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How the Erika continues to shape French oil pollution legislation

  • Ince & Co LLP
  • -
  • France, Global
  • -
  • April 25 2013

On 12 December 1999, the oil tanker Erika sank off the coast of Brittany, leading to the contamination of more than 400km of coastline: one of the

High Speed Rail Authority ready for construction after settling environmental lawsuits

  • Stoel Rives LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 23 2013

On the eve of target date to commence construction, the California High-Speed Rail Authority (the "Authority") managed to settle the remaining

Hawaiian dry dock owner to pay $710,000 to resolve Clean Water Act claims

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 12 2013

The U.S. Department of Justice has lodged a proposed consent decree to resolve allegations that a Hawaiian ship repair facility and dry dock operator

California truck program challenge

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 8 2013

On April 1, the Supreme Court agreed to allow U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli to argue against a concession agreement involving the clean

Revised MARPOL Annex V: just who should take out the trash?

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • March 8 2013

Following a review by the Correspondence Group established by the Marine Environment Protection Committee in 2006, various amendments to MARPOL Annex

German companies to pay $1.2 million for ocean dumping

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 16 2012

Two German shipping companies have agreed to pay a $1.2-million criminal penalty for violations of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships

South Carolina Supreme Court determines state lacked authority to approve dredging project

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 16 2012

The South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) lacked authority to approve a Clean Water Act (CWA) section 401 water-quality certification for a project to deepen the Savannah River

Diesel engine manufacturers oppose Navistar ruling

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 4 2012

Daimler Trucks North America LLC, Detroit Diesel Corp., Mack Trucks Inc., and Volvo North America LLC sued the Environmental Protection Agency October 26 in the U.S

Corps sued over Alaska railway project

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 19 2012

After the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals halted the proposed Port MacKenzie rail-extension project for further consideration of environmental impacts, additional opponents separately sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) to overturn the Clean Water Act (CWA) permit the Corps granted for the project

Ninth Circuit halts Alaska railway construction

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 12 2012

A split Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel has issued a stay pending review of the Surface Transportation Board’s (STB’s) order allowing construction of approximately 35 miles of railroad spur to connect the Port MacKenzie District in south-central Alaska to the Alaska Railroad Corp.’s existing main line