David G. Mandelbaum

May 02, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

When several parties are responsible for a Superfund site, often some parties resolve their obligations to the government before other parties. How the government and the courts account for those settlements matters to the exposure of the remaining parties.

By David G. Mandelbaum

8 minute read

January 24, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Pennsylvania appellate courts decided a relatively large number of environmental cases during 2018. In this part of the series, I will discuss enforcement, the Oil and Gas Act, valuation and a few other cases of note.

By David G. Mandelbaum

8 minute read

January 17, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Pennsylvania appellate courts decided a relatively large number of environmental cases during 2018. The following survey attempts to characterize them very briefly.

By David G. Mandelbaum

9 minute read

December 20, 2018 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Commonwealth Court recently provided new guidance on the extent to which the Environmental Rights Amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution gives municipalities or agencies additional powers or imposes on them additional obligations.

By David G. Mandelbaum

8 minute read

October 03, 2018 | The Legal Intelligencer

Many junior attorneys struggle to devote hours of work to senior attorneys and their clients while still finding ways to cultivate and secure their own clients. As attorneys on opposite ends of the experience spectrum, we dove into this familiar conundrum.

By  Sarah R. Goodman and David G. Mandelbaum

5 minute read

August 09, 2018 | The Legal Intelligencer

Soil or groundwater cleanups can take a long time. When one person conducts the cleanup and another has an interest in its completion, the two can disagree over the pace of the project. That is typically a three-party issue involving the regulator—for example, the Environmental Protection Agency or the Department of Environmental Protection.

By David G. Mandelbaum

8 minute read

January 11, 2018 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Pennsylvania appellate courts decided about two dozen cases that one could call “environmental” last year. A brief review follows that necessarily…

By David G. Mandelbaum

11 minute read

December 21, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

Earlier this month, the Commonwealth Court decided a case focused primarily on what constitutes a “watercourse” or “stream” under the Dam Safety and Encroachments Act.

By David G. Mandelbaum

8 minute read

October 26, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

On Oct. 16, the Environmental Protection Agency published its proposal to repeal the carbon pollution emission guidelines for existing electric power plants, the centerpiece of the Clean Power Plan, 82 Fed. Reg. 48,035.

By David G. Mandelbaum

7 minute read

September 21, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court's June decision in Pennsylvania Environmental Defense Foundation v. Wolf, 161 A.3d 911 (Pa. 2017) (PEDF), has sparked many conversations about how the newly interpreted Environmental Rights Amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution will be implemented.

By David G. Mandelbaum

17 minute read