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Environmental Forecast: A Look Ahead at a Busy Biden White House, a Packed Agenda at DEP, and What it Means for Pennsylvania Business and Industry
Catalyst - a publication of the PA Chamber of Business and Industry
March 29, 2021
SCOTUS Further Defines Deliberative Process Documents Exempt From FOIA
MGKF Litigation Blog
March 15, 2021
Weighing Two Circuit Splits, Ohio District Court Allows Declaratory Judgment and Contribution Claims to Proceed
MGKF Litigation Blog
March 12, 2021
Challenge to Superfund Settlement Rejected by First Circuit, Highlighting CERCLA Risks to Non-Settling PRPs
MGKF Litigation Blog
February 28, 2021
D.C. Circuit Stays Mandate to Consider Clean Power Plan Afresh, Effectively Ending the CPP
MGKF Litigation Blog
February 25, 2021
Changes on Tap for Stream and Wetlands Permitting
The Legal Intelligencer
February 23, 2021
Pennsylvania Court Holds that Clean Water Act and Clean Streams Law are not Comparable, Permitting Citizens Suit to Proceed
MGKF Litigation Blog
February 23, 2021
New “Habitat” Rule for the Endangered Species Act Finalized
MGKF Litigation Blog
January 29, 2021
D.C. Circuit Vacates and Remands Trump Administration’s Affordable Clean Energy Rule
MGKF Litigation Blog
January 27, 2021
Federal Court Tells WWII Waste Generators, “You'd Better Not Pout,” Awards Government $50 Million in Cleanup Costs
MGKF Litigation Blog
December 23, 2020
Court Upholds Private NGO Settlement Agreement that Supplements Federal Consent Decree
MGKF Litigation Blog
December 8, 2020
First Circuit Upholds Remand of Climate Change Suit To State Court
MGKF Litigation Blog
November 26, 2020
Southern District of Texas Finds US Liable to Exxon for $20.3 Million
The Legal Intelligencer
November 13, 2020
Alaska Enviro Suit Shows Gov't Is A Tough Tort Defendant
Law360
November 5, 2020
PA Court Rejects Environmental Rights Amendment Challenge to Appropriation of Oil and Gas Lease Funds for DCNR’s General Operations
MGKF Litigation Blog
November 2, 2020
Southern District of Texas’s Opinion Offers a Look Behind the CERCLA Allocation Curtain
MGKF Litigation Blog
October 26, 2020
United States Found Not Liable As Operator Under CERCLA For Shutdown Order
MGKF Litigation Blog
October 22, 2020
EPA Final Rules Amend Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Oil and Gas Industry
The Legal Intelligencer
September 28, 2020
Future Response Costs Held In Trust May Not Be Recoverable in CERCLA Contribution Action
MGKF Litigation Blog
September 23, 2020
Failure to Define "Matters Addressed" in CERCLA Settlement Leaves Party Exposed To Contribution Claim
MGKF Litigation Blog
September 16, 2020
Ninth Circuit Holds That “Discretionary Function” Defense Does Not Bar Claims Against the United States
MGKF Litigation Blog
September 14, 2020
Eleventh Circuit Finds CERCLA’s Discovery Tolling Provision Does Not Apply to Personal Injury Claims Subject to the Price-Anderson Act
MGKF Litigation Blog
September 3, 2020
Ninth Circuit Reverses Lower Court Decision Regarding Statute of Limitations Triggering Event for Superfund Contribution Claim
MGKF Litigation Blog
August 18, 2020
D.C. Circuit Holds that EPA Does Not Need to Consider Mitigation in NPL Decision
MGKF Litigation Blog
August 10, 2020
Ohio District Court Addresses CERCLA Limitations Periods in Dismissing Claim
MGKF Litigation Blog
August 7, 2020
Second Circuit Clarifies That There Can Be More Than One Remedial Action Under CERCLA For Statute of Limitations Purposes
MGKF Litigation Blog
August 4, 2020
Permit Me to Explain Superfund Restricts State and Local Permitting Requirements
