Environmental Law

This is FindLaw’s collection of Environmental Law articles, part of the Corporate Counsel Center Law Library. Environmental law is the collection of statutes and regulations pertaining to air quality, water quality, the wilderness, endangered wildlife and other environmental factors. The umbrella of environmental legislation covers many laws and regulations, yet they all work together toward a common goal, which is regulating the interaction between man and the natural world to reduce threats to the environment and increase public health. Law articles in this archive are predominantly written by lawyers for a professional audience seeking business solutions to legal issues. Start your free research with FindLaw.

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Energy & Mineral Law Foundation 29th Mineral Law Conference Corps of Engineers Permitting Issues

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' ("Corps") entire regulatory program, including permitting, as it relates to the mineral industry, has undergone some significant changes during the past several years. Most significantly, the very future of the ...
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Entangled or Entangled?

As the strong real estate market continues, many developers and investors are reevaluating projects that, although they may have received previous government land-use approvals or "entitlements," remain only partially built-out or undeveloped ...
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Environmental Accounting

This article is also co-authored by Robert Lipscomb, the Brownfield Program Manager for the engineering firm of Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon in Nashville, Tennessee. Recent events over a twenty-four hour period indicate that the reporting of ...
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Environmental Bulletin

The deadline for introduction of new legislation in the 1999 Tennessee General Assembly has passed and this issue of the Waller Lansden Environmental Group Bulletin includes a summary of environmental, natural resources, and other regulatory bills ...
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Environmental Client Alert

Telecommunications companies must improve their environmental compliance efforts, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In a June enforcement alert, EPA urged telecommunications companies to take advantage of EPA’s Audit ...
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Environmental Concerns In Health Care Facility Transactions

The recent focus on the anticipated regulatory reform of health care has stimulated an unprecedented level of business activities in the nature of mergers, acquisitions, consolidations, strategic affiliations and other opportunities to create ...
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Environmental Justice Highlights and Trends

Environmental justice was first expressed during the early 1980s as "environmental racism" as an apparent rallying cry to mobilize civil rights activists. The obvious intent was to cast the issues as matters of overt discrimination. When ...
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Environmental Justice: Recent Federal and State Developments

Will additional facility expansions or brownfields developments be delayed, or environmental permits adversely affected because of concerns by the permitting agencies or citizens about the facility's impact on poor and minority communities? Pushed ...
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Environmental Law: Hauling Petroleum Products

N.C. law that relates to or regulates public or private carriers who haul petroleum products is substantial and complex. Given the breadth and scope of both N.C.'s statutes and regulations, and the federal laws and regulations which are either ...
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Environmental Law in the Virginia Legislature

. Provides that any person or state agency seeking reimbursement from the Petroleum Storage Tank Fund for costs and expenses incurred for oil cleanup must have acted at the direction of the State Water Control Board in undertaking such cleanup. In ...
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