Second Circuit stays construction of pipeline for failure to examine environmental impacts of Marcellus drilling *

USA - February 29 2012
In what could be a significant precedential decision, on February 17, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted an emergency temporary stay of construction activity on a proposed interstate pipeline and related pipeline facilities in Pennsylvania, serving the Marcellus Shale.

Co-authors: Deidre G. Duncan, Robert E. Hogfoss.

Second Circuit denies stay of construction of pipeline *

USA - February 29 2012
On February 28, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit lifted an emergency temporary stay of construction activity the court had granted a week earlier on a proposed interstate pipeline and related pipeline facilities in Pennsylvania, serving the Marcellus Shale.

Co-authors: Deidre G. Duncan, Robert E. Hogfoss.

DHS releases final guidance for developing site security plans under chemical security regulation *

USA - May 21 2009
Taking the final steps in its implementation of the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released important guidance documents on May 15, 2009, and began notifying covered facilities of their final risk-tier designation.

Co-authors: Steven P. Solow, Evan D. Wolff, Maida Oringher Lerner, Brooks M. Smith, Matthew D. Melewski.