Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 1 Feb 2013
The prime contractor for an Oregon Department of Transportation project on U.S. Highway 20 has agreed to pay a $735,000 penalty to resolve…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 17 Aug 2012
A federal court in Washington state has dismissed a challenge to the environmental impact statement (EIS) prepared by the state department of transportation and the Federal Highway Administration for a $586.5-million project that would replace a floating bridge connecting Seattle to its eastern suburbs.
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 18 May 2012
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NC DOT ) and the Federal Highway Administration (FH A) violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NE PA) when they approved an $800-million toll road project near Charlotte, N.C.
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 24 Feb 2012
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a district court decision rejecting a challenge under the National Environmental Policy Act to the construction of a highway bridge in Martin County, Florida.
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 24 Feb 2012
The City of San Francisco has sued the U.S. Department of Transportation alleging that the agency’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration was negligent in supervising state regulatory agencies and public utilities, which left gas pipeline operators in California unregulated, and purportedly contributed to a natural gas pipeline rupture and explosion.
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 23 Sep 2011
A former waste-company executive was reportedly sentenced to serve 50 months in prison for fraud arising from his participation in a multimilliondollar kickback scheme involving contracts for a New Jersey CERCLA site and for impeding a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC ) investigation.
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 23 Sep 2011
A federal court in Pennsylvania has dismissed a challenge to a Pittsburgh demolition project because the court found no federal involvement with the project.
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 12 Aug 2011
A federal court in Virginia has ruled that an environmental group lacks standing to challenge the Department of Defense’s (DOD’s) procurement of fuel from Canadian oil sands.
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 21 Jan 2011
Wild Earth Guardians and the Sierra Club have sued EPA in a federal court in California alleging that the agency has failed to take final action in a timely manner on at least six states' revised infrastructure state implementation plans (SIPs) and failed to submit a sufficient plan for 32 states for controlling fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) under the Clean Air Act (CAA).
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 24 Sep 2010
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a contractor retained by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) is not immune from liability in a lawsuit seeking damages for work it performed around a floodwall that failed during Hurricane Katrina.