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12/02/2008  Opportunities for Venture Capitalists at Department of Energy Laboratories
10/16/2008  The AB 32 Train is About to Leave the Station: California Air Resources Board Releases Key Climate Change Planning Document
10/03/2008  Summary of Cleantech Provisions in the Bailout Bill
10/02/2008  SB 375 Becomes Law, Pushing Greenhouse Gas Reduction to the Forefront of California Transportation, Economic and Land Use Planning
09/30/2008  Schwarzenegger Signs Green Chemistry Bills
Published with permission of Portfolio Media, Inc. © 2008. Originally published in Product Liability Law360.
09/29/2008  Vault: Company Green Practices - Morrison & Foerster LLP
Reprinted with permission, Vault, Inc. © 2008.
09/29/2008  California Vows To Fight As Oil-Drilling Ban Ends
Published with permission of Portfolio Media, Inc. © 2008. Originally published in Energy Law360.
09/01/2008  Greenwashing -- Avoiding Greenwashing: The Brave New World of Environmental Marketing Claims
08/27/2008  Quarterly Cleantech Update: Green Marketing, “Greenwashing,” and False Advertising
08/26/2008  California Presses Its Green Chemistry Initiative
08/26/2008  Climate Change Bill Imminent: Lawyers
Published with permission of Portfolio Media, Inc. © 2008. Originally published in Enviromental Law360.
08/25/2008  Technologically Speaking
Published with permission of bizSanDiego © 2008.
08/22/2008  Shareholder Resolutions: Sustainability as the Next Executive Compensation
Published with permission of the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee of the International Section of the ABA © 2008.
08/06/2008  Building a Greener San Francisco
07/24/2008  Green Buildings: Coming to a Location Near You!
07/09/2008  Prominent Environmental Lawyer Michael Steel Joins Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco
Adds to California’s leading Proposition 65 practice and enhances firm’s Cleantech group as expert in air law and regulation
07/09/2008  Morrison & Foerster's Seth Galanter Appointed to District of Columbia Commission on Persons with Disabilities
Mr. Galanter chosen by Mayor Adrian Fenty for his commitment to serving the disabled community
07/08/2008  Carbon Value in Cleantech: Critical for Valuation, Revenue and Partnerships
07/01/2008  Intellectual Property Diligence For Alternative Energy Markets: The Race To Commercialise Exclusive Positions
06/26/2008  The Scoop on California’s Plan for Reducing Greenhouse Gases – Golden State to Require Cap-and-Trade, Wind-Solar-Geothermal, Green Buildings and Clean Cars
California’s Greenhouse Gas Plan
06/25/2008  The Great Green Hope – California Carbon Trading for Climate Change Improvements
Copyright 2008 the American Law Institute. Reproduced with the permission of American Law Institute-American Bar Association Continuing Professional Education.
06/23/2008  New Policy Means More ‘Cleantech’ for Contractors
Published with permission of Portfolio Media, Inc. © 2008. Originally published in Energy Law360.
06/02/2008  New Federal Policy Means More Cleantech For Contractors
05/12/2008  Protecting Your Ownership in Future Carbon Markets
Published with permission of Portfolio Media, Inc. © 2008. Originally published in Energy Law360.
05/06/2008  Morrison & Foerster Takes Up ABA/EPA “Law Office Climate Challenge,” a Call to Firms to Be Better at Being Green
Climate Challenge complements firm’s long-standing community service contributions, comes on the heels of its new Cleantech practice
05/01/2008  Quarterly Cleantech Update, April 2008
04/29/2008  Protecting Inventions Involving Biofuel Feedstock
Published with permission of Portfolio Media, Inc. © 2008. Originally published in Energy Law360.
04/18/2008  Seals of Approval
“Green” certification marks raise new liability issues

04/11/2008  Morrison & Foerster Advises on Collaboration to Develop Water Efficient Maize for Africa ("WEMA")
04/01/2008  Maximizing Patent Opportunities and Funding in Clean and Green-Tech Start-ups
02/26/2008  China Clean Tech Bulletin -- February 2008
02/14/2008  New EPA Reporting Requirements for Lead in Children’s Products (Ages 14 and Under)
02/11/2008  EPA's Quest for Nano Data Leads to Concern
02/08/2008  A Dispatch from the Water Wars -- The Georgia Front
01/07/2008  Governor Schwarzenegger Takes the EPA to Court
12/11/2007  New PRC Anti-Pollution Notice Targets Exporters
11/01/2007  The Emergence of New Corporate Forms: The need for alternative corporate designs integrating financial and social missions
This article was first published by Summit on the Future of the Corporation, November 2007. Reprinted with permission.
10/19/2007  California Legislature Widens Control Over Hazardous Substances in Electronic Products and Furthers Energy Efficiency to Protect Climate – Lighting and Lamps
10/03/2007  Firm Highlighted as a Key Player in the Current Silicon Valley Green Tech Industry
One of just two law firms named in the current Silicon Valley "Great Green Boom"
10/01/2007  Climate Change: A Roundtable Discussion
10/01/2007  8-K Forum: Climate Change
10/01/2007  Corporate Social Responsibility and Fiduciary Duties in Public and Private Companies
09/14/2007  Trends in Cleantech Investing
08/23/2007  Landmark CEQA/Climate Change Settlement
06/21/2007  Cleantech: Quarterly Update
06/20/2007  The Move to Biofuels – Will California’s Transportation Network be up to the Challenge?
06/14/2007  The Commerce Clause Implications of California’s Climate Change Initiatives
04/03/2007  Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks—The Supreme Court Decides in Massachusetts v. EPA that the Decades-Old Clean Air Act May Regulate Greenhouse Gases
04/03/2007  “Duking” It Out – Supreme Court Decides Major Clean Air Act Case Regarding Modification of Facilities
Supreme Court Decision in Environmental Defense, et al. v. Duke Energy et al. April 2, 2007
12/14/2006  New Climate Change Law – Kyoto in California?