COVID-19 UPDATE April 23, 2020 Bruce S. Katcher MGKF Special Alert On April 21, 2020, in an apparent move to distance itself from EPA’s approach to enforcement and compliance during the COVID-19 outbreak (the EPA policy is reviewed in our April 2 Alert), NJDEP issued a Compliance Alert entitled “Environmental Compliance […]
April 22, 2020 Kimberly Bick, Esq. The Supreme Court ruled today on an important environmental case involving common law and state statutory claims (Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Christian et al., case number 17-1498).The question before the court was whether Atlantic Richfield Company (“ARCO”) is liable for remediation by landowners at […]
April 22, 2020 SCOTUS Announces State Courts Have Jurisdiction Over State Law Claims Impacting Remediation at Superfund Sites, but EPA Approval Required for Concurrent Cleanup Programs On April 20, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court (Court) announced that state courts may hear state-law claims imposing independent cleanup obligations on Superfund site […]
April 22, 2020 Baley v. United States: Water Users in the Klamath Project Petition the U.S. Supreme Court for Certiorari On March 13, 2020, water users in the Klamath Reclamation Project (Project) petitioned the United States Supreme Court to review the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in Baley, et […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued on April 18, 2020, an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for manufacturers and distributors of face masks in response to the ongoing efforts for prevention of the spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). As discussed below, in issuing this EUA, the […]