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Recent greenhouse gas Articles
Eyeglasses in the Sights of Climate Change Activists
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-09-21T15:07:13-04:00Saturday, September 21st, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: eyeglasses, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
In his recent video, “Can We Stop Global Warming?” Bill Gates provides us with an interesting, if not somewhat alarming, statistic, the average greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from producing a single pair of eyeglasses amount to 8.2 pounds. This figure doesn’t include emissions from glasses ...
California to Delay Corporate Greenhouse Gas Reporting
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-10-14T17:18:33-04:00Saturday, August 31st, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, Climate Related Financial Risk, Corporate Data Accountability Act, environmental attorney Maryland, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, SB 219, Stuart Kaplow|
After this was posted, on September 27, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 219 into law, making changes to California's climate accountability package enacted last year, as described below. In a move that signals a significant shift in the pace of climate reporting laws, ...
New Draft Reproposed Maryland BEPS Regulations Require Net Zero by 2040
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-09-06T14:41:22-04:00Saturday, July 27th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, energy use intensity, EUI, Executive Order 01.01.2024.19, GHG, greenhouse gas, Maryland BEPS, net direct greenhouse gas|
After this was posted, on September 6, 2024, the Maryland Department of the Environment announced the 2023 Building Energy Performance Standards proposed regulation has been withdrawn and new 2024 BEPS action has been proposed. The full text of the proposed regulatory action appears in the ...
How Garbage Disposals Fight Climate Change
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-07-21T18:34:05-04:00Saturday, July 20th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: compost, elastocaloric cooling, food waste, garbage disposal, geoengineering, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, methane, Stuart Kaplow|
In our daily efforts to lead eco friendly lives, we often overlook a humble but powerful tool right in our kitchens, the in sink garbage disposal. It is sad but there is no dispute that more than one third of the food produced in the ...
SEC Climate Disclosure Rule Stay and Venue Now in the 8th Circuit
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-04-05T06:51:55-04:00Saturday, March 23rd, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: climate change, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, SEC Final Rule, Stuart Kaplow, The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors|
After this article was posted, on April 4, 2024, the SEC, noting that it has discretion to stay its rules pending judicial review if it finds that “justice so requires,” determined to exercise its discretion to stay the Final Rule pending the completion of judicial ...
SEC Final Rule on Climate Change and GHG Disclosure
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-03-23T21:52:46-04:00Saturday, March 9th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: carbon neutral, carbon offset, climate related disclosure, GHG emission disclosures, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, limited assurance, REC, renewable energy certificate, scope 3, SEC Final Rule, Stuart Kaplow|
After this article was posted, on Friday, March 15, 2024, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an Order granting an Emergency Motion for Administrative Stay and Stay Pending Judicial Review filed by Liberty Energy and Nomad Proppant Services, in one of the nine cases challenging the ...
New York is Coming for Your Cheeseburger with Greenwashing Case
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-03-02T20:59:31-05:00Saturday, March 2nd, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: 2040, beef, GHG, greenhouse gas, greenwashing, JBS USA, Kaplow, Letitia James, net zero, Stuart Kaplow|
This blog may sound like a broken record as we have time and again warned about the risks of a business claiming that they will be “net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040” or the like. For readers who may not have heeded our warnings ...
Defense Contractor Prohibition on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Disclosures
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-02-18T14:15:08-05:00Saturday, February 17th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, Department of Defense, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
Department of Defense contractors are not permitted to “disclose a greenhouse gas inventory or any other report on greenhouse gas emissions.” As governments across the United States are beginning to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, looking at the back story and teasing out the broad impact ...