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The EPA's Most Significant Actions of 2019
Law360
January 13, 2020
Ninth Circuit Affirms Lower Court Decision to Apply Constructive Submission Doctrine and Compel EPA to Issue a Temperature TMDL for Rivers in Washington and Oregon
MGKF Litigation Blog
January 9, 2020
Federal Claims Court Finds U.S. Government Liable to Private Property Owners for Tropical Storm Harvey Flooding
MGKF Litigation Blog
December 30, 2019
Reluctant to Unbuild, Courts Rule Against Challengers of Already-Completed Energy Projects
MGKF Litigation Blog
December 23, 2019
Third Circuit Holds Contribution Action Accrues on Entry of Consent Order but Doesn’t Decide Which Limitations Period Applies
MGKF Litigation Blog
November 26, 2019
New Pa. DEP Fill Material Increases Project Complexity
Law360
November 25, 2019
NJ Superior Court Upholds Municipal Courts’ Jurisdiction to Issue Civil Penalties Under the N.J. Spill Act
MGKF Litigation Blog
November 18, 2019
Environmental Groups, State AGs Challenge Endangered Species Act Revisions
The Legal Intelligencer
November 14, 2019
Fifth Circuit Rules Landfill Odors Are Permanent Nuisance
MGKF Litigation Blog
November 4, 2019
Montana Supreme Court Holds No Private Right of Enforcement of Water Use Act
MGKF Litigation Blog
October 28, 2019
Federal Court Holds Medical Monitoring Available for PFAS Exposure
MGKF Litigation Blog
October 14, 2019
Court Holds Most Defendants Can't Escape Liability at Premcor Refinery Site
MGKF Litigation Blog
October 3, 2019
NJ Court Holds Public Trust Doctrine Trumps Exclusivity Element of Trespass Claim
The Legal Intelligencer
October 3, 2019
Third Circuit Holds That Private Companies Cannot Condemn State-Owned Property Under the National Gas Act
MGKF Litigation Blog
September 17, 2019
Waiver Results In Sixth Circuit Rejecting Challenge to Aribtration Provision in Superfund Settlement Agreement
MGKF Litigation Blog
September 12, 2019
Seventh Circuit Holds That Resolving Some Cleanup Liability Under Any Statute Triggers a Contribution Action
MGKF Litigation Blog
September 12, 2019
Third Circuit Holds State Law Determines Just Compensation For Takings By Natural Gas Companies
MGKF Litigation Blog
August 16, 2019
NJ Supreme Court Vacates Spill Act Arbitration Decision
MGKF Litigation Blog
August 5, 2019
Breaking From Other Districts, US District Court Of Rhode Island Remands Climate Change Public-Nuisance Case To State Court
MGKF Litigation Blog
August 2, 2019
Proceeds from Oil and Gas Leases Must Be Used for Conservation Purposes Under PA's Environmental Rights Amendment
MGKF Litigation Blog
July 31, 2019
Ninth Circuit Upholds Broad Release of CERCLA Claims
MGKF Litigation Blog
July 30, 2019
EPA Finalizes Affordable Clean Energy Rule
The Legal Intelligencer
July 30, 2019
Supreme Court Decision in Knick Paves Direct Path to Federal Court for Property Owners
MGKF Litigation Blog
July 23, 2019
Supreme Court Limits Deference Owed to Agency Interpretations of Regulations
MGKF Litigation Blog
July 18, 2019
Commonwealth Court Upholds Environmental Hearing Board’s Denial of Sierra Club’s Fee Petition in Third-Party Permit Challenge
MGKF Litigation Blog
June 25, 2019
Energy Companies Prevail Against Landowners In Two Cases Involving Subsurface Drilling
MGKF Litigation Blog
June 14, 2019
Ninth Circuit Holds Forest Service’s Failure To Regulate Use Of Lead Ammunition Creates Justiciable Controversy Under RCRA
MGKF Litigation Blog
June 4, 2019
Two Recent Cases Underscore the Importance of Highly Skilled Expert Witnesses on Causation
MGKF Litigation Blog
May 20, 2019
PA Supreme Court Declines Appeal, Leaving Commonwealth Court’s Interpretation of the Environmental Rights Amendment Intact
MGKF Litigation Blog
May 16, 2019
D.C. Circuit Largely Upholds EPA’s Treatment of Confidentiality Under TSCA
MGKF Litigation Blog
April 30, 2019
Eighth Circuit Upholds Finding that Dico Arranged For Disposal under CERCLA
MGKF Litigation Blog
April 22, 2019
MDL Court Denies Response Contractors’ Motions to Dismiss in Gold King Mine Case
MGKF Litigation Blog
March 28, 2019
Supreme Court Finds Duty to Warn of Potential Asbestos Exposure and Adopts a Required Part Standard in Maritime Toxic Tort Context
MGKF Litigation Blog
March 28, 2019
EDPA Dismisses Putative Class Action Nuisance and Negligence
MGKF Litigation Blog
March 18, 2019
MDL Court Finds Federal Government Not Entitled to Sovereign Immunity for Gold King Mine Release
MGKF Litigation Blog
March 7, 2019
Delaware Superior Court Holds DNREC Cannot Use Cease-and-Desist Authority to Mandate Corrective Action
MGKF Litigation Blog
March 5, 2019
Can Bystanders Make Failure-to-Warn Claims in Toxic Tort Cases?
