Law Firm Claims Wood is a Fossil Fuel!
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck — a firm that boasts “you can rest assured that you’re being represented by a team of seasoned attorneys with the knowledge, relationships and legal skills to help you mitigate even the most complex environmental risk” — says wood is a fossil fuel.
California recently enacted a landmark global warming law, Assembly Bill 32 (AB32), whose goals were to establish state-wide programs designed to combat greenhouse gases and promote the development and use of energy-efficient technologies. Carbon dioxide is the main focus of AB32. Carbon dioxide is produced by the burning of fossil fuels, such as coal, petroleum, natural gas, or wood, and is discharged primarily from exhaust pipes and industrial smokestacks. Because greenhouse gas emissions are directly related to the use of energy, measures designed to conserve energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions are key, but surely not the entire picture.
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This is a classic example of why law firms (functioning as publishers) need editors. Having an editor review copy before it’s published is nothing less than the application of due diligence.
Note: without an editor, readers might be left with the impression that the firm’s expert attorneys think that most of the carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere comes from exhaust pipes and industrial smokestacks.
In a sense, what Brownstein, et al. is doing with its publications is demonstrating to all (including prospective clients and adversaries) that it doesn’t apply due diligence to all it does, and that’s not good, especially since the firm claims (believe it or not) that due diligence is one of its specialties.
