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Recent ESG Articles
Executional Greenwashing is a Thing
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-04-02T17:19:39-04:00Sunday, April 2nd, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, executional greenwashing, Gain laundry detergent, green hushing, greenwashing, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
Greenwashing is a term used to describe the marketing tactic of making false or misleading claims about a product or service's environmental benefits. “Executional greenwashing” is a neologism characterizing the way in which a business promotes or executes an environmental initiative, rather than the actual ...
Maryland is Leading the Transition to All Electric Buildings
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-04-21T16:38:39-04:00Sunday, March 26th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: all electric building, all electric building code, ESG, ESG law, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
There is a move toward all electric buildings as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change. The state of Maryland is leading the way in this movement, including several local jurisdictions adopting all electric building code laws. All electric building codes ...
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 ...
The Environmental Catastrophe that is PFAS will see Movement in 2023
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-03-15T06:01:05-04:00Sunday, March 12th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, Kaplow, PFAS, PFOA, PFOS, Stuart Kaplow|
Just two days after this article was posted EPA proposed legally enforceable levels, called Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs), for six PFAS in drinking water. EPA anticipates finalizing the regulation by the end of 2023. The EPA announcement said, “that if fully implemented, the rule will ...
Biden Veto of Repudiation of ESG Worker Savings Rule a Positive for ESG
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-03-05T16:57:23-05:00Sunday, March 5th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Biden veto, ESG, ESG law, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
Last week Congress voted to approve House Joint Resolution 30 seeking to nullify the Department of Labor “ESG Rule” concerning fiduciary duties with respect to employee benefit plans. Under that final rule, issued on December 1, 2022, retirement plan fiduciaries may expressly consider environmental, social, and ...
We Need to do Better to Reduce Food Waste
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-05-29T17:04:22-04:00Sunday, February 26th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, food waste, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, methane emissions, organic material waste, SB 528, Stuart Kaplow|
More than one third of the food produced in the United States is never eaten, wasting not only the food itself but also the resources used to produce it, creating a multitude of environmental externalities. Food waste is the single most common material landfilled in ...
Non Profits can Receive a Direct Payment for 30% of Their Solar Energy System Costs
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-02-19T19:17:16-05:00Sunday, February 19th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, ESG law, Kaplow, non profit, solar panel, Stuart Kaplow|
Despite that The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 was signed into law last August 16 and that it is a broad and wide legislative effort that does a lot in more than 500 pages from lowing prescription drug prices to investing in clean energy, the ...
German Law a Model for Safeguarding Human Rights in Supply Chains
By Stuart Kaplow|2023-02-12T18:53:19-05:00Sunday, February 12th, 2023|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, human rights, Kaplow, LkSG, modern slavery, slavery, Stuart Kaplow, supply chain|
While the new German law does have regulatory ramifications across the globe, in particular for suppliers to German companies, more significant is that it is being heralded as articulating a replicable ESG standard for safeguarding human rights in business supply chains by businesses that believe ...