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Firm News 26 results

Firm News | 3 min read | 12.14.23

Former Amazon Senior Sustainability Counsel Juge Gregg Joins Crowell & Moring

Juge Gregg, most recently senior corporate counsel on the sustainability legal team for Amazon, has joined Crowell & Moring as a partner in the firm’s Environment and Natural Resources Practice Group.

Firm News | 9 min read | 08.17.23

The Best Lawyers in America 2024 Recognizes 47 Crowell & Moring Attorneys, Two Selected as Lawyer of the Year

Washington – August 17, 2023: The 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® has recognized 47 firm lawyers as "Best Lawyers" and 41 lawyers as “Ones to Watch.”
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Firm News | 10 min read | 06.01.23

Crowell Achieves Top National Rankings in Chambers USA 2023

Washington – June 1, 2023: Crowell & Moring earned 82 rankings for 68 lawyers across 48 categories, as well as 37 national and statewide practice area rankings, in the Chambers USA 2023 guide. The rankings are driven by independent interviews of clients and lawyers at peer firms.
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Client Alerts 46 results

Client Alert | 4 min read | 10.10.23

California Raises the Bar for Corporate Accountability as Newsom Signs the Most Sweeping Climate Disclosure Laws in the Nation

On Saturday, October 7, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law two landmark bills—SB 253, the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act; and SB 261, the Climate-Related Financial Risk Act—that will require large public and privately-held entities doing business in California to comply with sweeping disclosure requirements regarding their direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions and their climate-related financial risks.
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Client Alert | 5 min read | 05.31.23

EPA is Lining Up Its Ducks for Aggressive PFAS Enforcement

Hardly a day passes without the newspapers reporting on an EPA action, lawsuit, or governmental proposal regarding PFAS, a diverse group of chemicals used in the manufacture of many consumer, industrial, and commercial products. In some circumstances, PFAS usage can result in soil and groundwater contamination. Addressing PFAS contamination is a clear priority for EPA and enforcement agencies right now and aligns with the Biden Administration’s focus on drinking water issues.[1] Companies need to be aware of what EPA has already done on PFAS—and what EPA has recently signaled is coming.
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Client Alert | 4 min read | 03.10.23

DOT Releases Final Standards for Federally Funded EV Charging Stations

The Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration has issued final standards for the installation, operation, and maintenance of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations paid for with federal funds pursuant to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and other federal authorities. The standards, which go into effect on March 30, 2023, regulate the types of chargers that may be installed, as well as payment processing, labor, cybersecurity, and data privacy practices for EV charging infrastructure on federal highways.
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Press Coverage 174 results

Press Coverage | 04.13.23

Crowell & Moring Hires DoJ Environmental Law Specialist

Commercial Dispute Resolution

Publications 14 results

Publication | 12.28.21

Top ESG, Environmental Issues for Business in 2022

Bloomberg Law

Events 9 results

Event | 03.26.19, 4:00 AM EDT - 6:00 AM EDT

Climate Investor Circle Breakfast: Making Sense of Strange Weather in a Warming World

Join us for an engaging talk by Andrew Revkin, a Strategic Adviser for Environmental and Science Journalism at the National Geographic Society. Revkin has won most of the top awards in science journalism along with a Guggenheim Fellowship. Revkin has written on global environmental change and risk for more than 30 years, reporting from the North Pole to the White House, the Amazon rain forest to the Vatican. His fourth book is, “Weather: An Illustrated History, from Cloud Atlases to Climate Change."
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Event | 12.19.17, 1:00 PM EST - 3:00 PM EST

EBA Energizer: The Clean Power Plan: What Lies Beyond

The EBA Environmental Regulation Committee presents an all-star panel that will discuss the Clean Power Plan (CPP), including the proposed CPP repeal, the potential replacement options, the role of states and NGOs in the CPP debate, and how the outcome of the CPP proceedings might affect the future of energy and environmental policy in our nation.
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Event | 12.07.17, 3:30 AM EST - 5:00 AM EST

Business Leaders Forum: Environmental Regulation, Climate Change, and Investment in Sustainable Energy

As the federal government steps back from aggressive environmental regulation and combating climate change, what are the implications for New York-area businesses? Join senior business leaders for a private roundtable on how:
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Webinars 11 results

Webinar | 12.09.21, 7:30 AM EST - 8:45 AM EST

ESG Survey: Environmental Performance and the Stakes for Your Business

Businesses are under increasing pressure to measure, improve, and disclose their environmental performance to investors, to consumers, and to regulators. And their efforts are reaching into every area of their operations, as are the risks and opportunities that follow. 
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Webinar | 07.01.21, 9:00 AM EDT - 10:00 AM EDT

The Charging Stations

Just as with the introduction of the internal combustion engine vehicle more than a century ago, the success of EVs will depend on the buildout of infrastructure required to power them: high-speed charging stations. President Biden’s infrastructure package calls for the federal government to provide $174 billion in incentives for the purchase of EVs, but even more importantly, for the construction of 500,000 fast chargers across the nation by 2030. This webinar will focus on:
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Webinar | 05.20.21, 9:00 AM EDT - 10:00 AM EDT

The Electric Vehicle and the Environment

Electric vehicles are taking off, and the new Administration intends to help them along through incentive programs and federal procurement of a fleet of EVs. EVs provide tremendous opportunities, but they also pose their own challenges and legal risks. Crowell & Moring is happy to announce a webinar series dedicated to issues related to electric vehicles, both for manufacturers and purchasers.  We will cover everything from manufacturing EVs, to developing the charging station infrastructure, to considerations of the source of the electricity for those charging stations and how that impacts EV “fuel economy,” to reclamation and recycling of EV batteries. 
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Speaking Engagements 43 results