Legal Alerts

February 21, 2022 Todd D. Kantorczyk, Esq. MGKF Newsflash On Friday, February 18, both the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) announced updates regarding their respective environmental justice (EJ) screening tools.  According to EPA, the updates to their screening tool—which has been named […]

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) announced on February 9, 2022, that the government introduced in the Senate the Strengthening Environmental Protection for a Healthier Canada Act (Bill S-5), intended to modernize the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA) and make related amendments to the Food and Drugs Act (FDA). […]

Posted by Eric L. Hiser In this installment and the following one, we will examine the United States v. Ameren Missouri litigation over whether Ameren’s installation of replacement preheaters at its Rush Island power station Units 1 and 2 constituted a “major modification” requiring PSD review. It is unusual for […]

February 17, 2022 Spencer A. Hill, Jr. MGKF Litigation Blog On Tuesday, February 8, 2022, the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the Southern District of Alabama’s dismissal of admiralty claims against the United States for oil-removal damages holding first that Oil Pollution Act of 1990’s (“OPA”), 33 U.S.C.S. § 2701 et. seq., does […]

Register Now For “UK REACH, What’s Happened And What’s Next?,” On March 23, 2022: Companies worldwide must be aware of the significant implications for chemical regulatory compliance under the United Kingdom (UK) REACH regulation as the UK has completed its first year of complete separation from the European Union (EU). […]