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...
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...
7/25/2025 3:53:47 PM New York Legislature Targets Real Estate Lenders To Lower Rents By Hesh Parlikad David Paulson Michael Riess Tito Escobar +1 more... Show less In an effort to protect small businesses from high rents, on June 13, both houses of New York's legislature passed a bill, S1163, that...
7/25/2025 2:17:00 PM Legal Questions for Your Sustainability Team #3 By Chuck Wehland Olga Gidalevitz This series of posts seeks to identify legal questions that can add definition and value to the good work that sustainability teams are...
6/18/2025 3:49:48 PM SEC Withdraws Proposed ESG Disclosure and Shareholder Submission Rules By Amanda Dollinger In a significant but not unsurprising policy shift, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced the withdrawal of...
4/10/2025 6:28:31 PM Trump Issues Orders to Block State Climate Laws By Amanda Dollinger Olga Gidalevitz On April 8, 2025, President Trump issued a series of executive orders directing the federal government to analyze state-level climate...
4/3/2025 5:49:13 AM OCC Ends Climate Risk Guidance for Large Banks By Amanda Dollinger In a recent shift, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has officially ended its climate risk guidance for large U.S....
3/27/2025 6:01:00 PM SEC Abandons Defense of Climate Disclosure Rules By Ashley Heintz Amanda Dollinger The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to halt its defense of the climate disclosure rules introduced under the...
3/27/2025 9:36:20 AM Tensions Rise Between EU and U.S. Law By Seth Engel Howard Sidman As currently drafted, the PROTECT USA Act, introduced on March 12, 2025, may have the unintended impact of creating a significant tension...