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EPA Designates PFOA and PFOS as Hazardous Substances under Superfund Law
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-04-20T21:37:58-04:00Saturday, April 20th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ASTM E1527-21, CERCLA, Kaplow, PFAS, PFOA, PFOS, Phase 1 environmental site assessment, Phase l environmental site assessment, Stuart Kaplow, Superfund|
In a landmark regulatory move, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has taken decisive action to designate perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) as hazardous substances under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), commonly known as the Superfund law. This final ...
Federal Government Finalizes New Efficiency Standards for Lightbulbs
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-04-13T20:57:07-04:00Saturday, April 13th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: CFL, EPCA, general service lamps, incandescent light, Kaplow, LED, light emitting diodes, Stuart Kaplow|
One hundred and forty three years after Thomas Edison received his patent for the incandescent lamp, the most important invention in history, illuminating the way for the universal use of electric light, last Friday the U.S. Department of Energy finalized new energy efficiency standards for ...
2024 IECC is Final After Addressing Preemption Issues
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-04-06T18:56:48-04:00Saturday, April 6th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: 2024 IECC, 2024 International Energy Conservation Code, all electric building, all-electric commercial, all-electric residential, Energy Policy and Conservation Act, EPCA, IECC, International Energy Conservation Code, Kaplow, preemption, solar readiness, Stuart Kaplow|
On March 18, 2024, the International Code Council Board of Directors voted to affirm in part and reject in part nine appeals filed by five appellants to a draft of the commercial and residential editions of the 2024 International Energy Conservation Code. The Board expressly ...
Settlement Portends Broad Failure in Attempts to Ban Natural Gas
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-03-31T16:14:24-04:00Saturday, March 30th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: ban natural gas, BEPS, building energy performance standard, California Restaurant Association, City of Berkeley, Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, Energy Policy and Conservation Act, EPCA, Kaplow, natural gas, preemption, SB 528, Stuart Kaplow|
The City of Berkeley is going to repeal its regulation that prohibits the installation of natural gas piping within newly constructed buildings. Last week the California Restaurant Association announced that the group and the City of Berkeley entered into a settlement agreement immediately halting enforcement ...
SEC Climate Disclosure Rule Stay and Venue Now in the 8th Circuit
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-04-05T06:51:55-04:00Saturday, March 23rd, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: climate change, GHG, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, SEC Final Rule, Stuart Kaplow, The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors|
After this article was posted, on April 4, 2024, the SEC, noting that it has discretion to stay its rules pending judicial review if it finds that “justice so requires,” determined to exercise its discretion to stay the Final Rule pending the completion of judicial ...
EV Charger Data Apocalypse
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-03-16T22:18:15-04:00Saturday, March 16th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: data privavcy, electric vehicle charger, EV charger, greenhouse gas data, Kaplow, National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure, Stuart Kaplow|
Last week the House of Representatives passed a measure to effectively ban TikTok in the U.S. to protect Americans’ sensitive personal data from exploitation by the People’s Republic of China on national security grounds. The week before President Biden issued an Executive Order establishing protections for ...
SEC Final Rule on Climate Change and GHG Disclosure
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-03-23T21:52:46-04:00Saturday, March 9th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: carbon neutral, carbon offset, climate related disclosure, GHG emission disclosures, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, limited assurance, REC, renewable energy certificate, scope 3, SEC Final Rule, Stuart Kaplow|
After this article was posted, on Friday, March 15, 2024, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an Order granting an Emergency Motion for Administrative Stay and Stay Pending Judicial Review filed by Liberty Energy and Nomad Proppant Services, in one of the nine cases challenging the ...
New York is Coming for Your Cheeseburger with Greenwashing Case
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-03-02T20:59:31-05:00Saturday, March 2nd, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: 2040, beef, GHG, greenhouse gas, greenwashing, JBS USA, Kaplow, Letitia James, net zero, Stuart Kaplow|
This blog may sound like a broken record as we have time and again warned about the risks of a business claiming that they will be “net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040” or the like. For readers who may not have heeded our warnings ...