Category: News

Sep 26, 2023

New Jersey Court Declines to Follow DEP Statutory Interpretation and Narrows Exemptions From Highlands Act Permitting Requirements – Update from Manko Gold Katcher Fox

September 22, 2023 Danielle N. Bagwell MGKF Litigation Blog In an issue of first impression, in Matter of Proposed Construction of Compressor Station (CS327), No. A-3616-20, 2023 WL 5614411 (N. J. Super. Ct. Aug. 31, 2023), the New Jersey Superior Court rejected the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (“DEP”)’s interpretation […]

Sep 26, 2023

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

September 20, 2023 End of 2023 Legislative Session Highlights The 2023 California legislative session concluded on September 14, 2023. This article highlights new bills pertaining to water rights, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and emissions on the consumer and industry levels, as well as bills that are being held […]

Sep 12, 2023

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

September 07, 2023 Large Municipal Water Suppliers May Soon Have Prescribed Methodology for Calculating Water Use Efficiency Objectives Under Newly Proposed Regulations The “Making Conservation a California Way of Life” regulation (Proposed Conservation Regulation) seeks to establish the methods and criteria that large municipal water suppliers must use to calculate […]

Sep 7, 2023

Eleventh Circuit En Banc Elaborates upon Express Preemption Analysis in Recent FIFRA Decision – Update from Manko Gold Katcher Fox

August 31, 2023 Alice F. Douglas, Esquire MGKF Litigation Blog In a recent en banc decision out of the Eleventh Circuit, the Court found that the panel had used an improper standard in holding that a state law failure to warn cause of action was not preempted by the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, […]

Sep 7, 2023

EPA Issues Third TSCA Test Order for PFAS – Update from Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on August 15, 2023, that it issued the third Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) test order requiring testing on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) under EPA’s National PFAS Testing Strategy. EPA has ordered the Chemours Company FC LLC, E. I. du Pont de […]