9/2/2026 8:03:12 PM CARB Opens SB 253 Reporting Intake: The Platform Provides More Than CARB's Guidance By Olga Gidalevitz Howard Sidman On September 1, 2026, the California Air Resources Board (“CARB”) issued guidance for the first reporting cycle under California’s...
9/2/2026 7:55:40 PM Oregon's Paper and Packaging EPR Law Survives the Following Trial By Emily Goldberg Knox Olga Gidalevitz On August 27, 2026, following a five-day bench trial, the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon upheld Oregon's Plastic...
8/11/2026 1:36:48 PM California Court Tentatively Denies Injunction Against Textile EPR Program By Emily Goldberg Knox On August 6, 2026, the Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento, issued a tentative ruling denying a motion for preliminary...
7/23/2026 4:40:43 PM Federal Court Pauses California’s SB 343 Recyclability Labeling Law: What Companies Should Know By Emily Goldberg Knox Olga Gidalevitz On July 14, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California granted a preliminary injunction in California League...
7/23/2026 3:03:09 PM SB 253's 2027 Rules Take Shape: What CARB Previewed At Its July Workshop By Olga Gidalevitz Howard Sidman Emily Goldberg Knox CARB's July 21, 2026, public workshop gave reporting entities their first substantive look at how California's Climate Corporate Data...
7/15/2026 2:56:46 PM EU Commission Completes Deforestation Regulation Simplification Package By Dr. Jürgen Beninca Armelle Sandrin-Deforge Aidan Lawes Seth Engel Bijan Tavakoli Olga Gidalevitz +3 more... Show less On July 13, 2026, the European Commission ("Commission") completed the simplification package for the EU Deforestation Regulation...
7/1/2026 6:31:18 PM EU Forced Labor Regulation: The Time to Prepare is Now By Dr. Jürgen Beninca Bethany Biesenthal Armelle Sandrin-Deforge Aidan Lawes Seth Engel Olga Gidalevitz Bijan Tavakoli +4 more... Show less As the European Commission pointed out on its updated website on the European Union's Forced Labor Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2024/3015)...
6/25/2026 4:30:27 PM CARB Proposes to Defer California’s First SB 253 Emissions Reporting Deadline to November 10, 2026 By Aidan Lawes Howard Sidman Emily Goldberg Knox Olga Gidalevitz Armelle Sandrin-Deforge +2 more... Show less On June 24, 2026, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced that it intends to defer the first-year reporting deadline under...
6/24/2026 11:01:26 PM Seventeen State Attorneys General Challenge California’s SB 54 Plastics Regulations By Emily Goldberg Knox Howard Sidman Olga Gidalevitz Two competing lawsuits now challenge California’s implementation of its Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer...
6/10/2026 10:22:06 PM Environmental Groups Challenge California’s SB 54 Plastics Regulations By Emily Goldberg Knox Olga Gidalevitz On June 2, 2026—one day after producers were required to register or seek an exemption—three major environmental organizations sued...
5/27/2026 8:10:26 PM ExxonMobil is Headed Home By Ferrell Keel Mark Rasmussen ExxonMobil's shareholders have overwhelmingly approved the company's proposal to reincorporate from New Jersey to Texas. More than 70% of...
3/6/2026 7:32:41 PM California Textile EPR—Next Steps for Brands and Retailers Before July 1 By Olga Gidalevitz Emily Goldberg Knox On February 27, 2026, CalRecycle announced that it selected Landbell USA—one of three applicants—as the producer responsibility...