Sentences with phrase «environmental claims»

Despite the lack of mandated standards for voluntary carbon offsets, marketers should generally avoid making false or misleading environmental claims.

His litigation practice focuses on the defense of toxic tort, occupational disease, and environmental claims alleging bodily injury and property damage.

Although these were personal injury cases, the principles might easily be adapted to environmental claims arising as a result of climate change.

We have extensive trial and appeal experience in successfully defending clients against complicated and potentially devastating environmental claims.

His litigation practice focuses on the defense of toxic tort, occupational diseases, and environmental claims alleging bodily injury and property damage for both individual and mass tort claims.

Represented national public utility company in defense of environmental claims based on historic property usage.

-- the Green Guides — set out guidelines governing the claims you can make about carbon offsets, as well as other environmental claims.

advising on environmental claims relating to oil storage depots, contaminated land and contamination from cooling tower emissions.

Represented clients with environmental claims relating to high - profile government licensure program.

Green Guides — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has produced Green Guides to advise businesses in making environmental claims about their organization or the products they produce to comply with truth - in - advertising principles.

The American Beverage Association and its members support the FTC's review of the Green Guides and believe that any changes must provide clear guidance to companies about making accurate environmental claims, while also preventing confusion for consumers.

FTC did not use those guidelines to file any complaints regarding environmental claims during the administration of President George W. Bush, but it has filed seven since Obama took office.

The commission filed two other complaints over the biodegradability of products, as well as four against companies using environmental claims in the marketing of bamboo clothing.

Acted on several matters before the Supreme Court of Canada, including one of the country's leading equality rights cases (R v Kapp) and the leading case in Canada on environmental claims within the context of insolvency proceedings (Re AbitibiBowater)

Defends oil company against environmental claims brought by the State of Illinois, including filing contribution claims against ten oil companies, including two Global 500 companies, and defeating multiple motions to dismiss.

With extensive experience in toxic tort litigation, the lawyers with The Cochran Firm — Dothan have successfully represented clients in significant environmental claims against companies or individuals who have polluted our communities or caused harm to individuals or their property.

«My energy experience is plant, pipeline and well - related and includes environmental claims following accidental releases.»

As for Branson's remarkable environmental claims, Toohey isn't buying.

The lab was hired to verify Volkswagen's impressive environmental claims, which turned out to be fabricated.

Specious environmental claims run rampant in the mattress industry.

Distinguished by Kia's most extensive use of bio-based materials, the Soul EV has received UL's first ever automotive environmental claim validation for its 10.9 lbs.

It's a long story, but the summary is that this controversy marked a shift from relying on ecosystem ecology to support environmental claims, to instead using population ecology (like models of striped bass populations) to make predictions of impacts.

This is a requirement of much government legislation around the world — often in trading standards or consumer protection law — as well as forming the basis of the Green Guides, so organizations with a global presence can apply the same principles to all of their reporting and environmental claims worldwide.

The marks display validated environmental claims, with three levels allowing companies to show continuous improvement in reducing and offsetting a given product's environmental impact, SGS says.

Steptoe's toxic tort litigation practice, which was recognized in the 2014 and 2015 editions of The Legal 500 US for providing «exceptional skill and service,» defends toxic tort, product liability and environmental claims nationwide for the chemical, petrochemical, aerospace, manufacturing, and agricultural industries.

By way of example, Gomez Trial Attorneys is actively litigating emerging environmental claims, as evidenced by lawsuits filed by various California and Washington cities against Monsanto, which have received international media attention.

The revised Guidance also incorporates two sets of self - regulatory principles agreed among stakeholders: one will support comparison tools to better comply with the Directive and the other will help the enforcement of unfair commercial practices rules against misleading and unfounded environmental claims.

In addition to the above, Sunny regularly handles environmental claims and serves as counsel in litigation involving leaking underground storage tanks, groundwater contamination, and claims pursuant to the New Jersey Spill Compensation Act.

MG+M combines extensive trial experience with broad substantive experience in the constantly - changing arenas of federal, state, and local environmental law and regulation, in addition to the technical areas required to analyze and resolve environmental claims.

In my March 2017 post here, I explained that amendments to the costs rules for public law environmental claims threatened to undo much of the certainty that those rules had achieved since 2013.

Some noise is being made concerning Aarhus environmental claims where there is an obligation to ensure affordable access to the court.

Contaminated private property often propels environmental claims by the current property owner against previous owners or neighboring property owners.

Our occupational disease and environmental claims team provides a market leading claims handling solution to major composite insurers, corporations, multinationals with captive cover and self insured companies.

It was announced earlier this year that the law firm that brought the Kenya Training Areas group litigation, Leigh Day & Co, is preparing the first multi-party environmental claim to be made in the UK on behalf of African claimants.

Negligence: many environmental claims involve allegations of negligence.

The US Federal Trade Commission's Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims — the Green Guides — set out guidelines governing the claims you can make about carbon offsets, as well as other environmental claims.

At the Ontario Bar Association's Institute 2015 conference — now in full swing, with 1,700 participants converging in downtown Toronto — Osler's Jennifer Fairfax delivered a paper that describes a litany of failed attempts to certify an environmental class, and ultimately suggests class actions may not be the preferable mechanism for dealing with environmental claims.

Climate hawk David Roberts (Grist) accurately describes Adler's piece as «an eloquent, principled case for the simple notion that «embrace of limited government principles need not entail the denial of environmental claims.

When making environmental claims about carbon offsets, it's clear that an organization must rely heavily on its chosen offset provider, since the emissions reduction calculations, verification procedures, offset registration and retirement are the provider's responsibility.

Their seven key guidelines after the fold.When making environmental claims on your products or in your advertising, you should check the following:

«We strongly support the FTC altering the Green Guides to ensure companies are providing accurate environmental claims to educate and inform consumers, while also giving companies the flexibility needed for continued packaging innovation,» said Neely.

When you're marketing yourself as an eco-friendly real estate professional, make sure you're aware of the Federal Trade Commission's «Green Guides,» designed to help marketers avoid making misleading environmental claims.

The firm has defended bad faith claims alleging failure to defend or indemnify, various coverage disputes including environmental claims, and failure to pay or settle first party claims.

The current preferential position for environmental claims arises out of the UK's Aarhus Convention obligations — to which we subscribe independently of the EU, in case you were wondering.