04.18.23
Local or state regulations seeking to decarbonize new buildings by banning natural gas appliances or infrastructure are preempted under federal law according to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
03.20.23
Two proposed climate-related disclosure mandate laws moved closer to becoming law in California.
02.21.23
Mandatory disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions by business operators is coming, one way or another. California legislators continue to press for a change in law that would require disclosures for large businesses that do business in California.
01.10.23
The California Legislative Analyst’s Office criticized the California Air Resources Board’s recent and most sweeping revision of its Scoping Plan to achieve legislatively mandated greenhouse gas reductions.
12.16.22
Calling for foundational reforms in every sector of California’s economy, now the fourth largest in the world, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) on December 15, 2022, adopted the latest and most sweeping version of the “Scoping Plan.”
10.04.22
Health care leaders are operating in an environment of seismic change.
10.03.22
The U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to replace the "significant nexus" test for whether a wetland is jurisdictional under the federal Clean Water Act, focusing instead on a long-standing and equally long-debated statutory qualifier of "adjacency."
04.11.22
The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed a sweeping new disclosure requirement relating to registered companies’ climate-related information.
03.16.22
A mammoth case out of Lake Tahoe affirms a new environmental review obligation for project proponents: Why can’t you do solar?
01.26.22
The Idaho family that upended the Obama administration’s wetlands regime in the Supreme Court is back, much to the dismay of the Biden administration.