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The Last Year in CERCLA: Practitioners Should Take Note

Practitioners may want to take note of three subject areas and clusters of issues.
8 minute read

International Edition

5 DLA Piper Offices Back Peru Debt-for-Nature Swap

The pro bono effort involved advice to four environmental non-profits who helped redirect $20 million in sovereign debt payments toward conservation efforts in the Peruvian Amazon.
3 minute read

Law.com

Lawyers in Water Settlements With 3M and DuPont Want Nearly $1B in Legal Fees

Lead class counsel who reached a nearly $1.2 billion settlement with DuPont and a $10.5 billion deal with 3M are asking for nearly $1 billion in legal fees.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Environmental Groups Ask EPA to Intervene in an Ala. Water System They Say Is Plagued by Leaks

The petition was filed Monday by the Southern Environmental Law Center on behalf of the We Matter Eight Mile Community Association, a community-based organization that advocates for safe and affordable drinking water in Prichard, and more than 20 environmental justice and faith-based groups.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Decision of the Day: Oil Spill Complaint Is Denied Dismissal; Claims Not Shown Untimely Under Three-Year Period

This ruling was selected and summarized by the New York Law Journal's decision editors. 
2 minute read

The Recorder

In Trial Openings, Plaintiffs Present New Allegations About 'What's Really in the Bottle of Roundup'

Plaintiffs' lawyers focused on more than glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup, in attempting to convince jurors in two separate trials that the pesticide causes cancer.
5 minute read

Law.com

PFAS Claim Against Chemical Giants Survives Motion to Dismiss in Maine Federal Court

"Defendant 3M conducted studies in the 1950s and early 1960s that showed its perfluorooctanesulfonate (PFOS) accumulates in the human body and is toxic," stated U.S. Magistrate Judge John C. Nivison, in his written opinion for the court. "By the 1970s, additional 3M studies revealed that its PFOS products were 'even more toxic' than previously believed.
8 minute read

International Edition

Dentons Adds Planning Partner as Brisbane Prepares to Host Olympic Games

Mitchell Osborne has over 15 years of experience in environment and planning law, and is also a qualified town planner.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Dear California: Read the Rulings From New York. Courts Can't Solve Climate Crisis

The U.S. Court of Appeals for Second Circuit's 2021 ruling affirming dismissal of New York City's climate change lawsuit against the oil industry creates a clear road map for California's latest suit to be tossed, the director of the Law Reform Alliance of New York writes.
5 minute read

Law.com

Munger Tolles, Hueston Hennigan, Join Maui Wildfire Cases Growing Defense Teams

Hawaiian Electric Co., which has been named in more than 35 lawsuits, has brought in a team from Munger, Tolles & Olson spearheaded by partner Brad Brian. The state of Hawaii, another defendant, has turned to John Hueston of Hueston Hennigan.
5 minute read

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