Environmental Law
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Environmental Law Articles
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Project XL for Communities
Local government officials are responsible for complying with complex federal environmental regulatory requirements. Federal regulations often emphasize compliance with specific, burdensome mandates over the adoption of comprehensive, common sense ...
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Proposed Solvent Cleaning Regulations
DEP has proposed new regulations of solvent cleaning operations in order to reduce volatile organic compounds ("VOC"). The proposed requirements will be more stringent than the existing Federal Control Techniques Guidelines because DEP believes they ...
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Protecting Government From Liability: The FAA’s Approach to Flight Safety Rulemaking After The Aircrash
For the past twenty years, the FAA has been passing regulations restricting where pilots can fly. The FAA claims its sole purpose is to make flying safer, but FAA rule making clearly has been designed to protect the government from liability. The ...
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Questions & Answers: American Indian Tribal Rights, Federal-Tribal Trust Responsibilities, and the Endangered Species Act
1. This Secretarial Order clarifies responsibilities of the Departments of Commerce and the Interior when the implementation of the ESA affects (or may affect) Indian lands, tribal trust resources, or the exercise of tribal rights. 2. The Federal ...
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RCRA Citizenship Provision Preempts State Law
In the case of Boyes v. Shell Oil Products Company, 2000 W.L. 3724 (January4, 2000), the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit found a Florida statute in direct conflict with RCRA's citizen suit provision and thus preempted ...
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RE: Action Alert, U.S. EPA Guidance, Challenges to Permits
U.S. EPA recently took an action which could significantly impact environmental permits under federal laws even though the permits fully comply with all substantive environmental regulations and standards. After more than 16 months of closed-door ...
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Real Estate Finance
The recent combination of low interest rates and increased fervor with which commercial banks are pursuing real estate-based loans has created an opportunity for many small to medium sized businesses to consider purchasing their property for the ...
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Recent Court of Appeals Decision Highlights: The Importance of Timely Assertion of Claims in Environmental Litigation
Because lawsuits over environmental contamination often revolve around allegations of improper activities that can be years, even decades, old, the statute of limitations is an important and frequently relied upon defense in such cases. Statutes of ...
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Recent Developments: The Y2K Act And Litigation Regarding Insurance Coverage for Y2K Remediation Costs
While the summer has seen a lull in legal news related to the Year 2000 problem, there have been two noteworthy developments. The first is the enactment of the federal Year 2000 Readiness and Responsibility Act, commonly referred to as the "Y2K ...
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Recent Petroleum Cost Recovery Ruling Limits Rights in Pennsylvania
A recent decision by Judge William W. Caldwell of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania imposes important limits to petroleum contamination cost recovery actions in Pennsylvania. In Two Rivers Terminal L.P. v ...
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