Bloomberg LawU.S. Politics Trillion Tree Plan Could Be Centerpiece of GOP Climate Package bloombergenvironment.com - Dean Scott Republicans in Congress said Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s embrace of a global tree-planting initiative could make the proposal a …
Bloomberg LawClimate Change California Climate Cases Against Big Oil on the Line in Hearing bloombergenvironment.com - Ellen M. Gilmer Industry and local government lawyers squared off in another high-stakes climate case Wednesday, arguing over whether California cities and counties …
Bloomberg LawPesticides Trump’s Second War on Regulation May Tie Up EPA in Red Tape bloombergenvironment.com - Cheryl Bolen, Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Elizabeth Wasserman President Donald Trump declared war on regulations in his first term, ordering that for every new rule issued two others had to be eliminated. And …
Bloomberg LawLegal Services INSIGHT: Fundamental Changes Coming to the Legal Industry This Decade bloombergenvironment.com - Jaap Bosman We are at the dawn of the 20-twenties, and although time is a continuum, the turn of a decade is still an occasion that invites to look forward at …
Bloomberg LawFood Packaging State Forecast: Bills to Ban PFAS in Food Packaging, Foam bloombergenvironment.com - Pat Rizzuto Bills to restrict “forever chemicals” in firefighting foam and food packaging are among the legislation that a network of state environmental health …
Bloomberg LawFossil Fuels Trump Touts ‘Trillion Trees’ Plan in State of Union Address bloombergenvironment.com - Amena H. Saiyid, Dean Scott President Donald Trump elevated a global tree-planting initiative to center stage in Tuesday night’s State of the Union address. Trump in his address …
Bloomberg LawU.S. Dept. of Defense Pentagon Watchdog Probes Efforts to Address ‘Forever Chemicals’ bloombergenvironment.com - Andrea Vittorio A military watchdog is opening a probe this month into the Defense Department’s efforts to identify, mitigate, and clean up contamination from …
Bloomberg LawPesticides Trump’s Land Agency May Exempt Plans From Environmental Review bloombergenvironment.com - Bobby Magill The Bureau of Land Management may stop studying how its long-term blueprints for millions of acres of public lands would affect the environment, …
Bloomberg LawFossil Fuels French Lesson Shows Why Governments Shouldn’t Fear a Carbon Tax bloombergenvironment.com - William Horobin France’s recent industrial history may have a lesson for governments balancing climate change and economic demands: carbon taxes can cut greenhouse …
Bloomberg LawInsurance INSIGHT: Tips to Maximize Coverage and Limit Insurers’ Deductions to Defense Cost Invoices bloombergenvironment.com - Mikaela Whitmore It’s a basic tenet of insurance law that a liability insurer has a broad duty to defend its insured against claims that are potentially covered under …
Bloomberg LawWorld Economic Forum INSIGHT: What Baker McKenzie’s Global Chair Learned at Davos bloombergenvironment.com - Milton Cheng Followers of Bloomberg Law’s Twitter feed will have seen that somebody at Bloomberg was kind enough to say they saw a familiar face at Davos. I found …
Bloomberg LawBlockchain INSIGHT: Blockchain Sits on the Cusp of Transforming the Courtroom bloombergenvironment.com - Greg Forst We are living at a time when the reliability of facts and evidence has never been more threatened. The increasing sophistication of advanced …
Bloomberg LawPesticides Fireflies Face Extinction Threats From Habitat Loss, Pesticides bloombergenvironment.com - Adam Allington Add fireflies to the list of insects in massive decline, often called the “insect apocalypse.” That was the broad upshot of a study released today in …
Bloomberg LawPesticides Oil, Gas Booster Sgamma Makes Foes ‘Wish She Were on Our Side’ bloombergenvironment.com - Tripp Baltz To Kathleen Sgamma, the Trump administration’s recent unveiling of a proposal to speed up environmental permitting for infrastructure projects marked …
