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Port authority agrees to significant penalties for wetlands and historic preservation violations

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Puerto Rico, USA
  • -
  • April 19 2013

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has lodged a consent decree in a federal court in Puerto Rico involving allegations that the Authority for the

Puerto Rican city to upgrade sewer system according to proposed consent decree

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Puerto Rico, USA
  • -
  • June 15 2012

The city of Arecibo, Puerto Rico, has agreed to spend $56 million to upgrade its wastewater treatment system as part of a settlement of alleged Clean Water Act violations

Puerto Rico approves electronic waste disposal law

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Puerto Rico
  • -
  • February 24 2012

Puerto Rico recently enacted the “Electronic Recycling and Disposal Act” (Law 18-2012) designed to reduce sources of electronic waste and provide for proper storage and disposal

Study links traffic-related air pollution to stroke

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Puerto Rico
  • -
  • February 24 2012

Puerto Rico recently enacted the “Electronic Recycling and Disposal Act” (Law 18-2012) designed to reduce sources of electronic waste and provide for proper storage and disposal

Groups sue to halt Puerto Rican waste-to-energy project

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Puerto Rico
  • -
  • February 3 2012

Local environmental groups, supported by a chapter of the Sierra Club, have sued Puerto Rican authorities seeking to block a $50-million proposed waste-to-energy facility in Barceloneta, arguing that an environmental impact statement (EIS) is inadequate

First Circuit finds no valid due process claim against Puerto Rican environmental agency

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Puerto Rico, USA
  • -
  • October 28 2011

The First Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit alleging that Puerto Rican environmental authorities denied plaintiff’s due process rights by threatening enforcement unless plaintiff complied with state waste regulations

Puerto Rico sewer authority to settle CWA violations

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Puerto Rico, USA
  • -
  • May 14 2010

The Puerto Rico Aqueduct & Sewer Authority has entered a proposed consent decree, in which it agreed to spend $195 million on improvements to 126 drinking water plants across the island over the next 15 years to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act (CWA