Monthly Archives: January 2020
Florida Legislative Update: Climate Change Bills
Given the abrupt change from the policies of the prior governor’s administration, the biggest news on climate change legislation is probably the fact that there is a chance that climate change legislation will be passed this year at all. There are lots of bills, and although specific renewable energy goals are not included in them, […]
California Consumer Privacy Act is Now in Effect and It Impacts How We Do Business in Florida
As of January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act became effective creating data privacy requirements for businesses who interact with California consumers or sell data collected about California consumers. The law applies to any Florida companies that “do business” in California and meet these criteria: has a gross annual revenue of $25 million, or […]
New Interim Rule Adopted Under Export Administration Regulations May Impact Ocean Sciences and Marine Technology Industry
On January 6, 2020, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published an interim final rule amending the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to make a type of geospatial imagery software specially designed for training Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to automate the analysis of geospatial imagery and point clouds subject to the EAR. The interim final rule will […]
Major Investors and Institutions Changing Priorities to Recognize Climate Risk in Financial Decisions
Two very large financial institutions have made recent news with regard to how they plan to invest going forward: they are giving sustainability and climate change resiliency a key role in their investment decision-making process. BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager. It manages over $7 trillion in investments for its clients around the world. […]