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Recent ESG law Articles
You Should Comment on the SEC’s Transformative Proposed ESG Rule
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-08-20T18:17:56-04:00Saturday, April 23rd, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, ESG law, GHG, greenhouse gas, SEC, The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors|
Note, after this was posted, the SEC extended the public comment period on the proposed rulemaking to enhance and standardize climate related disclosures from the originally scheduled close date of May 20, 2022 until June 17, 2022. We posted some weeks ago when the U.S. ...
Maryland Resets the Trajectory with Greenhouse Gas Reduction Law
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-04-22T18:10:15-04:00Saturday, April 16th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: all-electric, Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, ESG, ESG law, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, preemption, SB 528, Stuart Kaplow|
With legislation that became law last week, without the Governor’s signature, Maryland has enacted the most rigorous state law in the country reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and otherwise addressing ESG stewardship including climate change. Businesses can and should treat this as the greatest opportunity ...
California Racial, Ethnic and LGBT Quotas for Company Boards Ruled Unconstitutional
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-08-20T18:20:25-04:00Sunday, April 10th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: "repair the world", corporate diversity, ESG, ESG law, Maryland HB 1210|
Last Friday a California court ruled unconstitutional the state’s racial, ethnic, and LGBT quotas for corporate boards of directors. This now voided law had been an ideological lodestone for the “G” (governance) in ESG. Superior Court judge, the Honorable Terry Green, granted the plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment ...
Rooney Rule Revised Provides ESG Opportunity
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-08-20T18:21:29-04:00Saturday, April 2nd, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental social governance, ESG, ESG law, Kaplow, Rooney Rule, SEC, Stuart Kaplow|
Last Monday the NFL announced at the owners meeting that it had approved adjustments to the Rooney Rule, first adopted in 2003, “to enhance opportunities for people of color and women for nearly all league and team jobs.” As companies, most that are far afield ...
SEC Climate Risk Rule is Transformative At a Cost
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-08-20T18:12:09-04:00Sunday, March 27th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, ESG law, GHG, greenhouse gas, sustainability law|
Last Monday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission voted 3 to 1 to issue a long awaited proposed new rule to mandate climate risk disclosures by public companies and other businesses in their supply chains. The 510 page proposed rule will require public companies to ...
Modern Slavery a Key ESG Factor
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-08-20T18:22:32-04:00Sunday, March 20th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, ESG law, esg legal solutions, Kaplow, modern slavery, Stuart Kaplow|
Slavery exists today. The British government recently reported there are more enslaved people today than there have been at any time in history! And if you doubt that modern slavery is here and now, 20 days ago, on March 1st, U.S. Customs and Border Protection ...
SEC Chair Tweets about Upcoming ESG Regulation
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-08-20T18:23:31-04:00Saturday, March 12th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, ESG law, Investment Company Act of 1940, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
ESG law is emergent and fast evolving such that today, the best sources are blogs and Twitter, not bound statutes and printed law reviews. Last week U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler Tweeted about the future of ESG regulation. You do not need ...
Ukraine is Now a Real ESG Issue
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-03-05T20:33:50-05:00Saturday, March 5th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental social governance, ESG, ESG law, esg legal solutions, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, MSCI, Stuart Kaplow|
While there has been near universal condemnation of the war against Ukraine by Russia, and our empathy is unequivocally with the people of Ukraine, this invasion of a sovereign nation, something that echoes the darkest days in European history, today presents an issue of ESG. ...