By Associated Press | January 31, 2022
Peru authorities are investigating Repsol following the oil spill on Jan. 15, which was reported after surging waves caused by the eruption of an underwater volcano near Tonga.
By Alex Harris | January 31, 2022
"This is a big step toward mitigating the effect of climate change on our county," Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Kenneth J. Warren | January 27, 2022
Congress created the Superfund program to address the most contaminated sites in the nation. Enacted in 1980, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) is designed to address waste disposal sites posing a threat to human health and the environment.
By Andrew Maloney | January 24, 2022
Lateral moves in ESG have continued to heat up, as investor and consumer demands have grown to fuel the expansion of the cross-disciplinary practice.
By Nathaniel Bullard | January 21, 2022
Reaching net zero emissions will almost certainly require actively removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
By Linda A. Thompson | January 21, 2022
The EU is expected to propose new sustainable corporate governance legislation that takes into account environmental and human rights concerns. And while it is still unclear exactly what the bill will include, companies around the world are likely to feel the impact. Lawyers say similar bills introduced by individual EU member countries offer clues on what to expect.
Connecticut Law Tribune | News
By Michael Marciano | January 19, 2022
Save the Sound and the University of Connecticut Environmental Law Clinic have sued the Town of Ridgefield over its alleged failure to manage pollution from local waterways, which they claim results in harm to Long Island Sound.
By Jim Turner | January 19, 2022
Leon County Circuit Judge Layne Smith rejected a challenge by environmental groups to how voter-approved conservation money has been spent.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By John C. Coffee Jr. | January 19, 2022
Let us assume for the moment that the SEC can require more than material information (or can convince courts that most ESG disclosures are material). What happens next? Given that the social costs of greenhouse gas emission vastly exceed their private costs to issuers (which is the point at which economists stop), what can lawyers, as specialists in policy engineering, do to bring the two closer to alignment? John C. Coffee Jr. explores these questions in this edition of his Corporate Securities column.
By Allison Dunn | January 18, 2022
In a matter of first impression, the Colorado Court of Appeals said the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in 'Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal,' which dealt with conflict-of-interest accusations against a West Virginia appellate judge, also applies to elected officials who serve in quasi-judicial capacities.
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