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Recent climate change Articles
SEC Reverses Course on Defending its Climate Related Disclosure Rule
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-02-15T17:39:27-05:00Saturday, February 15th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: climate change, Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, environmental attorney Maryland, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, SEC Disclosure Related to Climate Change, Stuart Kaplow, The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors|
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has taken a major step toward reversing course on The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors rule (the “Greenhouse Gas Rule”) currently pending in the courts. The Greenhouse Gas Rule adopted by the SEC on March 6, ...
Maryland Government is Coming for Your Fossil Fuel Appliances – Again
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-11-28T17:12:01-05:00Saturday, November 23rd, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: clean heat standard, climate change, environmental attorney Maryland, Kaplow, Maryland Department of the Environment, Maryland environmental lawyer, Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management, Stuart Kaplow, Zero-Emission Heating Equipment Standard|
Maryland is proposing to ban fossil fuel burning equipment in buildings (e.g., furnaces, boilers, water heaters, clothing dryers, etc.) with two new programs, a Clean Heat Standard and Zero-Emission Heating Equipment Standard. Flying in the face of what is being done elsewhere across the country ...
Baltimore’s Climate Change Lawsuit Dismissed
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-07-13T16:54:01-04:00Saturday, July 13th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BP P.L.C., climate change, climate change lawsuit dead, Judge Videtta Brown, Kaplow, Mayor and City Council of Baltimore v. BP P.L.C., Stuart Kaplow|
In an unprecedented decision, a state court has dismissed a lawsuit “for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted” by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore against 25 major fossil fuel companies, which alleged the companies are responsible for a ...
20 States Sue in Supreme Court to Block Climate Tort Actions by California and Others
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-05-28T06:07:54-04:00Tuesday, May 28th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: climate change, climate tort, horizontal separation of powers, Kaplow, steve marshall, Stuart Kaplow|
Last Thursday 20 states filed suit in the U.S. Supreme Court against 5 other states claiming that defendant states’ attempts to dictate the future of the American energy policy through state tort actions, disrupt energy access and threaten federalism. More eloquently stated, more than 100 ...
Appeals Court Finds Climate Change is Not Justiciable
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-05-11T18:33:03-04:00Saturday, May 11th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: climate change, environmental attorney Maryland, Juliana v USA, Juliana v. United States, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, not justiciable, Stuart Kaplow|
The environmental climate change case that has attracted the most attention, Juliana v. United States has come to an unceremonious end and all Americans should be concerned. On May 1, 2024, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered, “The district court is instructed to dismiss ...
SEC Climate Disclosure Rule Stay and Venue Now in the 8th Circuit
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-04-05T06:51:55-04:00Saturday, March 23rd, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: climate change, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, SEC Final Rule, Stuart Kaplow, The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors|
After this article was posted, on April 4, 2024, the SEC, noting that it has discretion to stay its rules pending judicial review if it finds that “justice so requires,” determined to exercise its discretion to stay the Final Rule pending the completion of judicial ...
Hawaii Considers $25 Climate Tax
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-02-24T19:54:08-05:00Saturday, February 24th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: "climate tax", climate change, Hawaii, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
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” ...
Climate Scientist Michael Mann Awarded More than $1 Million in Defamation Case
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-01-12T18:51:07-05:00Saturday, February 10th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: climate change, hockey stick, Kaplow, Mark Steyn, Michael Mann, Rand Simberg, Stuart Kaplow|
After this was posted and following a protracted legal battle that lasted more than eight years, on January 8, 2025, the Washington D.C. court ordered University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann to pay National Review, which had been dismissed from the lawsuit (as described ...