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Time to Protect Your Business From Risks Associated With PFAS

By now, you may have heard of the emerging contaminant grabbing the attention of regulators across the country, known as “perfluoroalkyl” or “polyfluoroalkyl”…
5 minute read

The Recorder

Holland & Knight Alums Ditch Big Law to Start New Boutique

Holland & Knight land use partner Amanda Monchamp and former firm associate Joanna "Joey" Meldrum have co-founded Monchamp Meldrum in San Francisco.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

State Authority in NY to Preempt Local Laws Regulating Renewable Energy Projects

Environmental Law columnists Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan address a state statute, Article X of the Public Service Law, which allows the state to override local laws that are making it more difficult for the state to meet its renewable energy goals. The authors discuss the history and contents of Article X, the case law under it and its predecessors, and how it can be used to help the construction of renewable energy facilities.
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

Realty Law Digest

Scott E. Mollen, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein, discusses the landlord-tenant case “West Village Houses Renters Union v. WVH Housing Development Fund,” and the environmental law case “U.S. v. Whitehill.”
10 minute read

National Law Journal

Plaintiffs Lawyers in Flint Water Litigation Escalate Fight Over Fees, Clients

Ted Leopold and Michael Pitt, co-lead counsel for the lead class action brought on behalf of Flint residents, have asked U.S. District Judge Judith Levy, who is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to remove Hunter Shkolnik as one of two lawyers serving as liaison counsel to the individual cases.
7 minute read

The Recorder

Document: California Sues EPA to Keep State's Stricter Fuel-Efficiency Standards

Seventeen states and the District of Columbia filed the petition Tuesday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
1 minute read

Daily Business Review

BP Settlement Money Starts Flowing to Northwest Florida

BP settlement money is headed to new water and sewer lines for an industrial park, technical-education programs in two counties and expansion of the Port of Panama City.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Florida Congressional Leaders Blast Oil Drilling Changes

Members of Florida's congressional delegation from both sides of the political aisle denounced a White House proposal that they say would weaken offshore oil-drilling regulations.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Waters of the United States Rule: Posturing and Litigation Continue, But the Substance Has Yet to Be Addressed

When it comes to legal definitions, only a few have been as controversial for the real estate sector as what constitutes “the waters of the United States.”
11 minute read

New York Law Journal

Trade and Environment—Another Chance for Reconciliation?

International Environmental Law columnist Stephen L. Kass writes: I believe both economic and political logic, as well as geopolitical concerns, will lead the United States to agree to an updated NAFTA with Mexico and Canada, to try to rejoin and modify the TPP (which has now gone into effect, in simplified form, without the United States) and eventually to resume its negotiations for an expanded trade agreement with the EU. If that happens, the question for environmentalists and environmental lawyers is whether the new agreements will provide an opportunity to improve and expand the kinds of environmental protection built into the new trade agreements.
8 minute read

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