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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 ...
White House to Define Zero Emission Building
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-10-01T21:04:42-04:00Sunday, October 1st, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Ali Zaidi, Kaplow, LEED, net zero, Stuart Kaplow, zero emission, zero emission building|
Last Thursday, White House National Climate Adviser Ali Zaidi announced that the federal government will define what is a “zero emission” building. The announcement was made at the U.S. Green Building Council's annual Greenbuild conference and expo in Washington DC, in a live on stage ...
Unplugged Truth: Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Charging Your Smartphone
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-09-23T19:49:32-04:00Saturday, September 23rd, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: carbon dioxide, decarbonize, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
At a time when government is mandating building owners drastically reduce GHG emissions and plug loads account for as much as 50% of energy consumption in offices, when building occupants are put on an energy diet will charging smartphones be banned from the office? Which ...
California Passes Groundbreaking Climate Disclosure Bills
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-10-08T21:49:02-04:00Saturday, September 16th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: California Corporate Data Accountability Act, GHG, Greenhouse Gases Climate Related Financial Risk Reporting, Kaplow, sb 253, SB 261, scope 3, Stuart Kaplow|
On October 7, 2023, Governor Gavin Newsom signed both SB 253 and SB 261, the two bills described in this article, issuing signing memoranda for each that are available from the links above. In what has been characterized as a win for the planet but ...
Navigating the Urban Landscape: London’s Low Emission Zone vs. NYC Congestion Pricing
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-09-10T14:05:26-04:00Sunday, September 10th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: congestion pricing, ESG, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, London low emission zone, Stuart Kaplow|
In an era where climate concerns including greenhouse gas emissions from cars are at the forefront of discussions, major cities around the world are taking innovative steps to address this challenge or as others see it, waging a war on cars (the innovation that over ...
US Imposes Duties on Southeast Asia Solar Panel Makers Evading China Tariffs
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-09-03T17:51:08-04:00Sunday, September 3rd, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Kaplow, solar panel, Stuart Kaplow, Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act|
On August 18, 2023, the United States government announced that solar panels, cells, and modules completed in Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, or Vietnam using components from China and exported to the U.S., are circumventing the more than decade old antidumping tariffs on solar panels from China. ...
Launch of the Nature Crime Alliance
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-08-26T22:24:16-04:00Saturday, August 26th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: biodiversity degradation, ESG, illegal logging, Kaplow, modern slavery, Nature Crime Alliance, Stuart Kaplow, sustainability law|
Last week saw the launch of the Nature Crime Alliance, a new, multi sector approach to fighting criminal forms of logging, mining, wildlife trade, land conversion, crimes associated with fishing, and the illegal activities with which they converge. The Alliance is significant because this is ...