9/30/2025 2:34:16 AM Legal Questions for Sustainability Team #5 By Chuck Wehland Emily Goldberg Knox Olga Gidalevitz Q: The California Air Resources Board put our company on a preliminary list of businesses subject to climate reporting under SB 253 and...
9/28/2025 12:53:47 PM Will The EUDR Be Delayed For A Second Time? By Dr. Jürgen Beninca Armelle Sandrin-Deforge Seth Engel Aidan Lawes +1 more... Show less According to news reports, the EU Commission proposed delaying the European Union's Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) for a second time....
9/19/2025 3:58:21 PM EU Court: Investments In Nuclear Energy and Natural Gas Can Qualify As Sustainable By Dr. Jürgen Beninca Armelle Sandrin-Deforge Seth Engel Aidan Lawes +1 more... Show less On September 10, 2025, the European Court of Justice held that the European Commission was entitled to take the view that nuclear and...
9/19/2025 3:55:39 PM New ESG Rules For Textiles in Europe and France By Armelle Sandrin-Deforge Preslava Dilkova On September 9, 2025, the European Parliament adopted a new directive amending the Waste Framework Directive with respect to textiles and...
9/19/2025 11:51:08 AM Upcoming Event: The Extraterritorial Impact of EU ESG Laws - New York Climate Week By Howard Sidman Aidan Lawes Charlotte Taylor How will the EU’s new ESG rules affect companies worldwide—and what legal challenges could arise in the US? Join us in New York to hear...
9/19/2025 11:49:29 AM Eighth Circuit Declines to Advance SEC Climate Disclosure Litigation By Olga Gidalevitz Howard Sidman Ashley Heintz Sarah Levine +1 more... Show less On September 12, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit paused challenges to the SEC’s climate-related disclosure rules....
9/16/2025 11:08:14 AM Court Again Declines to Block California Climate Disclosure Laws, Pauses Case Pending Appeal By Olga Gidalevitz Emily Goldberg Knox Chuck Wehland Howard Sidman +1 more... Show less Back in August, we wrote about a federal court’s refusal to issue a preliminary injunction that would have blocked California’s new...
9/1/2025 8:37:10 PM German Government Follows Up On Promise To Change German Supply Chain Act By Dr. Jürgen Beninca Kevin Wilcock On August 29, 2025, the German Government started the legislative process for an amendment to the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act...
8/24/2025 7:56:14 PM Companies Join the Fray in the Battle of the Proxy Advisors v. Texas By Ferrell Keel Mark Rasmussen Sidney Smith McClung On June 20, 2025, Texas passed SB 2337, a first-of-its-kind regulation of proxy advisors such as ISS and Glass Lewis. SB 2337 requires...
8/23/2025 3:58:27 PM Will the U.S/EU Trade Deal lead to additional changes in European ESG legislation? By Dr. Jürgen Beninca Howard Sidman Aidan Lawes Olga Gidalevitz Seth Engel Armelle Sandrin-Deforge +3 more... Show less As a follow-up to the political agreement reached between U.S. President Donald Trump and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen...
8/14/2025 3:38:15 PM Court Upholds California Climate Disclosure Laws—for Now By Chuck Wehland Howard Sidman Olga Gidalevitz On August 13, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California denied the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s motion for a...
8/9/2025 1:25:45 PM German Federal Cartel Office signs-off on cooperation between pipeline operators By Dr. Jürgen Beninca Kevin Wilcock Like the European Commission in a series of other projects, the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) assessed and signed-off on ESG-related...