8/29/2024 4:33:51 PM Litigation Over RMP Rule Paused While EPA Evaluates Petition for Reconsideration By Ben Patton Mary Balaster A.J. Wissinger Sara Eddy +1 more... Show less On July 30, 2024, The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit temporarily halted litigation over the U.S....
3/11/2024 12:34:52 PM SEC Approves Long Awaited Climate Disclosure Rules By Jennifer Smokelin Todd Maiden Ben Patton A.J. Wissinger Peter Trimarchi Mary Balaster Megan Haines Eric Schmoll Sara Eddy +6 more... Show less On March 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) approved the long awaited and controversial Climate-Related Disclosure...
9/21/2023 2:45:20 PM Coming Soon: California Climate Disclosure Bills By Todd Maiden Eric Schmoll Sara Eddy California Governor Gavin Newsom recently pledged to sign two groundbreaking climate disclosure bills into law. These bills will mandate...
3/28/2023 2:06:59 PM Full Value Chain Emission Disclosures – A California ESG Bill Resurrected By Todd Maiden Sara Eddy Eric Schmoll The California Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act (“SB 253”) was recently introduced and passed the state’s Senate Environmental...
11/9/2022 10:25:23 PM California Green Hydrogen Update By Todd Maiden Eric Schmoll As we previously covered, California has been working towards the development of “green hydrogen,” i.e., hydrogen fuel produced by...
11/4/2022 7:52:26 PM Two reasons to expect little progress at COP27 By Jennifer Smokelin Megan Haines Todd Maiden Ben Patton Peter Trimarchi Nicolas Walker Mary Balaster +4 more... Show less We are not expecting further big climate reduction commitments from countries this year at COP27. The leaders of China and Russia (the...
10/13/2022 6:20:29 PM California’s new carbon capture and storage laws By Todd Maiden Eric Schmoll Sara Eddy California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed three bills addressing carbon capture, utilization and storage (“CCUS”) and carbon...
8/24/2022 9:53:02 PM Environmental aspects of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 By Megan Haines Ben Patton Todd Maiden Peter Trimarchi Jennifer Smokelin Casey Snyder +3 more... Show less Introduction President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the Act) into law on August 16, 2022. The Act represents an...
8/23/2022 1:36:49 PM EPA Proposes Expansive Changes to EPA RMP Rule By Ben Patton Mary Balaster A.J. Wissinger As anticipated, on Friday the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a proposed Risk Management Program (RMP) Safer...
2/22/2022 4:47:17 PM California Clean Hydrogen Bill Targets Alternative Energy Sources for Expansion By Todd Maiden Eric Schmoll A new “Clean Hydrogen Bill” (SB 1075, Skinner) has been introduced in the California Legislature as a means of achieving the State’s...
1/28/2022 3:52:25 PM EU banking watchdog publishes rules on banks reporting climate-risk data By Adam Hedley Jake Williams Amber Davies The European Banking Authority (“EBA”) recently published final rules for lenders on how they must publish data on environmental, social...
12/1/2021 8:39:24 PM The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers pauses certain Section 404 nationwide permits By Megan Haines Randa Lewis On November 4, 2021, the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) announced that it is pausing all requests for coverage under 12 nationwide...
11/16/2021 6:45:40 PM Post-COP26: A follow-up briefing on key business issues By Adam Hedley Jennifer Smokelin Prior to COP26, we published an article that identified several issues being discussed at COP26 that could be of critical importance to...
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...
10/8/2021 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...
8/9/2021 7:21:56 PM IPCC releases a portion of updated Climate Report By Jennifer Smokelin Megan Haines Daniella Landers Ben Patton Todd Maiden Adam Hedley +3 more... Show less The first installment of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), which will be...