Environmental risks are often difficult to quantify and liabilities can be substantial. In addition, there is the risk of regulatory action in the event of a violation of environmental law.
Continue Reading Environmental Issues in Corporate Transactions: The Netherlands
There is a global trend to move capital to more sustainable economic activities. To ensure that capital is moved to the desired activities, several questions arise:
Roughly 15 years ago, many Pennsylvania landowners entered into oil and gas leases in the expectation of receiving royalties for the extraction of shale gas and oil underlying their properties.
Continue Reading Is the Oil and Gas Lease Over? Court Ruling Offers Guidance
On April 29, 2021, Administrator Michael Regan announced that EPA plans to add Natural Gas Processing (NGP) facilities to the list of industries subject to Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) reporting
Continue Reading EPA Will Finalize Rule Imposing Toxics Release Inventory Reporting Requirements on Natural Gas Processing Facilities
Last week, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court issued an unreported opinion in an eminent domain case of potential interest in anticipation of an infusion of federal funding for infrastructure development. Montgomery
Continue Reading NEPA and State Law Condemnation in Pennsylvania
On April 22 – Earth Day – President Biden announced that the United States would commit to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 to 50% of the country’s 2005
Continue Reading The Biden Earth Day Climate Announcement: Not Just Clean Air Act Regulation
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
Jordan W. Cowman and Robert J. Downing, shareholders of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, will participate in the virtual Columbia Business School: Guyana – Suriname Conference Series
Continue Reading Jordan Cowman and Robert Downing to Speak at Columbia Business School: Guyana – Suriname Conference Series
Experts in the environmental field often say that they base their opinions on “multiple lines of evidence.” Is that good enough?
Some time ago at a ballgame (the reader may
Continue Reading Basing an Environmental Expert Opinion on ‘Multiple Lines of Evidence’
Shareholder Erick Hernández Gallego will be panelist at a virtual session hosted by ATA Insights on Tuesday, April 6, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. CST. He will discuss the impact
Continue Reading WEBINAR: Mexico’s Electric Industry Law: Implications and Future Scenario for Renewable Energy in 2021