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Recent climate change Articles
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|2024-02-10T20:56:10-05:00Saturday, February 10th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: climate change, hockey stick, Kaplow, Mark Steyn, Michael Mann, Rand Simberg, Stuart Kaplow|
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 ...
The Power of Methane: Why Tackling Emissions Is Key to Curbing Climate Change
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-07-08T21:59:54-04:00Saturday, July 8th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: carbon dioxide, climate change, compost, GHG, global warming, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, methane, methane emissions, Stuart Kaplow|
When it comes to combating climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the focus has primarily been on carbon dioxide emissions, however among increasing numbers of those expert in one or more of the natural or physical sciences, the case for prioritizing the reduction or ...
Courts Asked to Compel Government Action on Climate Change
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-08-15T20:10:02-04:00Saturday, June 17th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: climate change, GHG, global warming, Held v. State of Montana, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
After this article was published, on August 14, 2023, Judge Kathy Seeley ruled in favor of the 16 youth plaintiffs in Held v. State of Montana, in a 103 page decision declaring that the state of Montana violated the youth’s constitutional rights, including their rights ...
SEC Longstanding Disclosure Related to Climate Change Remains
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-02-21T17:59:48-05:00Sunday, October 2nd, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: climate change, ESG, Kaplow, SEC, Stuart Kaplow, The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors|
Whilst much of the popular media is all but obsessed with the March 21, 2022, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposed ESG Rules to Enhance and Standardize Climate-Related Disclosures that will among other matters require companies for the first time to disclose greenhouse gas emission ...