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By Ben Seal | March 8, 2023
The growing regulatory requirements are putting general counsel at the head of the table when it comes to managing board-level issues around ESG—both a challenge and an opportunity.
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By Anne Bagamery | March 3, 2023
But the judgment did move the ball forward on some aspects of the law, including the express wish that companies and complainants exhaust efforts to work out plans together before taking them to court, lawyers said.
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By Jennigay Coetzer | February 27, 2023
Top lawyers shared their takeaways from the biggest annual African mining investment event, which celebrated its 30th anniversary in Cape Town this month.
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By Alex D'Elia | February 21, 2023
Portugal has established a new legal framework to ensure that renewable energy projects that target decarbonization can be approved faster.
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By Charlotte Johnstone | February 2, 2023
The claim, filed at London's High Court, involves more than 11,000 residents from a Nigerian community—the second such claim levelled against the oil giant.
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By Anne Bagamery | January 15, 2023
New cases and vigorous enforcement will make "duty of vigilance" for the environment a critical area for European corporations, lawyers say.
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By Habiba Cullen-Jafar | January 10, 2023
Ashurst has added an EY partner to head its risk advisory group in the UK.
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By Law.com International | January 4, 2023
Europe's top partners are taking on 2023 with decidedly more optimism than lawyers elsewhere. Does the continent have an ace up its sleeve?
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By Habiba Cullen-Jafar | January 4, 2023
The oil and gas giant is suing the EU in a bid to halt a windfall tax targeting energy profits.
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By Hannah Walker | Rose Walker | November 21, 2022
An Extinction Rebellion group sprayed the London office with fake oil.
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By Amanda Bronstad | March 21, 2024
Jeff Kray, of Marten Law in Seattle, accused of holding up DuPont's $1.19 billion water contamination settlement, called class counsel's sanctions motion an "intimidation tactic" based on a "fantastical conspiracy theory."
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By Lewis Goldshore | March 20, 2024
"The proposal may have a feel-good quality for its advocates, but it is not the right approach in New Jersey," writes environmental attorney Lewis Goldshore.
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By Herschel Vinyard and Jeff Littlejohn | March 20, 2024
A District of Columbia federal district court judge ended the existence of Florida's "404 program" (for protection of federal wetlands) when he published his decision to vacate the EPA's "assumption decision" and its "approval of Florida's assumption application," ruling that the EPA acted illegally when it transferred the federal wetland permitting to the state in 2020.
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By Amanda Bronstad | March 19, 2024
A March 15 sanctions motion accused the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California's lawyers of a "bad-faith course of conduct" that includes libeling class counsel, disseminating the wrong information to class members and filing frivolous objections.
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By Michael B. Gerrard | March 13, 2024
Faced with a severe housing shortage, NYC is exempting the construction of much new housing from the environmental review processes and taking many other steps to encourage such construction throughout the city. Several of these moves will also help the transition away from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
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By Jodi Stein, Eva C. Schneider and Sam Zarkower | March 13, 2024
The authors discuss New York's "City of Yes" zoning amendments pertaining to carbon neutrality.
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By Riley Brennan | March 7, 2024
This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.
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By Victoria Flynn | March 4, 2024
"I would encourage the attorney general and other elected officials who have filed suit against New Jersey businesses to reflect on that decision because of the impact these lawsuits will have on our business community that provides energy to our residents, especially if these lawsuits are unlikely to be able to successfully combat climate change," writes Assemblywoman Victoria Flynn.
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By David G. Mandelbaum | March 4, 2024
There may be some confusion over how "brown" a "brownfield" has to be to qualify, but just the label connotes an increased risk of residual liability to those associated with the site to clean up contamination. Therefore, these tax provisions create a demand for the conventional environmental practice tools that manage that risk.
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By Amanda Bronstad | March 1, 2024
Jurors in Conway County Circuit Court, in Arkansas, gave Monsanto its 11th win on Friday in Roundup trials, and New Castle County Superior Court Judge Vivian Medinilla declared a mistrial after jurors in Delaware were deadlocked.
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