This development indicates that major investors are willing to bet on expansion of the residential solar market.

According to a December report prepared by the World Wildlife Fund, Ceres, and Calvert Investments, two thirds of Fortune 100 companies have adopted commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase use of renewable energy, or both.

The European Union Parliament has recently rejected an emergency fix to its cap-and-trade program that would temporarily remove some of the oversupply of carbon permits.

The Greenbuild International Conference and Expo will be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on November 20-22 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The RE-Powering America's Land Initiative encourages the placement of renewable energy facilities on contaminated and remediated sites.

Hamilton, a one-time Virginia legislator, was convicted of bribery and extortion, having secured state funding for a local university in exchange for a job.

Use of work e-mail negates spousal privilege.

Celebrity news can sometimes cause fringe but nonetheless important issues to come to the fore. This has been the case recently where Lewis Hamilton's brushes with IP have highlighted a couple

Graeme Hamilton wrote an article for the Focus section of the August 26th edition of the Lawyer's Weekly on whether stiff sentences for white collar offences are here to stay. The conclusion: yes they are.

On 6 December 2017 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) hand­ed down its judg­ment in the Coty case.

This decision demonstrates that the "special protection" afforded to famous people when filing a trade mark in their own name, which can neutralise any similarity with other signs which ordinarily...

Private equity firms cannot afford to ignore the groundswell for Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) considerations.

Electric vehicle sales have doubled in the first quarter of 2013 in comparison to the previous year.

The Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) published its 2012 Renewable Energy Data Book on November 23, 2013, reporting significant growth, particularly for wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) technologies.

In a recently released analysis, Deloitte provides an upbeat summary of the high growth occurring in infrastructure projects needed to support the hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling or "fracking" – boom across the country.

In the past several years, systems for rating corporate sustainability regimes have burgeoned, and more than 100 ratings, rankings, and indices are now available for use by investors, consumers, and others interested in comparing one company to another based on its sustainability and corporate responsibility program.

Regulators and prosecutors are flexing their enforcement muscles in new and sometimes novel ways.

Beverage and pharma producers beware: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently has shown an interest in enforcing the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.

The US Government has for some time had in place sustainability procurement requirements, pursuant to Executive Order 13514, which mandates that 95% of new contract actions must be "green," including new task orders.

On October 30, 2017, in a matter of first impression in any Court of Appeals, the Second Circuit held in Bascuñán v. Elsaca that plaintiffs who allege injuries to tangible property located within the United States can satisfy the domestic injury requirement for claims brought under Section 1964(c) of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO").