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Recent Environmental Law Articles

16Apr, 2022

Maryland Resets the Trajectory with Greenhouse Gas Reduction Law

By |Saturday, April 16th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

With legislation that became law last week, without the Governor’s signature, 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 opportunity ...

10Apr, 2022

California Racial, Ethnic and LGBT Quotas for Company Boards Ruled Unconstitutional

By |Sunday, April 10th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , |

Last Friday a California court ruled unconstitutional the state’s racial, ethnic, and LGBT quotas for corporate boards of directors. This now voided law had been an ideological lodestone for the “G” (governance) in ESG. Superior Court judge, the Honorable Terry Green, granted the plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment ...

27Mar, 2022

SEC Climate Risk Rule is Transformative At a Cost

By |Sunday, March 27th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , |

Last Monday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission voted 3 to 1 to issue a long awaited proposed new rule to mandate climate risk disclosures by public companies and other businesses in their supply chains. The 510 page proposed rule will require public companies to ...

20Mar, 2022

Modern Slavery a Key ESG Factor

By |Sunday, March 20th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , |

Slavery exists today. The British government recently reported there are more enslaved people today than there have been at any time in history! And if you doubt that modern slavery is here and now, 20 days ago, on March 1st, U.S. Customs and Border Protection ...

12Mar, 2022

SEC Chair Tweets about Upcoming ESG Regulation

By |Saturday, March 12th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , |

ESG law is emergent and fast evolving such that today, the best sources are blogs and Twitter, not bound statutes and printed law reviews. Last week U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler Tweeted about the future of ESG regulation. You do not need ...

26Feb, 2022

Zero Waste in an Era of Net Zero Everything

By |Saturday, February 26th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , |

Despite that the Zero Waste movement peaked in about 1998, in the modern context of Net Zero from Net Zero Energy to Net Zero Carbon, we are today with surprising frequency asked about a business being able to claim it is Zero Waste. In a ...

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