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Environmental - June, 2012

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• DuPont, Invista Settle $744M Suit Over Enviro Violations
• Wis. Utility To Pay $156M To Resolve EPA's CAA Suit
• Brookfield To Pay $600M For 351-MW Alcoa Hydro Project
• Calif. Miners Threaten To Sue Over Gold Mining Ban
• Spectra's $1.2B NJ-NY Gas Pipeline Gets Go-Ahead
• NRC Nominees Macfarlane, Svinicki Win Senate Approval
• Chadbourne To Add 2 Energy GCs As Project Finance Partners
• NY Adopts CO2 Cap, Enviro Justice Regs
• Belgian Offshore Wind Farm Closes $1B Financing
• Law360's Global 20 Firms Open Up New Frontiers
• Federal Law Doesn't Kill Calif. Paint Thinner Regs, Court Says
• Congress Passes $120B Highway Funding Bill
• 9th Circ. Won't Stamp Out $29M Wildfire Damage Verdict
• Environmental Group Spared Sanctions In Disney CWA Suit
• Union Carbide Can't Escape Asbestos Wrongful Death Suit
• Enviros Buck FERC's OK on $400M Gas Pipeline Expansion
• Lawmakers Say EPA Greenhouse Gas Regs Harmful To Coal
• API, Enviros Criticize EPA Diesel Fracking Guidance
• US Offshore Leasing Plan Opens Gulf Waters, Limits Arctic
• Lawmakers Release Details Of Highway Funding Agreement
• GOP Sends Bill Cutting EPA Budget By $1.4B To House Floor
• Green Groups Ask US Agencies To Delay Calif. Delta Plan
• Abound, Recipient Of $400M DOE Loan, To Enter Bankruptcy
• Calif. Solar Project Survives Tribe's Injunction Bid
• BASF Coughs Up $1M To Resolve Clean Air Act Dispute
• Scotts Miracle-Gro Faces RICO Suit Over Tainted Bird Food
• Energy Efficiency Experts Urge Senate To Ease Private Funding
• Election Year Expectations For Energy, Environment
• GOP, Experts Question EPA's New Soot Pollution Standards
• Texas AG Weighs Appeal Of DC Circ.'s GHG Ruling
• Ecuadoreans Seek Chevron's Brazilian Assets Over $18B Award
• BP, Others Say FERC Lead Line Policies Hurt Renewables
• Insurers Get New Weapon For Global Warming Coverage Rows
• House Dems Plug Tax Credits For Wind Energy, Payroll Hikes
• Vale, Pacific Hydro Team Up On $315M Wind Farm Project
• Proposed $2B NJ American Dream Project Clears Key Hurdle
• Brazil Gives Go-Ahead To Vale's $19B Serra Sul Mine Project
• NY Town Claims $13M Shortfall In GM Superfund Deal
• CBS Off Hook In Kansas Facility Cleanup
• Fishermen End Suit Against Cape Wind Project
• Bill To Halt Fracking Clears Calif. Senate Panel
• Atlantic Yards Developers Will Conduct New Enviro Study
• An EPA Victory In Greenhouse Gas Regulation
• EPA, Sierra Club Spar In DC Circ. Over Emissions Permits
• Solar Trust Gets Green Light For $20M Asset Sale
• Union Carbide Evades Bhopal Chemical Exposure Suit
• Enviros Can't Sink Shell's Preemptive Alaskan Drilling Suit
• Dissecting Da Silva: There Is A Science To It
• Former NRC Chief Jaczko Bullied Employees, Report Says
• Australia OKs $10B Clean Energy Fund, But Miners Unhappy
• Ore. Resources Defends Mining Permits In 9th Circ.
• Army Corps Approves Keystone's US Segment
• US Floats New Arctic Drilling Plans As Shell Fight Looms
• Comcast Case Gives Justices A Chance To Expand On Dukes
• 9th Circ. Says Corps Properly OK'd Wash. Hydropower Upgrade
• DC Circ. Rejects Vt.'s Entergy Plant Permit Challenge
• Judge Sacks BLM Plan To Open Colo. Plateau To Drilling
• DOI Questions Water Use For Planned 1,000-MW Hydro Plant
• Stricter LEED Could Hike Project Costs, Send Gov't Running
• Enviro Group Asks 5th Circ. To Reinstate Deepwater Claims
• DC Circ. Validates EPA's GHG Endangerment Finding
• NJ Assembly Clears Bill Extending Development Permits
• EPA Releases New Cement Kiln Emissions Standards
• Case Study: US V. Southern Union
• Environmentalists Want Stay Exception For RG Steel Appeal
• NJ Senate Votes To Keep Fracking Waste Out Of State
• GE Targets US In $15M CERCLA Suit Over Ex-Air Force Plant
• Chilean Regulators Ax Endesa's $1.4B Coal Plant
• Enviro Regs Can Be Based On Future Technology: Calif. Court
• Pa. Environmental Sec'y Calls NRDC Fracking Report Flawed
• 10th Circ. Blocks EPA's Haze Pollution Rules In Okla.
