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New California public benefit corporation laws take effect first 18 companies register on January 3, 2012
- Alston & Bird LLP
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- USA
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- January 4 2012
It’s a new year in California, and the green agenda takes another step forward as two new types of stock corporations are created: the public benefit and the flexible purpose corporations
Increased risks to disclosure of proprietary information and trade secrets presented by new California environmental legislation
- Alston & Bird LLP
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- USA
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- October 18 2010
Product design and manufacture used to be functions that a company could conduct internally, and in so doing, protect valuable proprietary processes and trade secret information from public disclosure
Sentences issued in the longest-running environmental crimes trial in U.S. history
- Alston & Bird LLP
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- USA
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- April 30 2009
Last week, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey issued significant prison sentences and a stiff criminal fine in United States v. Atlantic States Cast Iron Pipe Company et. al., the longestrunning environmental crime trial in U.S. history
CDP results released this morning
- Alston & Bird LLP
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- USA
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- September 22 2008
At a news conference in NYC this morning, the Carbon Disclosure Project released its annual findings
Climate disclosure obligations under securities laws imposed by New York Attorney General under precedent-setting settlement
- Alston & Bird LLP
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- USA
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- September 16 2008
Against the backdrop of steadily increasing controversy over climate change and the prospect of significant new regulatory obligations on U.S. companies as to their greenhouse gas footprints, a major energy company has recently succumbed to the claim that current securities laws, rules, and regulations require wide-ranging disclosures related to climate change in Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings
