Fall 2020: Multinational Corporations

In This Issue

Environment

Transnational Environmental Accountability

Robert V. Percival and Jingjing Zhang

Increased transnational accountability, through legal measures, transparency initiatives, and other means, can better remedy environmental and personal injuries and offenses against human rights.

Environment

Multinational Corporations Operating in China: Environmental Challenges and Solutions

Lu Wang and Shengzhi Wang

Localized legal advice and effective communication with local governments help multinational companies to achieve the goal of environmental compliance in China.

Environment

Climate Risk Is Investment Risk

Melissa K. Scanlan

The climate emergency poses investment risks, and non-financial disclosures may play a large role in shifting investment to achieve deep decarbonization and sustainable development.

Environment

Corporate Financial Disclosures and Environmental, Social, and Governance Concerns: Evolving Issues

David McSweeney and Lisa Shelton

The decade’s-long trend of corporate financial reporting of ESG risks required for financial filings for public companies continues, as SEC guidance evolves.

Environment

Taxes, Corporations, and Infrastructure: Filling the Gap?

Roberta Mann

When governments fail to protect the environment, other economic actors, like large corporations, have the opportunity to play a greater role.

Environment

Crossing the Line: Navigating Multinational Corporation Chemical Compliance

Dottie Watson and Sarah Slack

For a multinational company, managing chemical regulatory compliance across borders can be a daunting task that requires coordination and cooperation across many business sectors.

Environment

Plastics: Global Outlook for Multinational Environmental Lawyers

Mary Ellen Ternes

Global comprehensive plastic and plastic waste regulation is developing, supported by scientific advancements in assessing environmental and toxicological risk associated with plastic waste.

Environment

Using Standards as a Framework for Environmental and Social Governance

Christopher Bell and John Voorhees

Standards can provide a practical governance framework for multinational organizations to successfully manage their complex environmental, sustainability, and social obligations and challenges.

Environment

Green Loans and Multinational Corporations: Financial Innovation to Deliver Sustainability

Thomas M. Kerr and Francisco Avendano

Green loans are a new, innovative tool that can help companies that are seeking finance to help advance their transition to cleaner operations along their supply chain.

Departments

Environment

Vantage Point

Samuel L. Brown, Issue Editor

The trend toward multinational corporations focusing on corporate social responsibility and environmental, social, and corporate governance can drive lasting and positive change, locally and globally.

Environment

Perspectives: Reflections on Being a SEER Chair

John C. Cruden

John C. Cruden reflects on touchstones of his tenure as SEER chair (2009–10), including the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, when he was serving as the acting assistant attorney general of DOJ’s Environment and Natural Resources Division.

Environment

Literary Resources

Reviewed by Madeline June Kass

Reviews of American Bar Association Climate Change Resolution, Practitioners’ Guide to the Proposed NEPA Regulations, Tales from America’s National Parks: Campfire Stories.

Environment

The Back Page: An Unwinnable Battle

Mark Ryan

After six years of fighting over the “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule, we’re no closer to resolution than we were in 2015.

Insights

Environment

Reclaiming Land and Rails at an Adirondack Mine

Frederick H. Turner

Recent developments at a mine and rail line in the Adirondack Park demonstrate that there can be more than one path forward to reclaiming the land.

Environment

Ecosystems in the Supreme Court

J.B. Ruhl

As important as the ecosystem concept is to legislatures and agencies, it has played little role in U.S. Supreme Court opinions.

Environment

The Blockbuster Clean Water Act Case That Wasn’t

Abigail M. Jones

Highly anticipated Supreme Court decision on Clean Water Act permitting for indirect discharges through groundwater does little to change the historic application of the statute.

Environment

The Evolution of Stormwater Regulation

Lisa A. Kirschner

The 2020 MSGP poses opportunities for EPA to revise the industrial stormwater management program and enhance its effectiveness while minimizing unnecessary monitoring and control measures.

Environment

SPROWG: A Collaborative Water Supply Concept

William H. Caile and Hayley K. Siltanen

Diverse stakeholders recently identified a major water supply project opportunity on the South Platte River in Colorado, highlighting the value of collaboration on western water issues.

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Fall 2020: Multinational Corporations

Corporate Social Responsibility and Multinational Corporations: An Emerging Vehicle for Doing Public Good

In This Issue

Transnational Environmental Accountability

Multinational Corporations Operating in China: Environmental Challenges and Solutions

Climate Risk Is Investment Risk

Corporate Financial Disclosures and Environmental, Social, and Governance Concerns: Evolving Issues

Taxes, Corporations, and Infrastructure: Filling the Gap?

Crossing the Line: Navigating Multinational Corporation Chemical Compliance

Plastics: Global Outlook for Multinational Environmental Lawyers

Using Standards as a Framework for Environmental and Social Governance

Green Loans and Multinational Corporations: Financial Innovation to Deliver Sustainability

Departments

Vantage Point

Perspectives: Reflections on Being a SEER Chair

Literary Resources

The Back Page: An Unwinnable Battle

Insights

Reclaiming Land and Rails at an Adirondack Mine

Ecosystems in the Supreme Court

The Blockbuster Clean Water Act Case That Wasn’t

The Evolution of Stormwater Regulation

SPROWG: A Collaborative Water Supply Concept