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National Law Journal

EPA's Scott Pruitt Questions Power of Another Federal Agency to Reduce Emissions

The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is warning federal consumer product-safety regulators that their lifesaving effort to restrict the emissions of portable generators could fall outside the scope of their authority. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt suggested that the Consumer Product Safety Commission's rule-making could intrude on the environmental agency's powers.
5 minute read

International Edition

Thames Water to put together new 'complex' legal panel with BLP fixed-fee role up for review

Water company invites firms to tender for BLP's managed legal services role alongside new panel for 'high-visibility, substantial and complex work'
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Legal Week

Thames Water to put together new 'complex' legal panel with BLP fixed-fee role up for review

Water company invites firms to tender for BLP's managed legal services role alongside new panel for 'high-visibility, substantial and complex work'
2 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

NJ Environmental Law's Top 10 of 2017

This article identifies 2017's top 10 state environmental issues, many of which will continue to have a long shelf life.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Smith v. Pa. Dep't of Envtl. Protection, PICS Case No. 17-0853 (Pa. Commw. May 8, 2017) Pellegrini, S. J. (30 pages).

OOR erred in holding that a "well site" was not an "industrial plant" and court found that investigative reports pertaining to well sites were public records in a RTKL action but OOR correctly held that DEP met its burden of showing that certain records were exempt under the attorney-client privilege and/or work product doctrine, records relating to the location of radioactive material were exempt under public safety and security concerns, other documents were exempt under trade secret and confidential information, the notes and working papers, internal predecisional deliberation and noncriminal investigation exemptions. Affirmed in part and reversed in part.
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The Recorder

Orange County Water District v. Alcoa Global Fasteners, Inc.

C.A. 4th; D070771 The Fourth Appellate District affirmed in part and reversed in part a judgment and remanded. The court held that a water district may…
3 minute read

The Recorder

Orange County Water District v. MAG Aerospace Industries, Inc.

C.A. 4th; D070562 The Fourth Appellate District affirmed a judgment. The court held that a water district failed to show that pollutants in the shallow…
5 minute read

The Recorder

Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation v. California Regional Water Quality Control Board

C.A. 4th; D070171 The Fourth Appellate District affirmed a judgment. The court held that the trial court properly applied the independent standard of…
3 minute read

The Recorder

POET, LLC v. State Air Resources Board

5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Bartlett v. Honeywell International, Inc.

CERCLA Preempts Nuisance, Other Claims About Superfund Site Remediation Dredging
3 minute read

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