David Gelles

2 weeks ago | pressdemocrat.com | David Gelles |Claire Brown

Before President Donald Trump returned to office, it was widely expected that his administration would again reduce support for clean energy, promote fossil fuels and disengage from global efforts to combat climate change. But during his first 100 days, Trump’s efforts to roll back regulations and stop climate action have shocked even those who were raising the alarm in the months before the election. “Full-on fight club” is how one environmental lawyer described it last month.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | David Gelles |Claire Brown

Before President Trump returned to office, it was widely expected that his administration would again reduce support for clean energy, promote fossil fuels and disengage from global efforts to combat climate change. But during his first 100 days, Trump's efforts to roll back regulations and stop climate action have shocked even those who were raising the alarm in the months before the election. "Full-on fight club" is how one environmental lawyer described it to us last month.

2 weeks ago | hrreporter.com | David Gelles

Exclusive to Canadian HR Reporter from Rudner Law. Employment lawyers like to joke that we chose employment law because we don’t want to do math… otherwise we would have been tax lawyers! However, there are times when tax, employment law, and math collide. One of these times is when a claim for severance settles. Usually, severance pay is taxable income and the employer paying it must make the applicable deductions and remittances.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | David Gelles

As stocks gyrate in response to President Trump's on-again, off-again tariffs, the world is understandably focused on the immediate chaos affecting the global economy. Yet over the past few months a number of signals have pointed to a far more profound disruption on the horizon: the growing economic cost of climate change.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | David Gelles

Al Gore, who served as vice president for eight years before becoming a full-time climate activist, knows something about presidential power. And in recent weeks, Gore has watched with alarm as President Trump stretches the limits of executive authority to dismantle federal climate policy, roll back environmental protections and eliminate incentives for clean energy.