By David G. Mandelbaum | December 17, 2024
Although we may think some of the structures erected over the past 55 years could do with a redesign many of us think that some features of them really do serve some purpose. If it all burns, surely many of us have some thoughts about what the Phoenix might look like. I offer a few to get the ball rolling.
By Jeffrey Talbert and Laura Jensen | December 17, 2024
The Biden Administration made environmental justice a priority of its environmental programs, even creating new councils focused specifically on environmental justice. It issued new initiatives and guidance for agencies on how to consider environmental justice in existing environmental statutory schemes, and made significant funding available. What will happen to all of these initiatives when Donald Trump takes office in 2025? What does this mean for environmental justice efforts in New York and New Jersey?
By Debra Rosen and Charles Dennen and Thomas Tyrrell | December 16, 2024
This new rule proposes transformative changes to hazardous substance discharge reporting requirements that, if passed, will drastically change the way a party must respond to the discovery of a discharge of hazardous substances.
By Kenneth J. Warren | December 9, 2024
The Framework encourages EPA programs to consider the totality of exposures to chemical and nonchemical stressors affecting human health and the environment, together with vulnerabilities and susceptibilities that may increase the likelihood that exposures will result in illness or other injuries. By engaging with communities and considering the cumulative effects of an action on the exposed population, the EPA can best protect citizens from environmental injuries.
By Lewis Goldshore | December 6, 2024
In 2024, the New Jersey courts continued to have an active role in shaping and defining environmental and clean energy law. This article provides a survey of this year’s decisions.
By Casey Alan Coyle and Michael Libuser | December 5, 2024
Over 100,000 cases have been brought against Monsanto Corp. nationwide, claiming its Roundup weed-killer contains a carcinogenic active ingredient, namely, glyphosate. Hundreds of such cases are pending in Pennsylvania alone. But for over 30 years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found evidence of glyphosate’s noncarcinogenicity for humans, and in 2015, the EPA determined “that glyphosate is not likely to be carcinogenic to humans.
By Dan Novak | December 3, 2024
“It wouldn't surprise me at all ... if [the challenge to naming PFOA and PFOS as hazardous] goes up all the way to the Supreme Court just because it is somewhat novel in terms of the statutory provision that EPA is relying upon,” said William Boyd, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
By Adolfo Pesquera | November 25, 2024
Following an EPA $30.1 million settlement, Texas announced its own settlement for over $100 million with TPC Group.
By Daniel Novak | November 21, 2024
“If you can't block repeal, you can at least add more speed bumps," said Berkeley School of Law professor Daniel Farber.
By Raymond “Rusty” N. Pomeroy | November 21, 2024
New York City building owners faced with compliance obligations under New York City Local Law 97 of 2019’s strict greenhouse gas emissions caps are finding little relief from the law’s alternate compliance options. Rusty Pomeroy reviews the current state of play for some of Local Law 97’s built-in alternate compliance methods and discusses the DOB’s recent rulemaking establishing the “good faith efforts” requirements.
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