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Unraveling California’s Web of Climate Disclosure Laws, Part 3: Voluntary Carbon Market Disclosures Act (AB 1305)

California is forging a path for climate disclosure with its series of related legal frameworks requiring covered entities to disclose climate-related information, supporting documentation for certain net zero claims and financial risk frameworks. In October 2023, California became the first state to enact such broad climate disclosure legislation, with the passage of the: Entities covered … Continue Reading

Unraveling California’s Web of Climate Disclosure Laws, Part 2: Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act (SB 253)

California is forging a path for climate disclosure with its series of related legal frameworks requiring covered entities to disclose climate-related information, supporting documentation for certain net zero claims and financial risk frameworks. In October 2023, California became the first state to enact such broad climate disclosure legislation, with the passage of the: Entities covered … Continue Reading

Unraveling California’s Web of Climate Disclosure Laws, Part 1: Climate-Related Financial Risk Act (SB 261)

California is forging a path for climate disclosure with its series of related legal frameworks requiring covered entities to disclose climate-related information, supporting documentation for certain net zero claims and financial risk frameworks. In October 2023, California became the first state to enact such broad climate disclosure legislation, with the passage of the: Entities covered … Continue Reading

Trump Administration Issues Proposed Rule to Fast-Track Environmental Permitting for Mining Projects

On November 27, 2020, the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council (Permitting Council) issued a proposed rule to add mining as a sector eligible for streamlined permitting under Title 41 of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST-41).  Public comments on the proposed rule are due December 28, 2020. Enacted in 2015, FAST-41 created a new … Continue Reading

Administrative Law Corner: The End of Federal Agency Guidance as We Know It? Not So Fast.

On October 9, 2019, President Trump signed two Executive Orders that could have a few significant impacts on federal government agency guidance documents moving forward. The White House says these two Executive Orders are “combating bureaucratic abuse and holding federal agencies accountable.” Our read is that in many ways the two Executive Orders actually just … Continue Reading
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