Regulatory efforts designed to implement the President’s Climate Action Plan, previously discussed in this blog, continue to emerge.

Recently released 2011 data indicate that the greenhouse gas emissions from the twenty seven countries in the European Union decreased by 3.3 % while EU Gross Domestic Product grew by 1.6 percent, according to official data compiled by the European Environment Agency.

It is proving very difficult for plaintiffs to survive a motion to dismiss, let alone obtain judicial relief associated with the alleged results of climate change.

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced that a fifth public comment period on proposed updates to the LEED (Leadership and Energy and Environmental Design) green building rating systems will run from October 2, 2012, to December 10, 2012, with submission of the proposed changes to a vote by the USGBC membership scheduled for June 1, 2013.

The recently released 3% Solution: Driving Profits Through Carbon Reduction presents, in one sense, a conceptually obvious point — energy costs money, therefore, if you reduce your energy use, both your costs and your carbon emissions will go down as a result.

Pennsylvania is considering a bill, Senate Bill 258, that would create a presumption of abandonment for certain subsurface rights if those rights are not exercised for 50 years.

EPA's automobile fuel economy rule, federal energy efficiency rules for consumer products and buildings, and incentives for the use of renewable energy generation clearly contributed to these decreases in GHG emissions.

There have been a couple of developments recently that suggest the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is becoming more user friendly.

If the upcoming election results in Democratic control of the White House and Congress, significant changes to the gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer tax regime are likely, and, while...

On October 11, 2019, the leaders of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and Securities...

On 26 August, 2020, the UK Supreme Court decided a standard-essential patent dispute between Huawei and Unwired Planet.

On May 2, 2019, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control released "A Framework for OFAC Compliance Commitments", providing general guidance on the elements OFAC considers ...

These changes reverse liberalizations implemented in 2015 when Cuba was removed from the state sponsors of terrorism list.

In this edition, we cover a Seventh Circuit decision in Mussat v. IQVIA, Inc. and a D.C. Circuit decision in Molock v. Whole Foods Market Group, Inc. We also cover decisions from two district courts.

A prior blog post and Pepper Hamilton LLP Client Alert discussed the issuance of a new report from the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) titled "Alternatives for Managing the Nation’s Complex Contaminated Groundwater Sites."

Specifically, Courtesy Products owns a patent related to single-serving coffee makers provided within a hotel or "lodging establishment."

To constitutional scholars, the line between Alexander Hamilton and the federal judiciary will always connect through The Federalist No. 78...

In Bunge Hamilton Canada, Hamilton, Ontario v United Food and Commercial Workers Canada, Local 175, 2022 CanLII 43, Arbitrator Herman concluded that a vaccination policy...

Addressing the on-sale bar in relation to an offer to make a commercial embodiment by a supplier, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a lower court's summary judgment ruling of invalidity, finding the asserted claims were anticipated by a supplier's offer to make commercial embodiments of a slow-cooker covered by the patent.

Arlan Hamilton is the founder and managing partner of Backstage Capital, a venture capital fund dedicated to minimising funding disparities in tech by investing in high-potential...