Bloomberg LawInvesting INSIGHT: SEC Shareholder Proposal Muffles Main Street Voices bloombergenvironment.com - Lisa Woll The Securities and Exchange Commission, despite its mandate to protect investors, has proposed a new rule that would muffle the voices of investors …
Bloomberg LawProject Management INSIGHT: Work Smarter With the Right Contract Management Software bloombergenvironment.com - Olga V. Mack Stephen Hawking could intelligently theorize about ominous black holes and far-away galaxies. But not without powerful telescopes and other equipment. …
Bloomberg LawBlockchain INSIGHT: Blockchain Can Ease Costs From New Maritime Fuel Regulations bloombergenvironment.com - John Monarch The International Maritime Organization enacted new regulations in January that will require seagoing shippers to use a higher-grade fuel with lower …
Bloomberg LawImmigration Trump’s Border Wall Faces Environmental Challenge at High Court bloombergenvironment.com - Ellen M. Gilmer Environmental groups are calling on the Supreme Court to review the legality of the Trump administration’s decision to exempt various border wall …
Bloomberg LawPesticides U.S. EPA Chief of Staff is Headed to Mining Lobby Group (1) bloombergenvironment.com - Ari Natter, Jennifer A. Dlouhy EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s chief of staff is leaving the agency to work for the nation’s top coal mining trade group. Ryan Jackson is stepping …
Bloomberg LawNuclear Waste Canada Nuclear Waste Storage Plan Near Lake Huron Faces Vote bloombergenvironment.com - James Munson U.S. lawmakers from the Great Lakes region are weighing in on the fate of two major Canadian nuclear waste facilities, which could hinge on a vote in …
Bloomberg LawEuropean Union Brexit in Four Pesticides bloombergenvironment.com - Stephen Gardner Post-Brexit regulation of controversial pesticides including glyphosate and neonicotinoids could be test cases for how far the U.K. is prepared to go …
Bloomberg LawLaw INSIGHT: Most General Counsels Gain Experience In-House, Harvard Tops Backgrounds bloombergenvironment.com - Thomas Lewis The job of general counsel is the ultimate combination of legal nous and business acumen, but how do general counsels gain the necessary expertise? …
Bloomberg Law EPA Proposes Continued Use of ‘Bee-Killing’ Insecticides bloombergenvironment.com - Adam Allington The EPA announced Thursday it supports the continued use and registration of neonicotinoids, a class of insecticides linked to declines in bees and …
Bloomberg Law Accidental Bird Kills by Industry Legal Under Interior Plan (1) bloombergenvironment.com - Bobby Magill The Interior Department plans to cement into regulation its 2017 opinion that the accidental killing of migratory birds isn’t a criminal act—a …
Bloomberg LawCarbon Venice Lagoon’s Carbon Sink Eyed as Living Climate Lab bloombergenvironment.com - Janna Brancolini Scientists, economists, and artisans in Venice have joined forces to quantify the economic value of protecting its lagoon as a carbon sink, hoping …
Bloomberg LawLawsuits Litigation Funders Call on Big Law to Collect Global Judgments bloombergenvironment.com - Roy Strom Welcome back to the Big Law Business column on the changing legal marketplace written by me, Roy Strom. This week, we look at how litigation finance …
Bloomberg LawGreen Living INSIGHT: Net Zero Passive Houses Are Answer to Housing Energy Efficiency bloombergenvironment.com - Natalie Leonard The building sector accounts for 50% of all energy used in North America but has not achieved significant improvements in energy efficiency and …
Bloomberg LawNew York State INSIGHT: Don’t Lose a Motion With These Too-Common Mistakes bloombergenvironment.com - Adam H. Schuman, Gene Lee One might expect obvious pratfalls to be avoided in motion practice, yet we repeatedly see the same unforced errors taking place by junior and …
Bloomberg LawPesticides More Meetings Sought on Trump Environmental Permits Rewrite (1) bloombergenvironment.com - Stephen Lee The White House Council on Environmental Quality’s addition of a third public speaking session for its sweeping regulatory rewrite has done little to …