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S&P Global Ratings To Enhance Transparency In U.S. Public Finance Credit Analysis With ESG Credit Indicators.
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And finally, Let’s Go With Ladybug Farm is brought to us this week by Township of Fraser v. Haney, in which the Supreme Court of Michigan was forced to conclude that plaintiff’s neighbor, “had a history of illegal animal operations on the property, including a deer farm that had been ordered closed by a circuit court and Russian boar production that had been banned by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.” Both of which existed prior to the present kerfuffle concerning the hog facility currently being run on the property. As the court noted, “The presence of the hogs on the property constitutes the wrong, and that wrong, along with the attendant harms it causes, is being committed as long as the piggery operates.” Piggery? That’s a new to us (although we did learn the term “animal husbandry” the hard way). Then again, fisheries are a thing. In that vein, what would one call an operation dedicated to raising bugs?

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