The Legal Intelligencer
February 26, 2019
District Court Rejects “Anticipatory” Pre-Suit Notice Letter in Dismissing Clean Water Act Claim
MGKF Litigation Blog
February 11, 2019
Sixth Circuit Holds Forced Pooling Is Not A Taking
MGKF Litigation Blog
February 7, 2019
California District Court Decision on Statute of Limitations in Contribution Actions Further Complicates Issue for Practitioners
MGKF Litigation Blog
January 29, 2019
How States Are Regulating Environmental Impacts of a Newly Legalized Industry
The Legal Intelligencer
January 15, 2019
New Jersey Appellate Division Holds Judicial Estoppel as Available Defense to Spill Act Claims for Contribution
MGKF Litigation Blog
January 10, 2019
Ways to Make Your Workplace More Inclusive
The Legal Intelligencer - Insight on Diversity
January 8, 2019
Fourth Circuit Finds Forest Service Did Not Speak For The Trees
MGKF Litigation Blog
December 17, 2018
Climate Change Petition Calls for Cap-and-Trade Program in Pennsylvania
MGKF News Flash
December 13, 2018
SCOTUS Endangered Species Act Decision Suggests More Probing Judicial Review of Agency Critical Habitat Designations
MGKF Litigation Blog
December 10, 2018
District of New Jersey Finds the Government Not Liable for Remediation Costs Associated with Former Chromite Defense Site
MGKF Litigation Blog
December 4, 2018
An Environmental Rights Amendment for NJ: Panacea or Portent?
New Jersey Law Journal
November 21, 2018
Another CWA Case Alleging Discharges to Groundwater Is Dismissed
MGKF Litigation Blog
November 19, 2018
PA Commonwealth Court Finds Municipalities Lack Authority to Regulate Environmental Issues Reserved to PADEP
MGKF Litigation Blog
November 1, 2018
Third Circuit Allows Medical Monitoring Claims to Proceed for Groundwater Contamination at Willow Grove and Warminster Naval Facilities
MGKF Litigation Blog
October 11, 2018
Third Circuit Holds Current Owners May Be Liable for Past Remediation Costs Under CERCLA
MGKF Litigation Blog
October 10, 2018
In Circuit Split, the 6th Circ. Limits CWA’s Reach Over Pollutants That Travel Through Groundwater
MGKF Litigation Blog
October 8, 2018
Commonwealth Court Upholds DEP’s “Soil-to-Groundwater” Theory as Basis for Daily Penalties Under the Clean Streams Law
MGKF Litigation Blog
October 1, 2018
W.D. Pa. Declines to Hold Parent Corporations Liable
MGKF Litigation Blog
September 27, 2018
Climate Change Scorecard: Affordable Clean Energy Rule Versus Clean Power Plan
The Legal Intelligencer
September 17, 2018
Third Circuit Vacates and Remands District Court’s “Speculative” Equitable Allocation
MGKF Litigation Blog
September 17, 2018
Third Circuit Rules on Jurisdiction and the Environmental Rights Amendment
MGKF Litigation Blog
September 5, 2018
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Again on Municipal Zoning Ordinance for Oil and Gas Development
MGKF Litigation Blog
August 25, 2018
FERC's Hard Look at Pipeline Construction and GHG Emissions
The Legal Intelligencer - Energy & Environmental Law Supplement
August 6, 2018
Fifth Circuit Affirms Sovereign Immunity Bars CERCLA Claims Against State Agencies and Universities
MGKF Litigation Blog
August 6, 2018
Sixth Circuit Panel Endorses “Broad View” of Class Certification in Toxic Tort Case
MGKF Litigation Blog
July 24, 2018

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