• Tronox Expert Says Co. Was Bankrupt At Time Of IPO
• Liberty Mutual Looks To Duck Covering Linn In Pollution Case
• Wash. Energy-Efficient Building Code Can Stand, 9th Circ. Says
• Chesapeake Pays $1.6M To Settle Water Contamination Suit
• 5th Circ. Asked To Revive $10M McGlinchey Malpractice Suit
• Top Dem Blasts NRC Response To Entergy Nuke Plant Leak
• High Court To Hear Comcast's Class Cert. Appeal Post-Dukes
• Los Angeles River Pollution Suit To Get Day In Supreme Court
• Foes Of $2B Blackstone Line Muzzled Before Key Hearings
• NextEra Bids $10M For Bankrupt Solar Trust Project
• Milbank Reps IDB In $200M Abengoa Renewables Financing
• Logging Runoff Permit Fight To Get High Court Hearing
• Supreme Court Won't Touch $926M Dow Contamination Suit
• Enviros Challenge Approval For $1.2B NJ-NY Spectra Pipeline
• Future Of Fracking In NC Hinges On Democratic Governor
• Yucca Mountain Funding Is Tapped Out, DOJ Tells DC Circ.
• DC Circ. Boots Patton Boggs Row With Gibson In Chevron Case
• 11th Circ. Says Shell Gulf Drilling Plan OK Despite Deepwater
• First Solar Gets Permission To Resume $1.4B LA Project
• With Lawmakers Gone, Cuomo Is Ready To Move On Fracking
• GCs Name Law Firms With Top Shelf Brands
• DLA Piper Energy Pair Joins Quarles & Brady In Chicago
• DC Circ. Upholds More Stringent EPA Lead Paint Rule
• Interior Fracking Rule Given 60-Day Comment Extension
• Union Pacific Says Asarco's $33M CERCLA Suit Is Time-Barred
• Oil Group Tells DC Circ. Biofuel Minimums Are Unreachable
• EPA Pulls Back On Chemical Notification Requirements
• Managing Expectations During Mediation: A Formula
• NY Legislature Wraps Without Wage Hike, Fracking Bills
• No Fast-Track For $68B Rail Project A Boon For Enviro Protests
• Canadian Oil Spills Cast Shadow Over Pipeline Boom
• 9th Circ. Sanctions Enviro Atty Over Ski Resort Suit
• Senate Panel Approves NRC Nominees Macfarlane, Svinicki
• Cape May Plant Will Close Coal Unit To Settle CAA Claims
• New Philly Rule Requires Buildings To Report Energy Efficiency
• New Solar Project Signals Upswing For Tribal Land Permits
• DuPont Sues Solar Cos. Over Photovoltaic Cell Patent
• High Court Makes Steep Criminal Fines Harder To Come By
• Russell Stover To Settle EPA Suit Over Acidic Wastewater
• NJ Assembly Approves Fracking Waste Ban
• Miss., Ala. Ask 5th Circ. To Preserve States' Rights In Spill Suits
• EPA Conflict Of Interest Biased Navistar Dealings, Group Says
• House Passes GOP Energy Package Despite Veto Threat
• Pfizer, Monsanto Avoid Sanctions In $600M Superfund Case
• The Worldwide Impact Of Chinese Solar Cell Dumping
• GOP Bill Seeks To End EPA Air Surveillance Over Farms
• High Court Overturns Southern Union's $18M Criminal Fine
• Senate Blocks GOP Bid To Kill EPA Power Plant Rule
• Continental Denies Liability For Studebaker Cleanup Costs
• Transocean Says BP's Deepwater Chief Must Submit To Physical
• Toll Bros. Agrees To Settle Water Pollution Suit
• NY Assembly Passes Fracking Health Study Bill
• Italian Court OKs Enel's €2B Oil-To-Coal Plant Conversion
• House Dems Press DOI To Toughen Fracking Disclosure Rules
• Mont. High Court OKs Gas Wells Despite Sage Grouse Threat
• House Panel Passes EPA Budget With $1.4B In GOP Cuts
• $1.7B Gulf Lease Sale Signals Post-Deepwater Resurgence
• Development Banks Commit $175B For Transportation Upgrades
• Calif. Cap-And-Trade Plan Gets Appeals Court's OK
• China Promises Yet More Rare Earth Controls
• House Approves Land Use Bill Expanding DHS Surveillance
• Fed. Facilities Can't Avoid Stormwater Cleanup Fees
• Sens. Battle Over Plan To Repeal Mercury Emissions Rule
• Plan For Taller LA Buildings Draws Legal Threats
• EPA Sued For $65M By NY Developer Charged Over Dumping
• Asarco Wants $220M Settlement Nixed, Claims EPA Erased Docs
• EPA Air Chief Defends Agency Gaffes On Emissions Rules
• Enviros Want NRC To Stall Reactor Licensing Decisions
• Sinosteel Gets Go-Ahead For Western Australia Ore Mine
• White House Threatens To Veto GOP Energy Package
• Enviros Challenge BLM On Powder River Drilling
• Wash. Enviros Sue Navy To Block $715M Nuclear Wharf
• DuPont Says It's Off The Hook For Invista Enviro Costs
• Ex-Congressman, Mine Owner Want Out Of Superfund Suit
• Green Groups Challenge PVC Emissions Rule In DC Circ.
