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New Jersey Law Journal

Where Insurance Coverage Meets the Environment: Insights from 2016 and 2017

While 2016 and 2017 have presented a mixed bag of results for insureds and insurers alike, the results highlight the fact that creative lawyers and courts are nowhere near resolving "as a matter of law" the complex and complicated overlap between retroactive environmental laws with occurrence based liability insurance policies.
15 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Superfund Sites: Sweeping Up the Past, Present and Future

Of the 1,343 current Superfund National Priority List (NPL) sites in the nation, over 15 percent are in New Jersey or Pennsylvania. One hundred and fourteen of the sites are in New Jersey, and 95 are in Pennsylvania, the first and third highest totals of any state. The NPL is intended to target and identify the most severe or complex contaminated sites in the country.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

West Palm Beach Sues Federal Government Over State Road 7 Extension

The lawsuit claims the project will harm the Grassy Waters Preserve, which provides drinking water for the city and a habitat for several endangered species.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

The Plumbing Supply, LLC v. ExxonMobil Oil Corp.

Fraud Claim Sustained Where Plaintiff Pled Motive and Misstatements with Particularity
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Pier 55 Project's End Surprises the Lawyers Involved

Mogul Barry Diller's decision to end his quest to build a $250 million floating island in the Hudson River after lengthy litigation surprised even the lawyers on both sides. Diller cited the escalating costs.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Exxon, Paul Weiss Weather Ups and Downs on Climate Change

The oil company and its lawyers got some good news and some bad news this week in what may be a rising sea of litigation tied to climate change.
17 minute read

New York Law Journal

Harvey, Irma and the World

International Environmental Law columnist Stephen L. Kass writes: The startling scenes of urban devastation in Texas following Hurricane Harvey and in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina following Hurricane Irma are a microcosm of what climate change holds for major cities throughout the world—and a wake-up call for the United States that it is time to get serious about climate adaptation both at home and abroad.
21 minute read

New York Law Journal

Uncertainty About Hydrologically Connected Groundwater Has Implications in New York

In their Environmental Law column, Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan write: Federal district courts are divided over whether the Clean Water Act prohibits discharges to groundwater when the subsurface receiving water is so closely connected to waters of the United States that it serves as a direct conduit to introduce pollutants to surface waters. Because the failure to have a permit for a regulated discharge can lead to significant compliance obligations, material fines and penalties and can be enforced by private citizens, this unresolved question has far-reaching consequences.
7 minute read

National Law Journal

Trump EPA GC Nominee Discloses Nearly $300K in Income From Carlton Fields

The president's pick for general counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Matthew Leopold, reported his income and clients in White House financial disclosure forms.
14 minute read

Daily Business Review

EPA Grants Pollution Waiver to Florida Utilities After Irma

State and federal environmental regulators issued a blanket waiver for Florida electricity companies to violate clean air and water standards without penalty for the next two weeks.
3 minute read

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