Category: News

Oct 17, 2023

Attorney Gregor McGregor Presents on the Public Lands Preservation Act (PLPA) at 2023 City & Town Counsel and Conservation Conferences – Update from McGregor Legere & Stevens, PC

Written by Gregor I. McGregor, Esq. Article 97 of the Amendments to the Massachusetts Constitution, approved by the voters in 1972, established a right to a clean environment including its natural, scenic, historical, and aesthetic qualities for the citizens of the Commonwealth. This codified and expanded what the Legislature may enact […]

Oct 17, 2023

FDA Seeks Comment on Cosmetics Direct and Forms – Update from Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

FDA Seeks Comment on Cosmetics Direct and Forms Regarding Registration of Cosmetic Product Facility and Cosmetic Product Listing On September 15, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it is seeking comment on its newly developed draft electronic submission portal (Cosmetics Direct) and paper forms (Forms FDA […]

Oct 17, 2023

Environmental Law & Policy Alert – Update from Somach Simmons & Dunn

October 04, 2023 You Have a Water Right, but You’re Far from the River… In conjunction with America’s early westward expansion and the development of the prior appropriation doctrine, Western states developed specific private rights of condemnation for water conveyance structures (also known as private ways of necessity). Even if […]

Sep 29, 2023

Massachusetts District Court Holds that Breathing in Polluted Air Without a Concrete Injury Traceable to the Defendant Does Not Confer Standing Under the Clean Air Act – Update from Manko Gold Katcher Fox

September 29, 2023 Brielle A. Brown MGKF Litigation Blog On September 14, 2023, in Conservation Law Foundation v. Academy Bus, a Massachusetts District Court held that the members of the Conservation Law Foundation (the “Foundation”) lacked standing to challenge the idling of buses under the Clean Air Act (“CAA”).  Conservation Law Found. […]

Sep 29, 2023

EPA and DOJ Claim eBay Unlawfully Sold Pesticides, Banned Chemical Products, and Devices That Defeat Pollution Controls on Motor Vehicles – Update from Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on September 27, 2023, that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), on behalf of EPA, filed a complaint against eBay Inc. (eBay) “for unlawfully selling, offering for sale, causing the sale of, and distributing hundreds of thousands of products” in violation of the […]