Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP received the most first-tier national rankings in the U.S. News – Best Lawyers 2023 “Best Law Firms” report for the 12th consecutive year and received the most national and metro rankings of any law firm included in the report.
According to U.S. News – Best Lawyers, firms included in the 2023 “Best
Building on the Department of the Interior’s August 2022 announcement addressing the ongoing “megadrought” crisis in the Western United States, and October 2022 announcement that provided new “drought resilience” and mitigation funding opportunities, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Bureau) on Oct. 28, 2022, published a notice of intent (Notice) to prepare a supplemental environmental
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP received the most first-tier national rankings in the U.S. News – Best Lawyers 2023 “Best Law Firms” report for the 12th consecutive year and received the most national and metro rankings of any law firm included in the report. More than half of the firm’s Environmental Practice U.S. offices were ranked as
Pennsylvania’s Land Recycling and Environmental Remediation Standards Act of 1995, or Act 2, established Pennsylvania’s program for the voluntary cleanup of contaminated sites. Act 2 requires the Environmental Quality Board (established to, among other things, formulate, adopt and promulgate rules and regulations) to establish uniform statewide health-based standards so that any voluntary cleanup conducted under
Please join Energy & Natural Resources Shareholder April Kim, who will moderate an Infocast webinar titled “Crypto + Power: Risks & Revenue Structures” on Nov. 9, 2022 at 10 a.m. PST.
The presentation will focus on the intersection of cryptocurrency mining and the energy industry. Panelists will discuss how energy asset investors, developers, owners,
The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed to list two “forever chemicals”—perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS)—as “hazardous substances” under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund). For some this is a hair-on-fire moment, so let’s pause and evaluate what difference that listing would actually make if it became final.
The 2022 Monaco Memo highlights two “core principles” regarding voluntary self-disclosure. First, absent aggravating factors, DOJ will not “seek a guilty plea when a company has voluntarily self-disclosed, cooperated, and remediated misconduct.” Second, DOJ will not “require the imposition of an independent compliance monitor” if the company has implemented and tested an effective compliance program by the time of
EU law requires certain large companies to disclose non-financial information on the way they operate and manage social and environmental challenges. The current disclosure regime was introduced in 2014 by Directive 2014/95/EU. Recently, the European Commission conducted a review of the NFRD rules, which showed strong support for mandatory sustainability reporting standards but also highlighted
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP helped client Clēnera to close on construction and tax equity financing for the 105 MW DC Apex Solar project located in Beaverhead County, Montana. The deal team was led by Jeffrey A. Chester, co-head of the firm’s Energy Project Finance & Development Practice, and John Eliason,
I recently wrote a column for The Legal Intelligencer’s Pennsylvania Law Weekly, reposted on this blog here, raising questions about whether the Pennsylvania courts have correctly identified the public natural resources that ought to be valued and conserved as the corpus of the public trust established by the Environmental Rights Amendment to the Pennsylvania