Robinson Twp. v. Commonwealth, No. 63 MAP 2012 (Pa. Dec. 19, 2013), upended a lot of what we thought we knew about the Environmental Rights Amendment to the Pennsylvania
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Climate Change Adaptation
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Posted in Climate Change, Policy
A lot of the climate change news recently — and I note it below — has focused on climate change “mitigation.” Mitigation is steps that might be taken to slow…
Defenses to CERCLA Claims Not Listed in Section 107(b)
By David Mandelbaum on
Posted in Environment
Section 107(a) of CERCLA says that section 107(b) lists the only defenses to a cost recovery claim, but it turns out there are many more. David Mandelbaum’s monthly column in Pa. Law Weekly explores what this means.
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Declaratory Judgments Under Superfund
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Posted in Court Cases
When is a declaratory judgment required, permitted, or inappropriate under the federal Superfund statute? My December column in the Legal Intelligencer / Pennsylvania Law Weekly explores these issues.
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