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EU to Ban Greenwashing and Much More
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-11-25T19:37:23-05:00Saturday, November 25th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: climate neutral, Green Guides, greenwashing, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
The EU Parliament and Council have reached a provisional agreement on new rules to ban misleading environmental marketing claims. The agreement reached on September 19, 2023, updates the existing EU list of banned commercial practices and adds to it several problematic marketing habits characterized as ...
Solar Panels may be Hazardous Waste No More
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-11-19T21:06:17-05:00Saturday, November 18th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Kaplow, solar panel, Stuart Kaplow, universal waste|
Solar panels provide clean energy from the sun, and their prevalence as an energy source has been growing dramatically. In 2020, solar panels provided about 40% of new U.S. electric generation capacity, compared to just 4% in 2010. Overall, more than 3% of electricity in the United States was ...
Greenhouse Gas Data Confidentiality Takes Two Steps Forward
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-11-11T22:01:14-05:00Saturday, November 11th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Delete Act, Freedom of Information Act Exemption 4, GHG data, greenhouse gas data, Kaplow, Revisions and Confidentiality Determinations for Data Elements, SB 362, SB 528, Stuart Kaplow|
Earlier this year, the EPA issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that would amend provisions in its Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule altering data collection including expanding the confidentiality of data collected. Then last month, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the Delete Act overhauling the State’s ...
US Appeals Court Upholds Nasdaq Board Diversity Rule, However
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-11-04T21:43:07-04:00Saturday, November 4th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: board diversity, ESG, Kaplow, LGBTQ+, Nasdaq, Stuart Kaplow, underrepresented minority|
Last week, a federal appeals court upheld Nasdaq’s board diversity rule potentially impacting the large numbers of businesses having initiatives to advance gender and racially diverse talent. Nasdaq Stock Market, LLC proposed a rule that would require companies listed on its stock exchange to have ...
Net Zero, Carbon Offsets and more Now Require Disclosures
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-10-29T17:36:16-04:00Sunday, October 29th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: "voluntary carbon offset", AB No. 1305, carbon offset, greenhushing, greenwashing, Kaplow, net zero, Stuart Kaplow, Voluntary Carbon Market Disclosures|
California has just enacted the Voluntary Carbon Market Disclosures Act which requires the disclosure of specified information about net zero claims, carbon offsets, and more by businesses, including by an untold number of companies located beyond the Golden State’s borders. Businesses need to immediately pay ...
Advantages of Adopting the Model State Indoor Air Quality Act: Prioritizing Human Health Amid Energy Concerns
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-10-22T19:12:24-04:00Saturday, October 21st, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, building energy performance standard, clean air, global warming, IAQ, indoor air quality, Kaplow, LEED, Model State Indoor Air Quality Act, Stuart Kaplow|
The quality of the air we breathe is fundamental to our well being if not life itself. With Americans spending nearly 90% of their lives indoors, the importance of healthy indoor air quality (IAQ) cannot be overstated. In response to the growing concerns about IAQ, ...
Tenants Monetizing their Greenhouse Gas Emission Data
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-10-15T17:05:27-04:00Saturday, October 14th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, building energy performance standard, direct GHG emissions, GHG, GHG emission data, greenhouse gas, SB 528|
In response to new building energy performance standards and other laws requiring reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from buildings, tenants are beginning to monetize their GHG emission data, including their utility data. In recent days we have seen a drugstore chain, a general merchandise retailer, ...
Green Building may be our Best Hope to Repair the Planet
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-10-15T17:45:37-04:00Saturday, October 7th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: "planet is fine", "planet is going to be fine", clean drinking water, esg legal solutions, global warming, green building, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
The de riguer environmental imperative of responding to the immediate threat of global warming through reducing greenhouse gas emissions, to the detriment of other environmental impacts, is simply taking one environmental impact too far. This is not my perspective alone. Most people identify “clean drinking ...