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Philadelphia Environmental Lawyers: Pennsylvania on the Path to Compliance with EPA’s Proposed Carbon Dioxide Emissions Reduction Plan
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 the EPA’s Clean Power Plan
On August 3, 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled the Clean Power Plan, through which the EPA, for the first time, seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from existing power utilities, and which presents challenges to the states and the...
New Jersey Construction Litigation Lawyers Explain Recent Changes to Insurance Liability Coverage for Developers and Contractors
Expanded Insurance Coverage for Claims of Faulty Workmanship Until now, many New Jersey developers and contractors sued for construction defects in newly-constructed buildings have been unable to take advantage of insurance policies that they expected to provide...
New Jersey Environmental Lawyers Explain EPA Chlorpyrifos Pesticide Ruling
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
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
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...
New Jersey Environmental Lawyers Explain Brownfield Study Funding
What Are Brownfields, and What Role Does the Federal Government Play in Supporting Their Cleanup? Brownfields may be any properties which have been contaminated with hazardous substances, whose owners or prospective purchasers are interested in cleaning them up,...
New Jersey Environmental Attorneys: New Vapor Intrusion Guidelines
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently released two official guideline manuals on vapor intrusion emissions. In 2001, regulation of vapor intrusion was just beginning to become part of the Federal Corrective Action Program. The original draft of the...
Massachusetts Health Care Attorneys Explain US Supreme Court Confirmation of the Affordable Care Act
The Right to Subsidies - the State vs. Federal Exchange Divide In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June of 2015 that the core component of President Obama's health care law that allows the federal government to provide tax subsidies through federal...
New Jersey Stark Law Lawyers: Statute Could Have Chilling Effect
Section 1877 of the Social Security Act, also known as the “Stark Law” (42 U.S.C. § 1395nn), has been expanded and amended on several occasions by Congress since its original enactment in 1989. The provision prohibits physicians from issuing referrals for certain...
New Jersey Health Care Lawyers: Health Care System Wins Injunction against Former Employee
Physicians hoping to start over elsewhere should pay close attention to the terms of their non-compete agreements, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania recently made clear. In a two to one ruling issued April 24, 2015, the divided panel sided with Geisinger Health...
New Jersey and Pennsylvania Environmental Lawyers: Duke Energy Settlement for Environmental Pollution
In May 2015, one of the largest electrical utility companies in the country, Duke Energy, entered a guilty plea in response to federal criminal charges for polluting rivers in North Carolina. Duke operates in six different states throughout the Southeast, East Coast...
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