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Recent Environmental Law Articles
A Call for Comprehensive and Clearer ESG Disclosures
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:26:40-05:00Sunday, May 30th, 2021|Categories: Environmental Law|
Last Wednesday, with a Dutch court finding Royal Dutch Shell partially responsible for climate change and ordering it to reduce emissions and two environmental activists being voted to Exxon Mobil board at the annual meeting, made clear how dramatically the landscape is shifting for all ...
Maryland to Commit to World Economic Forum’s One Trillion Trees Initiative Tree Planting
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:26:38-05:00Saturday, May 22nd, 2021|Categories: Environmental Law|
The Maryland legislature has enacted and the Governor is expected to sign legislation that will take effect on June 1, 2021 establishing aggressive state tree planting goals and a host of other initiatives rooted in trees, all in an effort to respond to climate change. ...
Two Creeks, a Marsh and Two Lakes are Suing a Florida Real Estate Developer
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:26:37-05:00Monday, May 10th, 2021|Categories: Environmental Law|
Two creeks, a marsh and two lakes are plaintiffs in a first of its kind complaint filed last month against a real estate developer and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Wilde Cypress Branch, Boggy Branch, Crosby Island Marsh, Lake Hart and Lake Mary Jane, ...
Maryland Adopts 42 New Environmental Laws in 2021
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:26:35-05:00Friday, April 23rd, 2021|Categories: Environmental Law|
The 442nd session of the Maryland legislature adjourned on April 12, 2021. There were no balloons dropped from the balconies at sine die, ostensibly because of Covid-19 social distancing there were no high school pages to drop celebratory balloons from the balconies, but it is ...
Covid Pandemic Exposes More Children to Toxic Lead
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:26:34-05:00Monday, March 22nd, 2021|Categories: Environmental Law|
Covid-19 school closures and lockdowns resulted in thousands of children having increased blood lead levels. In a study of this consequence of Covid-19, released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to describe blood lead level testing among young children during the Covid-19 pandemic, ...
SEC to Update Required Climate Related Disclosures
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:26:32-05:00Monday, March 1st, 2021|Categories: Environmental Law|
On February 24, acting chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Allison Herren Lee, offered insight into the future direction of mandatory climate change disclosures and new ESG regulation, when she directed the Division of Corporation Finance to enhance its focus on climate related ...
Rare Earth Metal Theft by Catalytic Converter
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:26:31-05:00Sunday, February 21st, 2021|Categories: Environmental Law|
The theft of catalytic converters to sell for the value of the rare earth metal components is a thing once again. A catalytic converter is a component part of the exhaust system of a fossil fuel motor vehicle that catalyzes, or accelerates the break down ...
EPA 2020 Enforcement Offers Insight
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:26:30-05:00Sunday, February 14th, 2021|Categories: Environmental Law|
The Environmental Protection Agency’s has released the results of its 2020 enforcement and compliance efforts and those results offer significant insight that business can benefit from. In the first 5 months of fiscal year 2020, EPA was on track to significantly exceed traditional numeric metrics ...












