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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Modern Slavery a Key ESG Factor
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-08-20T18:22:32-04:00Sunday, March 20th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, ESG law, esg legal solutions, Kaplow, modern slavery, Stuart Kaplow|
Slavery exists today. The British government recently reported there are more enslaved people today than there have been at any time in history! And if you doubt that modern slavery is here and now, 20 days ago, on March 1st, U.S. Customs and Border Protection ...
SEC Chair Tweets about Upcoming ESG Regulation
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-08-20T18:23:31-04:00Saturday, March 12th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, ESG law, Investment Company Act of 1940, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
ESG law is emergent and fast evolving such that today, the best sources are blogs and Twitter, not bound statutes and printed law reviews. Last week U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler Tweeted about the future of ESG regulation. You do not need ...
Ukraine is Now a Real ESG Issue
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-03-05T20:33:50-05:00Saturday, March 5th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental social governance, ESG, ESG law, esg legal solutions, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, MSCI, Stuart Kaplow|
While there has been near universal condemnation of the war against Ukraine by Russia, and our empathy is unequivocally with the people of Ukraine, this invasion of a sovereign nation, something that echoes the darkest days in European history, today presents an issue of ESG. ...
Zero Waste in an Era of Net Zero Everything
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-02-26T22:49:42-05:00Saturday, February 26th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, ESG law, esg legal solutions, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
Despite that the Zero Waste movement peaked in about 1998, in the modern context of Net Zero from Net Zero Energy to Net Zero Carbon, we are today with surprising frequency asked about a business being able to claim it is Zero Waste. In a ...