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Welcome to the June Edition of the Geneva Insights Newsletter. In the economic domain, significant events include the UNCTAD forum on digital platforms, multiple WTO committee meetings on technical barriers...

This is a Cross-Post from the Capital Thinking Blog. Please contact Ludmilla Kasulke and Yiannis Vandris with any questions.

On May 13, 2019, a California jury awarded over two billion dollars to a husband and wife who alleged that they each developed cancer as a result of decades of using Monsanto's weed-killer Roundup.

A rapidly emerging wave of litigation is targeting data centers on multiple legal grounds including environmental violations, land use disputes, nuisance claims, tort actions, and civil rights allegations. Legal experts examine the current landscape of these cases and analyze the potential for mass tort, personal injury, and property damage claims that are likely to follow as data center development continues to expand.

Stratton Horres and Karen L. Bashor authored "Finding a Better Way to Resolution," which appeared in the June 2023 posting of CLM Magazine.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced that it is protecting the northern long-eared bat as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.

In this episode of Digging Into Land Use Law, Byron Gee, Willis Hon and Sara Johnson review in detail the recent Supreme Court opinion in City and County of San Francisco...

On July 30, 2018, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will host a workshop to engage stakeholders in a discussion surrounding the development of a study of the economic impacts...

In this article, Duncan Grieve and Jason Halper summarise recent key developments and risk mitigation strategies to help in-house counsel manage greenwashing risk within their organisations.

Other similar initiatives are underway around the world, creating a quickly evolving regulatory landscape.

Investment advisers offering funds in more than one country are accustomed to adapting to different regulatory requirements.

Sonoma County and four other California District Attorney's Offices reached a $5.1 million settlement with Tractor Supply West over allegations of price accuracy violations, unlicensed pesticide sales, and misleading biodegradability claims. The case highlights California's strict enforcement of consumer protection and environmental marketing standards, particularly regarding biodegradability claims that are generally prohibited unless products meet narrow legal exceptions.

This week I had the pleasure of speaking with Ryan N. Schmit, Of Counsel with B&C, and Senior Regulatory Consultant with The Acta Group (Acta®).

The BOEM released its final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement to evaluate the effects of proposed geological and geophysical survey activities.

The National Defense Authorization Act ("NDAA") may be the most important piece of energy and environmental legislation most people have never heard of.

We found out yesterday that EPA is seeking comment on whether or not the Energy policy Act of 2005 bars or just inhibits its ability to deem partial CCS adequately demonstrated for purposes of Section 111(b) of the Clean Air Act.

Today the EPA will announce its plan to implement national standards for methane emissions from oil and gas operations.

Judah Prero, Counsel at Arnold & Porter in the firm's environmental practice group, recently had an in-depth conversation with Dr. Michal Freedhoff ...