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12/26/2024 8:21:48 PM New York Climate Change Superfund Act signed into law By Peter Trimarchi On Thursday, December 26th, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Climate Change Superfund Act passed by the State Legislature back...
4/8/2024 8:30:34 PM EPA GHG Rule Could Be the Next "Major Questions" Target By Phillip Babich When the Biden Administration promulgated new GHG emission reduction standards for heavy-duty trucks on March 29, 2024, those of us...
10/10/2023 10:15:45 PM ESG - New York Floats Draft Environmental Justice Permitting Guidance By Peter Trimarchi New York State's Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has issued draft guidance intended to implement provisions of the Climate...
3/9/2023 10:28:36 PM U.S. Department of Energy announces $6 billion in grants for carbon reductions in industrial applications By Peter Trimarchi On March 8th, the United States Department of Energy announced that it is making $6 billion of grants available to developers of...
6/24/2022 6:53:31 PM Regulators step up scrutiny on greenwashing By A.J. Wissinger Todd Maiden Greenwashing, which generally refers to a company making false or misleading claims about the sustainability or...
5/26/2022 9:06:02 PM U.S. Supreme Court Reinstates the Biden Admin's Social Cost of Carbon By Randa Lewis Jennifer Smokelin On May 26, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Biden administration may keep using its social cost of carbon estimate. As we...
4/7/2022 9:25:31 AM 19 Senators Oppose the SEC's Proposed Climate Disclosure Rule By Jennifer Smokelin Randa Lewis As discussed in our prior posts, on March 21, 2022, the SEC released and approved a proposed rulemaking package that would enact sweeping...
3/10/2022 5:23:45 PM SEC to Consider Climate-Related Disclosures By Jennifer Smokelin Randa Lewis On March 10, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it will hold an open meeting on March 21, 2022. The...
2/28/2022 2:22:56 PM Court Orders an Injunction on Biden's Social Cost of Carbon By Jennifer Smokelin Randa Lewis The social cost of carbon is an estimate that policymakers use in accounting for negative externalities that are created through the...
2/4/2022 2:27:38 PM New California report regarding Greenhouse Gas Emissions limits within disadvantaged communities By Todd Maiden Eric Schmoll California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) just released a report titled: Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emission...