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Recent greenhouse gas Articles
Scope 4 GHG Emissions
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-11-05T21:34:30-04:00Saturday, November 5th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, scope 4 GHG, Stuart Kaplow|
Scope 4 greenhouse gas emissions are not new. They date to 2013 when the Greenhouse Gas Protocol identified “avoided emissions” as emission reductions that occur outside of a product’s lifecycle or value chain, but as a result of the use of that product. It was actually ...
Reducing Your Greenhouse Gas Emissions
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-08-20T18:06:26-04:00Saturday, August 6th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, ESG law, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, LEED, Stuart Kaplow|
As governments enact mandatory greenhouse gas emission laws and as businesses voluntarily make “net zero” pledges, we are increasingly working with clients, first to understand and calculate their GHG emissions, then to implement strategies for efficacious yet frictionless reductions. An example of what businesses are ...
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 ...
A Quick Refresher on the Science of Greenhouse Gas
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-08-25T06:50:18-04:00Saturday, May 21st, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, SB 528, scope 3 GHG, SEC, Stuart Kaplow|
With the federal government and state of Maryland each having announced within days of each other, the mandated disclosure of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, we have received, maybe not surprising, many calls in the last two weeks inquiring “what are GHGs?” and “what are Scope ...
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 ...
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 ...