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Connecticut Law Tribune

Solar Energy vs. Farmland Pits Green Against Green

An unfortunate kerfuffle has risen between those wanting to preserve prime agricultural land — some of it lying fallow in Connecticut's moribund farming economy — and another constituency also on the green side of things seeking more renewable energy through photovoltaics.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Agency Proposes New Regulation on Perc Use by Dry Cleaners

State Environmental Regulation columnist Charlotte A. Biblow writes that about 70 percent of the dry cleaners located in the state still use perc as their solvent of choice, despite a 1997 regulation encouraging them to switch to alternate solvents. A new proposal would impose significant financial and management costs on dry cleaners, and have significant implications for their suppliers, workers, landlords and neighbors.
9 minute read

The American Lawyer

MoFo Practice Leader Leaves for Baker Botts' Bay Area Base

Baker Botts has recruited environmental partner Christopher Carr in San Francisco from Morrison & Foerster, where he was chair of the latter's environment and energy group and co-chair of the firm's unmanned aerial systems and drone group.
27 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. High Court Addresses Scope of the Environmental Rights Amendment

On June 20, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a significant and potentially far-reaching opinion in Pennsylvania Environmental Defense Foundation (PEDF) v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 2017 Pa. LEXIS 1393, No. 10 MAP 2015 (June 20, 2017).
9 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

EPA Budget Cuts: Welcome Change or Cause for Concern?

The Trump administration's proposed budget cut of approximately 25 percent of the Environmental Protection Agency's enforcement budget ($129 million) is consistent with candidate Trump's platform targeting the EPA for failing to appropriately favor crucial business interests against what he perceives as environmentalists hell-bent on the dismantlement of the U.S. industrial base.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Energy-Dominance Agenda and Regulatory Challenges

On March 28, President Donald Trump signed the presidential executive order on Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth. This executive order hopes to be the catalyst to "unleash America's $50 trillion in untapped shale, oil and natural gas reserves, plus hundreds of years in clean coal reserves." And by doing so, it aims to make the United States the global leader in fossil-fuel production and achieve not just "energy independence," but "energy dominance"—a phrase that was front and center during the Trump administration's (June 26–30, 2017), "Energy Week."
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Developing Distressed Property: Desirability and Viability

Location, Location, Location. This remains one of the critical aspect of real estate development. The other is that "it's not about the money, it's about the money." So, while the redevelopment of Brownfields makes people feel good, at the end of the day, a Brownfield site has to be in the right location for a redeveloper or buyer, and has to make economic sense. Currently, a number of trends in real estate desirability are making Brownfield sites the perfect location for redevelopment and reuse. At the same time, as programs concerning cleanup, funding and risk management have become more favorable, the return on investment, or economic viability, of properties has also increased.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Energy/Environmental Law

In The Legal's Energy/Environmental Law supplement, read about EPA budget cuts, endangered species and project planning, and the scope of the ERA.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Threatened, Endangered Species Playing Role in Project Planning

Rusty patched bumble bees, part of a group of native pollinators with an economic value of $3 billion per year in the United States, are declining in number. Rusty Patched Bumble Bee (Bombus affinis), according to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Endangered Species. Historically, the species inhabited 28 states throughout the eastern United States and the upper Midwest, including Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
14 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Will Texas Ruling Impact Pa.'s Oil and Gas Jurisprudence?

Anyone associated with oil and gas development has probably had a conversation about what constitutes a trespass, and whether there is an improper taking associated with drilling activities.
12 minute read

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