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Recent Environmental Law Articles

12Jun, 2022

Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act to be Enforced June 21

By |Sunday, June 12th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , |

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 ...

11Jun, 2022

Glossary of Greenhouse Gas Terms

By |Saturday, June 11th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , |

With proposed federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions by the Securities and Exchange Commission requiring GHG disclosure and new state statutes, including a new Maryland law that requires not only disclosure, but also a mandated reduction in GHG emissions, a greater appreciation of the subject ...

29May, 2022

SEC Charges Mining Company with Misleading Investors in its ESG Disclosures

By |Sunday, May 29th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , |

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last month charged Vale S.A., a publicly traded Brazilian mining company and one of the world’s largest iron ore producers, with making false and misleading claims about the safety of the Brumadinho dam including through its environmental, social, and ...

22May, 2022

SEC Extends Comment Period for Proposed Rules on ESG Related Disclosures

By |Sunday, May 22nd, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , |

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 rule discussed ...

21May, 2022

A Quick Refresher on the Science of Greenhouse Gas

By |Saturday, May 21st, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , |

With the federal government and state of Maryland each having announced within days of each other, the mandated disclosure of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, we have received, maybe not surprising, many calls in the last two weeks inquiring “what are GHGs?” and “what are Scope ...

23Apr, 2022

You Should Comment on the SEC’s Transformative Proposed ESG Rule

By |Saturday, April 23rd, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , |

Note, after this was posted, the SEC extended the public comment period on the proposed rulemaking to enhance and standardize climate related disclosures from the originally scheduled close date of May 20, 2022 until June 17, 2022. We posted some weeks ago when the U.S. ...

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