Kaitlyn R. Maxwell, a shareholder in Greenberg Traurig’s Philadelphia office, was recognized in the City & State Pennsylvania “2022 Impact 50” issue. The magazine touts Maxwell as
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Navigating Voluntary Cleanups in a World of Evolving Science
Pennsylvania’s Land Recycling and Environmental Remediation Standards Act of 1995, or Act 2, established Pennsylvania’s program for the voluntary cleanup of contaminated sites. Act 2 requires the Environmental Quality Board…
Continue Reading Navigating Voluntary Cleanups in a World of Evolving ScienceOil and Gas and Another Questionable Pennsylvania Environmental Rights Amendment Decision
I recently wrote a column for The Legal Intelligencer’s Pennsylvania Law Weekly, reposted on this blog here, raising questions about whether the Pennsylvania courts have correctly identified the…
Continue Reading Oil and Gas and Another Questionable Pennsylvania Environmental Rights Amendment DecisionIs the Pa. High Court Deciding the Most Helpful Environmental Rights Amendment Cases?
The Supreme Court can only decide so many cases. If we are to have a constitutional environmental provision with relevance to the interaction of private activities with the government, Pennsylvania…
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Procedure or Substance and Natural or Built Under the ERA
This column seeks to sharpen up two large issues under the first sentence of Section 27 of the Environmental Rights Amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution, Article I, the one granting
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What Impact Review Does the Pennsylvania ERA Require?
Last month, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court decided another in a series of cases applying the Environmental Rights Amendment to municipal land use decisions involving the oil and gas industry. That…
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Environmental Cases in the Pennsylvania Appellate Courts in 2021
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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E2 Law Podcast Episode: The New Environmental Rights Amendment to the NY Constitution
You are invited to listen to the latest episode of Greenberg Traurig’s E2 Law Podcast, “The New Environmental Rights Amendment to the NY Constitution.”
In the first episode…
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The Value of a Right to Flood by an Additional 5.5 Feet
Last week, an intermediate appellate court in Pennsylvania held that a jury properly awarded no compensation for a right to flood a lakefront property by an additional 5.5 feet in…
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Will Climate Change Cause Storm Water Claims to Rain Down?
Storm water claims may be an emerging small-scale form of litigation driven by climate change. In Pennsylvania, like many parts of the country, a changing climate has increased the frequency…
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