10/28/2021 7:50:38 PM What does success look like at COP26? By Claude Brown As with any multinational showcase meeting, delegates at each COP (and especially its host) want the meeting to be seen as a success. As...
10/21/2021 7:22:02 PM Waiting for OSHA: pending vaccine ETS and increased enforcement By Ben Patton Mary Balaster Jessyka Linton Since President Joe Biden issued his “Path Out of the Pandemic” memorandum and Executive Order 14042 on September 9, 2021, employers have...
10/21/2021 2:39:58 PM COP26 – The benchmarks for its success or failure By Adam Hedley Jennifer Smokelin The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was established at the first Rio Earth Summit in 1992. More than 200...
10/21/2021 2:16:56 PM U.S. EPA releases Roadmap to address PFAS contamination By Todd Maiden Jennifer Smokelin Mary Balaster Casey Snyder +1 more... Show less On October 18, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) Strategic...
10/20/2021 9:17:47 AM UK plan for Waste Shipments updated By Adam Hedley Jennifer Travers The UK plan for shipments of waste (the Plan) has been amended, with the key update being to emphasise that interim disposal operations...
10/19/2021 12:00:24 PM UK plans carbon border adjustment mechanism By Adam Hedley Jennifer Travers Amber Davies Last month, the Environmental Audit Committee (‘EAC’) launched an inquiry into a potential future carbon border adjustment mechanism...
10/18/2021 1:45:15 PM EU proposal to amend the Radio Equipment Directive to require single mobile chargers By Adam Hedley Oliver Rieche On 23 September, the European Commission took a step towards consumers’ convenience and minimising the environmental footprint associated...
10/8/2021 8:06:39 PM American Bar Association article on U.S. Climate Litigation Trends – 2021 update By Jennifer Smokelin Casey Snyder In an article by Casey J. Snyder, Associate at Reed Smith, published by the American Bar Association, we highlighted key U.S. climate...