2020 Natural Resources & Environment by the American Bar Association
July 28, 2020
New York Court of Appeals Reinstates Finding That A Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity Provides an Exemption from Public Review
MGKF Litigation Blog
July 27, 2020
Third Circuit Revives Class Action Odor Lawsuit Against Pennsylvania Landfill
MGKF Litigation Blog
July 20, 2020
Trial Court Finds Broad Assumption of Liabilities in Corporate Minutes Sufficient to Confer Personal Jurisdiction and Impose Liability
MGKF Litigation Blog
July 14, 2020
PA Court Affirms That De Facto Takings Must be Shown to Have Been Result of Deliberate and Purposeful Action
MGKF Litigation Blog
July 6, 2020
Reversing the Fourth Circuit, US Supreme Court Finds Forest Service Can Lease Land Under Park Service Trails
MGKF Litigation Blog
June 16, 2020
Air Chapter of the 9th Edition of the New Jersey Environmental Law Handbook
New Jersey Environmental Law Handbook (Ninth Edition)
June 5, 2020
The New Clean Water Act 'Functional Equivalent' for Indirect Discharge Permitting
The Legal Intelligencer
June 4, 2020
N.J. Appellate Division Applies "More Liberal" Certification Standards To Property Owner Class
MGKF Litigation Blog
June 1, 2020
Two Courts Require Symptomatic Condition for Tort Claims and Place Limitations on Availability of Medical Monitoring Damages
MGKF Litigation Blog
May 22, 2020
Third Circuit Finds U.S. Government Not Liable as an Operator under CERCLA for Former Chromite Defense Site
MGKF Litigation Blog
May 11, 2020
Supreme Court Establishes "Functional Equivalent” Standard for Permitting Discharges to Groundwater Under the Clean Water Act
MGKF Litigation Blog
April 23, 2020
U.S. Supreme Court Holds State Courts Can Hear Challenges To EPA-Approved Clean-Ups
MGKF Litigation Blog
April 22, 2020
Federal Circuit Dismisses Takings Claim Relating to Environmental Contamination for Being Out of Time
MGKF Litigation Blog
April 21, 2020
Court Finds Harm from Commingled Groundwater Plume Divisible Under Section 107(a) of CERCLA
MGKF Litigation Blog
April 17, 2020
NJ Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal of State’s Trespass Claim in NRD Lawsuit
MGKF Litigation Blog
April 15, 2020
Court Holds Environmental Penalties Are Dischargeable In Bankruptcy
MGKF Litigation Blog
April 1, 2020
California District Court Finds Temporary Diminution in Property Value Sufficient to Withstand Summary Judgment on Common Law Claims
MGKF Litigation Blog
March 26, 2020
PA Court Allows Township to Challenge Validity of State Statutes Under Environmental Rights Amendment
MGKF Litigation Blog
March 11, 2020
D.C. Circuit Follows Trend on Non-CERCLA Settlements Leaving Guam Footing $160M CERCLA Bill
MGKF Litigation Blog
March 3, 2020
Will PFAS Litigation Revive Class Treatment for Medical Monitoring Claims?
The Legal Intelligencer
February 28, 2020
Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Dismisses Environmental Rights Amendment Challenge
MGKF Litigation Blog
February 24, 2020
Third Circuit Holds That “Stigma Damages” for Pipeline Projects Must be Supported by Objective, Reliable Evidence
MGKF Litigation Blog
February 14, 2020
Magistrate Recommends Common Law Claims Against Air Force Barred by Sovereign Immunity
MGKF Litigation Blog
February 3, 2020
Rule of Capture Applies to Hydraulic Fracturing in PA, but Door is Still Open to Trespass and Conversion Claims
MGKF Litigation Blog
January 27, 2020
EDPA Dismisses Medical Monitoring Claims for PFOS/PFOA
MGKF Litigation Blog
January 21, 2020
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

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