Colleagues in our Intellectual Property & Technology team recently published an article focusing on the Competition and Market Authority’s (“CMA”) greenwashing investigation.
Greenwashing is the use of disingenuous environmental or eco-friendly claims (for example, “natural”, “recyclable”, “organic”) by businesses to market products to consumers. This may be done via “statements, symbols, emblems, logos, graphics
Beyond the prescriptive mandate, these new laws provide a road map for businesses believing that profit should come not from creating the world’s problems, but from solving them.
By Daniel I.Small and Robert S.Whitman
Seyfarth Synopsis: This week, Governor Hochul announced that she will lift the mask-or-vaccinate mandate for nearly all public places of business on February 10, 2022. The New York Department of Labor has now revised its model safety plan under the HERO Act to eliminate the mask requirement in
Jeffrey A. Chester and John Eliason, global co-heads of Greenberg Traurig’s Energy Project Finance Practice, highlight the trends to watch in energy project finance this year. Watch this video and read more here
Reflections on Water, a website and accompanying podcast dedicated to tracking developments in water law and policy, was recently launched by Troutman Pepper’s highly regarded Water Quality and Water Resources practice. Recognized by Chambers USA, attorneys in this practice have advised clients on virtually every issue related to water quality, from strategic planning to permitting, compliance, enforcement defense, and litigation.
Consistent with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) PFAS Strategic Roadmap, EPA is just weeks away from issuing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to designate PFOA and PFOS as hazardous substances under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). EPA forwarded the proposed rule for White House Office of Management and Budget
Proposed changes seek to reflect the integration of sustainability considerations into MiFID II.
By Nicola Higgs, Anne Mainwaring, Dianne Bell, and Charlotte Collins
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is consulting on updates to its Guidelines on the MiFID II suitability requirements, in light of upcoming changes that will embed sustainability considerations into the MiFID II framework. These changes will require firms to consider sustainability preferences as part of the suitability process when providing advisory and portfolio management services. ESMA is considering how it needs to update its Guidelines to reflect these new requirements, in order to assist firms in understanding what is expected of them in an area potentially difficult to navigate given that many clients may have limited understanding of sustainability factors and ESG or sustainability-related products, and that the availability of such products is still reasonably limited.
Throughout the first year of the Biden-Harris Administration, Environmental Justice (EJ) has been a focus of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. As I wrote about in November 2021, since January 2021 EPA has released numerous policies and guidance documents on EJ-related issues and has taken unprecedented actions in connection with permitting reviews and enforcement
The federal Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) requires that once every five years, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) publish a list of unregulated contaminants to be monitored by public water systems (PWS) for a period of time. On December 27, 2021, EPA published its most recent list – the fifth Unregulated Contaminant
Our European Public Policy team is pleased to share with you our monthly newsletter, which looks at key developments in EU sustainability law and policy. This month’s edition includes the following: