Last month, Kerri Barsh posted about a floating villas project planned for a man-made lake north of Miami.  Her post is here. A few weeks later, we noticed press coverage about another floating home project conceived as a response to climate change and sea level rise, although otherwise quite different.  WetLand is an exhibit at the Philadelphia Fringe Arts Festival.  For a description click here. That got us thinking, and, with the deadline for my monthly column in the Pennsylvania Law Weekly upon me, we explored what these kinds of projects mean as real — not hypothetical — examples of climate adaptation.  Read Mandelbaum & Barsh, Climate Adaptation:  the concrete example of floating homes, 37 Pa. L. Weekly 846 (Sept. 9, 2014), here.

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David G. Mandelbaum represents clients facing problems under environmental laws. He regularly represents clients in lawsuits and also has helped clients achieve satisfactory outcomes through regulatory negotiation or private transactions. A Fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers, David teaches Superfund, and…

David G. Mandelbaum represents clients facing problems under environmental laws. He regularly represents clients in lawsuits and also has helped clients achieve satisfactory outcomes through regulatory negotiation or private transactions. A Fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers, David teaches Superfund, and Oil and Gas Law in rotation at the Temple University Beasley School of Law as well as an environmental litigation course at Suffolk (Boston) Law School.

Since United States v. Atlas Minerals, the first multi-generator Superfund contribution case to go to trial in 1993, Mr. Mandelbaum has been engaged in matters involving allocation of costs among responsible parties, especially under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA).  He has tried large cases and resolved others as lead counsel.  He has written, spoken, and taught extensively on the subject.  More recently he also has been engaged to assist lead counsel from this firm and others:

  • to develop cost allocation methodologies;
  • to craft expert testimony in support of a favored methodology (given a definition of “fairness,” why one methodology better tracks it than another);
  • to develop efficient case management approaches; and to assist private allocation as part of the neutral team.

Concentrations

  • Air, water and waste regulation
  • Superfund and contamination
  • Climate change
  • Oil and gas development
  • Water rights