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Gleaning the Direction of ESG Regulation

Green Building Law Update

As attorneys we assist companies capturing opportunities while mitigating risks, including because our ESG efforts can be subject to attorney client privilege and confidential work product, it is our focused long term experience in sustainability law that truly advantages our clients in leveraging ESG risk as a business opportunity.

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ESG is Not Just for Public Companies

Green Building Law Update

I am excited to be presenting a fast paced and fun one hour virtual program, “Environmental Social Governance (ESG) an Emergent and Fast Growing Area of the Law” for the Maryland State Bar Association, and Not just for lawyers, on December 14, 2021 at noon. This market driver is, of course, before any real ESG regulation in the U.S.”.

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A Call for Comprehensive and Clearer ESG Disclosures

Green Building Law Update

We work regularly with public companies and others in response to the rapid rise in the adoption of ESG, assisting businesses to try to enhance performance, pursue sustainable objectives, or both. In 2021, EU based regulators began to fill the ESG disclosure void, but with the change in political climate in the U.S., If each country (.

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COVID-19 Liability for Building Owners

Green Building Law Update

And these questions are not unfounded because as of November 1, 2020, legal industry databases of state and federal litigation are tracking more than 6,100 cases involving Covid-19 claims. Moreover, an invitee cannot maintain a negligence suit merely from a showing that an injury was sustained in the defendant’s building.

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Water is the Most Important ESG Factor

Green Building Law Update

I am excited to be presenting a fast paced and fun one hour virtual program, “ESG an Emergent and Fast Growing Area of the Law” for the Maryland State Bar Association, and Not just for lawyers, on December 14, 2021 at noon. Supreme Court squarely rejected Mississippi’s claim that Tennessee’s wells are stealing Mississippi’s ground water.

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Government Ownership of Rain is Antithetical to Increased Potable Water

Green Building Law Update

Supreme Court having before it an interstate water dispute, where Florida seeks an equitable apportionment of the waters of the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers over the claims of upstream Georgia, the issue of “who owns the rain” is of national importance. Maryland has the most stringent storm water (i.e., Eaton, 1952.

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Government Ownership of Rain is Antithetical to Increased Potable Water

Green Building Law Update

Supreme Court having before it an interstate water dispute, where Florida seeks an equitable apportionment of the waters of the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers over the claims of upstream Georgia, the issue of “who owns the rain” is of national importance. Maryland has the most stringent storm water (i.e., Eaton, 1952.