- Uptick in Redevelopment of Contaminated Sites – This trend is evident both for impacted sites in general and for those formally in the state of Florida’s (EPA) Brownfields Program, which provides

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Kerri L. Barsh is Co-Chair of the firm’s Environmental Practice and represents public and private clients on an array of environmental regulatory, permitting and litigation matters, including transactional support and due diligence, environmental assessment and liability matters, climate change, energy and infrastructure projects, wetlands and coastal permitting, complex land use projects, air quality matters, hazardous materials contamination, and other compliance and enforcement cases. Kerri is a member of the firm's Executive Committee.
The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with the Sacketts against the Environmental Protection Agency to narrow the Clean Water Act.
Continue Reading Supreme Court Issues Decision Sharply Limiting Clean Water Act Jurisdiction over Wetlands
The Biden-Harris administration is quickly establishing new federal environment requirements affecting commercial property owners and managers. These requirements, along with changes occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic, raise a host of…
Continue Reading The Top 5 New Environmental Issues for Commercial Property Owners or Managers
Because we were reminded this last year how interconnected it all is, and hopefully, we learned a few things about how to keep it beautiful, bountiful, and healthy.
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Continue Reading Happy Earth Day from Greenberg Traurig’s Environmental Practice
With today being World Oceans Day, the future of our oceans and the effects of sea level rise are on our mind. Greenberg Traurig’s Kerri L. Barsh, co-chair of the…
Continue Reading Today is World Oceans Day – Here Are Five Things Business Owners Need to Know About Sea Level Rise
Securing risk-based closure of a contaminated site in Miami-Dade County, known as a “No Further Action with Conditions (NFAC),” typically requires the imposition of institutional controls in the form of…
Continue Reading New Risk Based Corrective Action Guidance for Miami-Dade Sites
In response to the widespread impacts of Hurricane Irma in Florida (all coastlines and virtually every community), Speaker Corcoran of the Florida House of Representatives has created a new Committee …
Continue Reading Lessons of Hurricane Irma — State of Florida Focus on Hurricane Preparedness and Infrastructure
Six Tips on Managing Water Damage, Mold Growth, and Bacterial Threats
As Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas, and other impacted areas begin the journey to recovery after Hurricanes Harvey and…
Continue Reading Hurricanes Harvey & Irma: Controlling Water, Mold, Bacterial Fallout
On May 31, 2016, in a unanimous ruling, the United States Supreme Court held that the Army Corps’ determination as to whether “protected waters,” subject to Clean Water Act regulations,…
Continue Reading Supreme Court Allows Immediate Challenges to Army Corps’ Clean Water Act Determinations
The Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission (Florida FWC) is taking comment until January 20, 2016, on changes proposed by the agency on its approach to endangered and threatened species…
Continue Reading Public Comment Deadline Nears on Florida’s Imperiled Species Management Plan in Contemplation of April 2016 Vote