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New York City Planning Commission Approves Zoning Changes Supporting City’s Climate Goals
USA - September 21 2023 On Sept. 11, 2023, the City Planning Commission approved amendments to the New York City Zoning Resolution, called “City of Yes for Carbon Neutrality…
EPA Announces Its Final National Enforcement and Compliance Initiatives
USA - September 19 2023 On Aug. 17, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its final, revised National Enforcement and Compliance Initiatives (NECIs)…
Federal Government Continues Efforts to Reform Colorado River Operations
USA - June 22 2023 The U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) is seeking public comments on new strategies to replace the 2007 Colorado River Interim Guidelines for Lower…
Supreme Court Issues Decision Sharply Limiting Clean Water Act Jurisdiction over Wetlands
USA - May 26 2023 In 2004 Michael and Chantell Sackett bought property near Priest Lake, Idaho and backfilled the lot with dirt in preparation for building a house. A…
New York Adopts New Environmental Justice Law That Requires Consideration of ‘Disproportionate Impacts’ on Disadvantaged Communities for Permit Issuance and Renewal
USA - January 18 2023 Continuing the trend toward protecting environmental justice communities, New York Gov. Hochul is expected to sign a chapter amendment to a recently…
The Pennsylvania Environmental Rights Amendment and Statues
USA - December 19 2022 Last week, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, an intermediate appellate court, weighed in on whether the City of Philadelphia could remove a statue…
Oil and Gas and Another Questionable Pennsylvania Environmental Rights Amendment Decision
USA - September 22 2022 I recently wrote a column for The Legal Intelligencer’s Pennsylvania Law Weekly, reposted on this blog here, raising questions about whether the…
Using Florida’s amended summary judgment standard in litigation
USA - August 1 2022 Florida’s summary judgment standard has long frustrated attempts to achieve an early and appropriate resolution to litigation. The Florida Supreme…
Local Preemption and Wetlands in Massachusetts: An Update
USA - July 28 2022 The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) decided a case this week clarifying the limitation on a municipality’s ability to regulate wetlands…
DEP’s Municipal Harbor Plan Regulations Invalid
USA - July 15 2022 The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) did not have authority to give the Secretary…
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