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Cities’ effort to avoid county water discharge suit fails

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 17 2013

A California Court of Appeal has declined to dismiss claims by Los Angeles County that water discharges from nearby cities constitute a nuisance

Court finds harm indivisible and liability joint and several in CERCLA suit

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 17 2013

A federal court in Wisconsin has ruled that a defendant in a cost-recovery action under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and

Trial court finds effort to force EPA to publish oil dispersant guidelines filed too late

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 17 2013

A federal court in the District of Columbia has dismissed a lawsuit initiated by several environmental groups seeking to compel the U.S

5th Circuit dismisses claims GHGs intensified Hurricane Katrina on res judicata grounds

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 17 2013

On May 14, 2013, the 5th Circuit dismissed a suit filed by Mississippi Gulf Coast residents and property owners against more than 30 companies and

Court dismisses Los Angeles challenge to air emission controls for dry lake

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 17 2013

A federal court in California has dismissed the action for declaratory and injunctive relief filed by the City of Los Angeles (LA) challenging the

Fifth Circuit knocks out climate change liability lawsuit again

  • McCarter & English LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 16 2013

Res judicata is one of those phrases learned in law school that seemed of limited utility. How often is someone going to bring the same claim twice

Challenges on non hazardous secondary materials rule filed

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 13 2013

On May 7 and 8, eight cases were filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to review the Environmental Protection

Industry and environmental groups challenge new rules for commercial and industrial solid waste incinerators

  • Smith Gambrell & Russell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 13 2013

Petitions have been filed in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, challenging EPA rules, finalized in December, for

Federal appeals court muddies the waters: finds that EPA has the last word on disposal site selection even after Army Corps’ issuance of a Section 404 permit

  • Sullivan & Worcester LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 13 2013

In the contentious context of mountaintop removal mining, a federal appeals court recently held, in Mingo Logan Coal Co. v. EPA, No. 12-5150 (D.C

California Governor proposes reforms to Proposition 65, seeks to prevent abuse of statute by "unscrupulous lawyers"

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 13 2013

California Governor Edmund Brown has added his voice to a number of California legislators calling for an overhaul of the state's Safe Drinking Water