New Jersey Environmental Compliance Lawyers | Wetlands Damage by Exxon

by cfrisco | Sep 28, 2015

ExxonMobil Corporation and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) received court approval of a $225 million consent judgment on August 25, 2015, in a closely-watched dispute over natural resource damages (NRD) caused by the oil giant. In signing...

Philadelphia Environmental Lawyers: Pennsylvania on the Path to Compliance with EPA's Proposed Carbon Dioxide Emissions Reduction Plan

by cfrisco | Aug 25, 2015

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) proposed requirements for regulating CO2 emissions, known as the “Clean Power Plan,” will present challenges businesses in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.  If Pennsylvania does not meet the standards of EPA’s new plan,...

New Jersey Environmental Lawyers Explain EPA Chlorpyrifos Pesticide Ruling

by cfrisco | Aug 10, 2015

The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers seven states in the Western U.S., Alaska and Hawaii, recently ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had until June 30, 2015 to decide whether to cancel the registration for the...

Philadelphia Environment Lawyers: Pennsylvania Fracking Spill Fine and the Clean Streams Law

by cfrisco | Aug 4, 2015

Earlier this year, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court held that EQT Production Co., a drilling company, could not sue the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) in Commonwealth Court to void a proposed $1.2 million fine against the company for a...

Philadelphia Environmental Lawyers: Fracking Correlation to Earthquakes

by cfrisco | Jul 28, 2015

Questions have been raised about whether the technique of using hydraulic fracturing (commonly called “fracking”) to release oil gas from underground rocks is a cause of earthquakes. A recent study suggests that there is a direct correlation between fracking and...