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Maryland Resets the Trajectory with Greenhouse Gas Reduction Law

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 and responsibility of our time. Literally resetting the trajectory of … Continue Reading

SEC Climate Risk Rule is Transformative At a Cost

By Stuart Kaplow on March 27, 2022 Posted in ESG, GHG, greenhouse gas

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 include climate related disclosures in their registration statements and periodic … Continue Reading

Is California Going to Ban Cows in the Name of Climate Change?

By Stuart Kaplow on August 21, 2016 Posted in Environmental, State, Sustainability

The California Environmental Protection Agency Air Resources Board has issued a “Proposed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy” that includes the penultimate statement, California’s dairy and livestock industries account for roughly half of the State’s total methane emissions and about five percent of the State’s overall GHG emissions. About half of the emissions from the State’s … Continue Reading

Federal Government Proposes Greenhouse Gas Disclosures from Certain Vendors

By Stuart Kaplow on June 12, 2016 Posted in Codes and Regulations, Environmental, Federal, Sustainability

The Department of Defense, General Services Administration, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration are proposing to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation which will require select government vendors, from landlords to defense contractors, to indicate if and where they publicly disclose greenhouse gas emissions. In 2015, the Obama Administration announced a new target to reduce Federal … Continue Reading

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SEC Climate Risk Rule is Transformative At a Cost

Is California Going to Ban Cows in the Name of Climate Change?

Federal Government Proposes Greenhouse Gas Disclosures from Certain Vendors