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FTC Says Updated Green Guides are Coming
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-09-17T22:43:41-04:00Saturday, September 17th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, Green Guides, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
With allegations of greenwashing all but de rigueur, businesses should be on the alert for the soon to be released Federal Trade Commission’s updated Green Guides. This year companies are being publicly challenged and having their reputations tarnished for greenwashing, in some instances for deceptive ...
EPA Proposes Designating PFAS as Hazardous
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-09-10T21:30:20-04:00Saturday, September 10th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Kaplow, PFAS, PFOA, PFOS, Phase l environmental site assessment, Stuart Kaplow, yeet|
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to designate two of the most widely used per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) as hazardous substances under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), also known as the “Superfund” law. The proposal applies to perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid ...
UN Human Rights Assessment of Uyghurs by China Drives ESG
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-09-20T16:22:13-04:00Saturday, September 3rd, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: forced labor, Kaplow, modern slavery, Stuart Kaplow, Uyghur, Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act|
We have blogged repeatedly that “the elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labor” is a key element, if not singularly the most important principle of a business’s practices. That point was driven home with the release last Wednesday, by The United Nations Human ...
New Maryland Regulation all but Shuts Down Phase II Environmental Site Assessments
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-10-06T06:44:21-04:00Saturday, August 20th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: COMAR 26.10.08.01, Kaplow, maryland department of environment, Maryland environmental lawyer, MDE notice, PFOA, PFOS, Phase ll environmental site assessment, Stuart Kaplow|
The Maryland Department of the Environment has adopted regulations for the first time requiring the person conducting an environmental assessment, even when they are not the owner of the property (e.g., possibly a prospective contract purchaser of land or a consultant engaged in a lending ...
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 ...
Do Something about Slavery in Your Business Supply Chain
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-08-25T06:46:29-04:00Saturday, July 30th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, Kaplow, modern slavery, slavery, Stuart Kaplow|
Slavery exists in 2022. There is simply no morally defensible reason for not doing everything in our power to end modern slavery. U.S. Customs and Border Protection describes in a May 17, 2022 update, that at any given time, “an estimated 40.3 million people are ...
New Greenwashing Case is Troubling to Future of ESG
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-08-20T18:07:30-04:00Saturday, July 23rd, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ESG, FossielVrij NL, FossielVrij NL v KLM, Green Guides, greenwashing, Kaplow, Stuart Kaplow|
On July 6, FossielVrij NL filed a greenwashing lawsuit in the Amsterdam District Court against Dutch airline KLM. The overseas litigation is troubling because at its core the theory of the case is apocalyptic environmentalism, the belief that unless humans drastically reduce consumption population growth ...
Phase 1 Standard for All Appropriate Inquiries in Limbo
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-08-20T18:42:24-04:00Saturday, July 16th, 2022|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ASTM E1527-21, Kaplow, Phase 1, Phase 1 environmental site assessment, Stuart Kaplow|
It is hugely significant that the Phase l Environmental Site Assessment standard is in limbo because that assessment is conducted in the vast majority of the 5.6 million commercial real estate transactions each year in the United States (i.e., including for a real estate purchaser ...