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Recent Environmental Law Articles

2Mar, 2024

New York is Coming for Your Cheeseburger with Greenwashing Case

By |Saturday, March 2nd, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

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 ...

24Feb, 2024

Hawaii Considers $25 Climate Tax

By |Saturday, February 24th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , |

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” ...

17Feb, 2024

Defense Contractor Prohibition on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Disclosures

By |Saturday, February 17th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , |

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 ...

10Feb, 2024

Climate Scientist Michael Mann Awarded More than $1 Million in Defamation Case

By |Saturday, February 10th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , |

Last Thursday, in a case filed in 2012 in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, a jury found that Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn defamed Michael Mann, awarding Mann $1 in compensatory damages from each and punitive damages of $1,000 from Simberg and ...

3Feb, 2024

France is an Example of How Not to do Residential Greenhouse Gas Reduction

By |Saturday, February 3rd, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , |

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 ...

30Jan, 2024

BEPS on Hold in Maryland

By |Tuesday, January 30th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , |

On Monday, January 29, 2024, the Maryland legislature's Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive, and Legislative Review (AELR) put a “hold” on the proposed regulations to create the Maryland Building Energy Performance Standards (BEPS) as required by the Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022. A stated ...

27Jan, 2024

National Definition for a Zero Emissions Building

By |Saturday, January 27th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

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 ...

20Jan, 2024

Does evian Water Greenwash?

By |Saturday, January 20th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

Last week United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Nelson Roman ruled that Danone Waters of America, the French multinational that produces evian bottled water, must face trial over greenwashing claims that it wrongly says on the label that the ...

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