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Environmental Section

Our environmental section covers breaking news in environmental law, litigation and enforcement. The service tracks litigation involving the largest 2,000 companies in the world, as well as legislative and administrative developments at the state, federal and international levels.

Who reads it?

  • Environmental lawyers
  • Toxic tort lawyers
  • Corporate compliance officers
  • Regulators

What do we cover?

  • Environmental litigation involving the world’s 2,000 largest companies
  • Class actions and toxic torts
  • Multidistrict litigation
  • Criminal investigations
  • Climate change and emissions trading
  • State and federal legislative initiatives
  • State and federal administrative developments
  • International developments and treaties
  • Land use
  • Corporate compliance
  • Implications for real estate
  • Implications for infrastructure projects
  • Implications for energy projects
  • Implications for corporate transactions
  • Environmental insurance coverage
  • Endangered Species Act
  • Superfund (CERCLA)
  • Clean Air Act
  • Clean Water Act
  • Toxic Substances Control Act
  • National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
  • Coastal Zone Management Act
  • Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)
  • Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
  • Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
  • Personnel moves at law firms and government agencies
  • Profiles of competition practices
  • Conferences, reports and studies

What are our sources?

  • All new environmental lawsuits filed in U.S. district courts
  • All docket activity in major U.S. district courts
  • All docket activity in related multidistrict litigation
  • Corporate press releases, including those announcing major settlements
  • Corporate filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission
  • Environmental laws introduced, marked up or passed in Congress
  • Administrative developments at the Environmental Protection Agency