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Recent ESG Articles
Glossary of Greenhouse Gas Terms
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-08-20T18:13:54-04:00Saturday, June 11th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, ESG law, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, SB 528, scope 3 GHG, Stuart Kaplow|
With proposed federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions by the Securities and Exchange Commission requiring GHG disclosure and new state statutes, including a new Maryland law that requires not only disclosure, but also a mandated reduction in GHG emissions, a greater appreciation of the subject ...
SEC Charges Mining Company with Misleading Investors in its ESG Disclosures
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-05-29T20:05:51-04:00Sunday, May 29th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, esg legal solutions, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow, sustainability law|
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 ...
SEC Extends Comment Period for Proposed Rules on ESG Related Disclosures
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-10-09T21:15:06-04:00Sunday, May 22nd, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, ESG law, esg legal solutions, GHG, Kaplow, scope 3 GHG, SEC|
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 ...
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 ...