Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 10
Compliance Perspectives: Changes to the Physician Self-Referral and Anti-Kickback Rules
Investment Management Roundtable Discussion – Regulatory and Enforcement Update
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As previously advised, the first compliance report required under New York City’s Local Law 97 (LL97) is due by May 1, 2025. LL97 requires most buildings over 25,000 square feet to limit carbon emissions or face significant...more
New York Local Law 97 (“LL97”) is a landmark piece of climate legislation enacted as part of New York City’s broader Climate Mobilization Act. Passed in 2019, LL97 aims to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from...more
Compliance with AB 1305, the Voluntary Carbon Market Disclosures Act (Health & Safety Code sections 44475 – 44475.3), is mandatory for certain entities, but there is still no official date for initial disclosures under AB...more
On September 22, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 707 into law, known as the Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024 (“the Act”). This new legislation requires companies that produce clothing and textiles...more
On October 2, 2024, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”), the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced parallel...more
California Attorney General (AG) Rob Bonta and the California Air Resources Board (the Board) have reached a $46 million agreement with engine manufacturer Cummins Inc. to settle alleged violations of California’s engine...more
California’s unprecedented AB 1305 law purports to target “greenwashing” by mandating public disclosures about virtually any claim of “significant” carbon reductions, but its broad wording and uncertain effective date raise...more
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Alabama Power Company (“APC”) entered into a January 3rd Consent Order (“CO”) addressing alleged violations of a Major Source Operating Permit (“Permit”)....more
In the mid-2000s, businesses unleashed “a virtual tsunami of environmental marketing,” responding to increased consumer demand for products and services perceived to be environmentally friendly, or “green.”1 This consumer...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Mid-Continent Coal & Coke Company (“Mid-Continent”) entered into a December 17th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”)...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the City of West Memphis (“City”) entered into a Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean...more
The Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board (“TACB”) issued a March 4th Technical Secretary’s Order and Assessment of Civil Penalty (“Order”) addressing an alleged air permit violation by State Industries, LLC (“State”). See...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Solfuels USA., Inc. (“Solfuels”) entered into a March 5th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of...more
The Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board (“Board”) issued a January 8th proposed Technical Secretary’s Order and Assessment of Civil Penalty (“Order”) to MagPro, LLC, (“MagPro”) for alleged violations of an air permit. See...more
Q4 Update: Overview of Cartel Investigations - Although 2018 saw guilty pleas and new indictments in several ongoing Department of Justice (DOJ) investigations, the year finished by continuing a downward trend in antitrust...more
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) and Acme Brick Company (“ABC”) entered into a December 18th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of an air permit. See LIS No. 18-100. ...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Liberty Casting Company, LLC (“LCC”) entered into a September 13th Consent Agreement and Final Order (“CAFO”) addressing alleged violations of the Clean Air Act...more
The Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board (“Board”) issued a February 6th Technical Secretary’s Order and Assessment of Civil Penalty (“Order”) to Jones Fiber Products, Inc. (“JFPI”) See Case No. APC17-0166. The Order...more
The Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board (“Board”) issued a November 6th Technical Secretary’s Order and Assessment of Civil Penalty (“Order”) to Jackson Furniture Industries, Inc. (“JFII”). JFII is described as a...more
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) and Siplast, Inc. (“SI”) entered into a September 29th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of an air permit. See LIS No. 17-077. SI...more
Environmental and Policy Focus - Royal Dutch Shell suspends Arctic drilling indefinitely: Washington Post - Sep 28: Royal Dutch Shell announced early on September 28, 2015 that it will indefinitely suspend its Arctic...more