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7Oct, 2023

Green Building may be our Best Hope to Repair the Planet

By |Saturday, October 7th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

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 ...

4Dec, 2022

Government Proposes Federal Contractors and Their Suppliers Disclose GHG Emissions

By |Sunday, December 4th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , |

The Federal government is proposing the Federal Supplier Climate Risks and Resilience Rule, which will require major Federal contractors publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate related financial risks and set emissions reduction targets. The implications of this reach far beyond only Federal contractors impacting ...

30Oct, 2022

The “Social Cost of Carbon” is Back

By |Sunday, October 30th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , |

After this article was posted, on September 21, 2023 the Biden Administration approved the recommendation of the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases, directing federal government agencies to consider the social cost of greenhouse gases in federal procurement. On November 11, ...

15Oct, 2022

The ESG Benefit of Giving Employees Paid Time Off to Work at the Polls

By |Saturday, October 15th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , |

With the U.S. midterm elections just weeks away, increasing numbers of employees are being encouraged to serve civil society helping repair the world. There are a myriad of possible elements in the “S” (Social) component of ESG, but what they have in common is they ...

9Oct, 2022

Selling the Sun: Sale of a House with Solar Panels is Fraught with Peril

By |Sunday, October 9th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , |

There are more than 3 Million houses in the U.S. with solar panels installed on the roof.  The Inflation Protection Act of 2022 extended the 30% federal tax credit for residential solar panels through 2034 which is predicted to more than triple that number of ...

12Jun, 2022

Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act to be Enforced June 21

By |Sunday, June 12th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Congress passed, and on December 23, 2021 President Biden signed into law, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. The new law that will be enforced beginning June 21, 2022 has implications for imported cotton and tomatoes and most significantly for solar panels. The Act, codified ...

29May, 2022

SEC Charges Mining Company with Misleading Investors in its ESG Disclosures

By |Sunday, May 29th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , |

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last month charged Vale S.A., a publicly traded Brazilian mining company and one of the world’s largest iron ore producers, with making false and misleading claims about the safety of the Brumadinho dam including through its environmental, social, and ...

22May, 2022

SEC Extends Comment Period for Proposed Rules on ESG Related Disclosures

By |Sunday, May 22nd, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , |

On October 7, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reopened the public comment periods, for 14 days from the day the notice is published in the Federal Register, for 11 of its rulemaking releases, some of them viewed as controversial including the rule discussed ...

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