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New York Law Journal

Navigating NY's Pioneering Environmental Justice Law: Implications and Predictions

This law has been coined the "nation's strongest environmental justice law." It also marks a significant step in ensuring that environmental burdens are more equitably distributed and that historically marginalized areas are not further compromised by industrial activities and development.
7 minute read

National Law Journal

PFAS' Regulatory Scrutiny Here to Stay Despite Legal Challenges, Environmental Experts Say

Regulation of "forever chemicals" is "an issue that's not going to go away for industry and will have to be dealt with," said attorney Gerald Higdon.
5 minute read

International Edition

Advocates Step Up Efforts to Block White & Case-Guided Stock Listing

Brazilian meat behemoth JBS, which has a checkered environmental track record, hopes to raise capital on the New York Stock Exchange.
7 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Exxon Mobil Assistant GC Joins Duane Morris as Trial Partner in Houston and NY

Exxon Mobil Corp. assistant general counsel Joseph Walsh joined Duane Morris as a trial partner in Houston and New York, where he will do commercial and environmental litigation.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

Sizing Up a Potential Trump Presidency, Some Big Law Practices Turn to Political Crystal Ball

"I feel like I'm being looked to as a political prognosticator," said one Hogan Lovells regulatory partner.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

Burns & Levinson Continues Shedding Talent With Environmental Team Leaving for Verrill

The five-lawyer team based in Boston was attracted to Verrill because of its geographic spread and the reputation of its Portland-based environmental team.
3 minute read

International Edition

Environmental Group Launches Greenwashing Complaints Against Lululemon in France and Canada

As competition regimes around the world look to rein in deceptive environmental claims, multinationals are  likely to face investigations in multiple jurisdictions.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Tightening the Reins on Administrative Agencies

In Corner Post v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the court held that the six-year statute of limitations applicable to suits under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) challenging administrative agency regulations does not begin to run when the regulations are published but rather when the plaintiff was injured by final agency action.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Intervention and the Environmental Rights Amendment

Because the courts have not fleshed out all the nuances of what the Environmental Rights Amendment means, this superficially procedural decision may have important implications for how that constitutional jurisprudence develops.
7 minute read

International Edition

General Counsel Should Help Prevent Greenwashing, Australia Securities Regulator Says

The Australian Securities & Investments Commission has been very focused on greenwashing and is likely to launch more prosecutions.
5 minute read

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