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Recent environmental law Articles
Endangered Northern Long Eared Bat is a Victim of Biodiversity Degradation
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-03-19T23:21:16-04:00Sunday, March 19th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: biodiversity degradation, endangered species act, environmental law, ESG, Kaplow, northern long-eared bat, Stuart Kaplow|
Biodiversity degradation is an existential crisis playing out right now in front of our eyes. Less than a week before the effective date of the uplisting of the northern long-eared bat from threatened to endangered under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...
First State to Authorize Use of the 2021 IgCC
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-01-13T20:33:16-05:00Sunday, January 8th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: 2021 IgCC, environmental law, ESG, GHG, IgCC, Kaplow, net zero, SB 528, Stuart Kaplow|
Maryland is on the cusp of being the first state in the country to authorize use of the new 2021 edition of the International Green Construction Code for public and private building. Many see this cutting edge enactment as crucial to making possible the State’s ...
Reducing GHG Aiming for Net Zero will be the Environmental Issue of 2023
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-01-01T15:20:58-05:00Sunday, January 1st, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: decarbonize, environmental law, ESG, GHG, green building, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, net zero, Stuart Kaplow|
Business owners increasingly understand the need to mitigate climate risk and many companies with forethought are already seizing upon the multi-trillion dollar economic opportunity that accompanies the economy’s transition to Net Zero. Disclosing greenhouse gas emissions and reducing GHG aiming for Net Zero is not ...
Top 10 ESG Blog Posts of 2022
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-12-25T20:44:35-05:00Sunday, December 25th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental law, ESG, ESG law, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, net zero, Stuart Kaplow|
As we look back in this ‘year in review’ at our most read blog posts in 2022, at a time when many have emerged from 2 years of permacrisis to the highs of a future where ESG opportunities are accelerating. This blog is a microcosm ...
Green Hushing versus Confidentiality
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-11-12T21:35:08-05:00Saturday, November 12th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental law, ESG, green hushing, greenhushing, greenwashing, Kaplow, South Pole, Stuart Kaplow|
There is a new answer to the philosophical question, “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear, does it make a sound?” The answer has depended upon your definition of sound. If you define sound as our perceptions of ...