Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a “supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking,” calling for comments on air pollution standards for control of methane emissions from new and
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Greenberg Traurig Tampa office Shareholders David Weinstein and Christopher Torres and Associate Kayli Smendec co-authored the chapter titled “Environmental Enforcement and Crimes” in Environment, Energy, and Resources Law: The Year
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On his first day in office, President Biden issued Executive Order 14008, calling on federal agencies to prioritize environmental justice and find ways to address disproportionate pollution impacts on
Continue Reading Cumulative risk by any other name: Seeking environmental justice in an era of statutory, regulatory, and scientific uncertainty
A review of the environmental cases decided by the Pennsylvania appellate courts last year follows. Please forgive any omissions of cases or detail in this catalogue. Many of these cases
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When one cleans up contaminated property, often the cleanup calls for a neighbor to allow some action to address contamination migrating onto that neighbor’s property. A case from the Court
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On Oct. 6, 2021, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) announced Phase 1 of a proposed two-phase rollback of the most significant substantive changes included in the National
Continue Reading Turning Back the Clock: CEQ’s Recently Announced NEPA Amendments Aim to Restore Pre-Trump Administration Approach to Environmental Review
NOTE: The EPA will be hosting a webinar on this topic on Nov. 2 at 2:00 p.m. EST.
On Oct. 18, 2021, United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator
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From July 20 to 23, five Greenberg Traurig attorneys from the firm’s Environmental Practice will speak at the Florida Chamber Foundation’s 35th Annual Environmental Permitting Summer School.
Tune in to the latest episode of Greenberg Traurig’s Legal Environmental Insights podcast for analysis from GT Shareholders Bernadette Rappold and Christopher Torres on some of the most significant environmental
Continue Reading Legal Environmental Insights Podcast: Episode 11 | What the Largest Litigation Cases and Law Decisions of 2020 Mean to the Practitioner
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
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