Governor Newsom has signed the Voluntary Carbon Market Disclosures Act, a law intended to combat “greenwashing” by requiring disclosure on net zero, carbon neutrality and emissions re...
Under a pair of California bills poised to become law, many large U.S. companies will be required to make broad-based climate-related disclosures starting as early as 2026. Once finalized...
On May 11, 2023, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposed rule to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from new and existing fossil fuel-fired power plants. The rule w...
On March 14, 2023, the U.S. EPA for the first time proposed public drinking water limits on six types of PFAS – a ubiquitous group of chemicals found in a broad array of products and in...
On November 11, 2022, at the United Nations Climate Conference, President Biden announced EPA’s supplemental proposal to broaden, clarify and strengthen its November 2021 proposed regul...
On August 16, 2022, President Biden is expected to sign the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), an energy and healthcare bill that includes approximately $369 billion in tax credits an...
This update provides a basic primer on the origins and implications of the major questions doctrine, which has been recently invoked in a 6-3 opinion written by Chief Justice Roberts stri...
On June 30, 2022, the Supreme Court in West Virginia v. EPA struck down the Clean Power Plan, concluding that the rule’s mandate that power companies shift from coal to natural gas and ...
Addressing climate change is one of the highest priorities of the Biden administration, and the pace of policy developments has been increasing and is expected to continue to increase ove...
The long-expected but controversial proposal would require disclosure of climate-related risks, greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related financial metrics. If adopted, the proposal wo...
