broad impact ...
Climate Scientist Michael Mann Awarded More than $1 Million in Defamation Case
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-01-12T18:51:07-05:00Saturday, February 10th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: climate change, hockey stick, Kaplow, Mark Steyn, Michael Mann, Rand Simberg, Stuart Kaplow|
After this was posted and following a protracted legal battle that lasted more than eight years, on January 8, 2025, the Washington D.C. court ordered University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann to pay National Review, which had been dismissed from the lawsuit (as described ...
France is an Example of How Not to do Residential Greenhouse Gas Reduction
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-02-07T21:51:13-05:00Saturday, February 3rd, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, building energy performance standard, Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
The country that is home to some of the most iconic buildings erected by humankind, from the Eiffel Tower to the Notre Dame Cathedral and the Palace of Versailles is failing its current inhabitants and decimating residential real estate with deeply flawed greenhouse gas emissions ...
BEPS on Hold in Maryland
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-01-14T10:26:36-05:00Tuesday, January 30th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, building energy performance standard, energy use intensity, EUI, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
After this was posted, on January 13, 2025 citizen groups and business associations jointly filed suit in the U.S. District Court against the Secretary of the Maryland Department of the Environment challenging the Maryland BEPS program as preempted by Federal statute and unenforceable as a ...
National Definition for a Zero Emissions Building
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-01-27T19:31:58-05:00Saturday, January 27th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Ali Zaidi, Energy Star NextGen, Kaplow, LEED Zero, net zero, scope 1 greenhouse gas, Stuart Kaplow, zero emission, zero emissions building|
You can provide feedback on the draft national definition for a Zero Emissions Building. The White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy, through the U.S. Department of Energy, is seeking “to create a standardized, verifiable basis for defining a zero emissions building.” A broadly accepted common ...