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Comprehensive Spending Review 2010 key issues

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • October 21 2010

The first thing to note about the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) is that the document itself is around 100 pages shorter than its 2007 predecessor

CON29 and the EIR - East Riding and beyond

  • Cobbetts LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • August 13 2010

In this newsletter, we look at the on-going dispute between local authorities and property search companies relating to charging for local search information, and the application of the Environmental Information Regulation (EIR) to that

Remediation and liability: do it safely or else

  • Wragge & Co LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • August 12 2009

The High Court decision in Corby Group Litigation v Corby District Council highlights the need for organisations, including local authorities and developers, to take their environmental responsibilities seriously, particularly when dealing with the reclamation of land

EPA to assist communities in Sustainable Building Blocks Program

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • USA
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  • February 11 2011

EPA announced February 3, 2011, that it will work with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Transportation to help communities achieve “sustainable planning” through the Sustainable Communities Building Blocks Program

GSA's green proving ground program

  • Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 4 2011

On April 21, 2011, the U.S. General Services Administration ("GSA") announced that it has selected sixteen sustainable building technologies to be tested and evaluated at a number of federal facilities throughout the country

Corps drops appeal over wetlands rules

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
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  • USA
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  • June 21 2011

As we wrote earlier, in New Hope Power Company and Okeelanta Corporation v. United States Army Corps of Engineers and Steven L. Stockton, U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore of the Southern District of Florida enjoined the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' from enforcing its guidance documents, which modified the Corps's interpretation of its wetlands regulations

Revocation of regional strategies

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 12 2011

On 6 April, the Government announced through Planning Minister Bob Neill that it had "decided to carry out an environmental assessment of the revocation of the regional strategies"

Marine and Coastal Area Act

  • Simpson Grierson
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  • New Zealand
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  • March 25 2011

The political dust may take some time to settle, but the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act 2011 (MACA Act) will be in force by the end of the month

Municipality held liable for damages relating to purchase of contaminated property

  • Torys LLP
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  • Canada
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  • April 4 2011

In Biskey v. Corp. of the Municipality of Chatham-Kent, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice found the Municipality of Chatham-Kent (CK) liable to pay C$386,142 in damages to the Biskeys, a couple who purchased contaminated property from the Kaminskis, a private party

280: Analysis - has the coalition delivered on planning?

  • Bircham Dyson Bell
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  • United Kingdom
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  • September 29 2011

Back in May 2010, the coalition agreement was drawn up between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, setting out their programme for government