On the morning of Dec. 25, the News Analysis on page A1 of the New York Times led off with this cheery holiday thought: “Sometime in the last couple of
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Valuing Contaminated Property
By David Mandelbaum on
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If you know contaminated industrial property would be worth $X clean, what is the proper way to value the contamination? Maybe it is just the “cost to cure,” but that…
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Institutional Controls and Pre-enforcment Review in Cleanup Cases
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My October Environmental Practice Column in the Pennsylvania Law Weekly considers issues presented by the intersection of the bar on pre-enforcement review and reliance on “institutional controls.” These issues come…
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Tracking “Environmental Debtors”
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February’s column in the Pennsylvania Law Weekly / Legal Intelligencer considers the “environmental debts” that often arise in transactions or otherwise. Managing Environmental Obligations: Tracking Environmental Debtors, 35 Pa. L. Weekly 196 (Feb. 28, 2012).
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