• Perkins Coie Adds LEED Real Estate Atty From K&L Gates
• Kinder Says San Diego Stadium Lease Dooms Cleanup Suit
• Scientists Want More Seismic Data On Energy Development
• FCC: Taking Into Account Environmental Impact Of ASRs
• Century Seeks To Avoid Coverage For Narragansett Cleanup
• Calif. Seeks To Update Flammability Rules To Avoid Toxics
• Air Liquide Says Plant Closure Doesn't Void Supply Deal
• Green Groups Sue To Scuttle Gulf Drilling Lease Sale
• Clean Line, DOE Will Cooperate On $2.5B Transmission Line
• EPA Won't Regulate Aircraft, Ship Emissions Soon
• Gasco Gets Interior OK To Drill 1,300 Wells In Utah
• Delay Dooms Oil Spill Cleanup Coverage, Judge Rules
• GOP Measure To Kill EPA Emissions Rule Gets Veto Threat
• US, Mine Owner Agree To $32M Deal Over Toxic Waste
• Irish Fund Takes Reins Of 104-MW Viridian Wind Portfolio
• Baker Botts Picks Up Ex-Vinson Enviro Guru In Austin
• Minn. Court Lets AT&T Build Cell Tower In Wilderness Area
• Mass. AG Challenges NRC's Pilgrim Nuke License In 1st Circ.
• McGuireWoods Snags Energy Deals Pro From Bracewell
• More Shale Development Means More Industry Regulation
• Deepwater MDL Judge Caps Attys' Fees At 25%
• Shell's Arctic Drilling Plans Get Election-Year Boost
• BrightSource Bids $10M For 500-MW Solar Trust Plant
• 5th Circ. Upholds EPA's Rejection Of Texas Clean Air Plan
• ATP Sues US For $70M Over Deepwater Drilling Delays
• NRC Study Says Fracking Poses No Serious Earthquake Risk
• Calif. High Court Puts Its Weight Behind Exhaustion Rule
• EPA Toughens Up Air Quality Standards For Soot Pollution
• Ex-SEC Attorney Pleads Not Guilty To Green Scheme Charges
• Sharp, Mitsubishi, Osaka Make Joint Canadian Solar Farm Buy
• Judge Blocks Colo. Uranium Mill Project Permit
• Costner Untouchable In Baldwin's Cleanup Co. Suit, Jury Finds
• Energy Atty Jumps Back To Kelley Drye After API Gig
• Risky Business: 3 Circuits Affirm CWA Simple Negligence
• Calif. Trash-To-Energy Plants May Labor For Renewable Status
• LA Officials Press Calif. Gov. To Issue Fracking Ban
• Law Scholars Side With Tribe Fighting Nev. Mining Expansion
• Tronox Witness Says Kerr-McGee Misstated Liabilities
• New Ownership Claim Clouds Bankrupt Co.'s Planned Plant Sale
• NJ Ban On Accepting Fracking Waste Clears Assembly Panel
• LA Hit With 2nd Enviro Suit Over Major Residential Project
• Sen. Blasts EPA Chief's Claims On Coal's Decline
• EPA Greenlights $880M Everglades Restoration Plan
• Mohawk Hydro Urges Denial Of Rival Project Permit
• FHFA Takes Tough Stand Against Green Home Finance Program
• La. Communities Want Deepwater State Law Claims Revived
• Chesapeake Deal Lets NY Landowners Rework Fracking Leases
• Will The Big Apple Become The Big PV Cell?
• Cuomo Calls Leaked Fracking Plan Info Premature
• Judge Won't Reconsider RCRA Claim In Halliburton Suit
• BP Hit With $500B Suit Over Texas Refinery's Emissions
• Fracking's Latest Frontier: Regulation And Taxation
• Judge Trims 120 Witnesses From Hess, Lockheed CERCLA Row
• Lights, Camera, Courtroom: Lessons From Mike Wallace
• Challenge To Regional Carbon Trading Program Nixed In NY
• Panetta Presses Senate To Allow DOD Energy Investments
• PPG Says Wartime Mandates Require US To Share Enviro Costs
• Cuomo Backs Home Rule Power As Fracking Deal Shapes Up
• Palm Springs Cleared In Suit Over Wind Farm Notification
• BP Asks 5th Circ. To Kill Third-Party Deepwater Claims
• Republicans Balk At NRC Nominee's Background
• Enviro Groups Press Discovery Over 7-Year Gulf Oil Spill
• NJ To Unify Clean Energy Program Under 1 Admin
• NYC, FreshDirect Hit With Enviro Suit Over Bronx HQ Project
• Wash. Groups Rail Against DOT's Approval Of Transit Project
• SPI Turns Top Solar Developer With 68 New Projects
• 5th Circ. Says Chesapeake Can't Duck Property Damage Suit
• WHO Says Diesel Fumes Cause Lung Cancer
• OSHA: Targeting The Chemical Industry
• Senator Calls For Oil, Gas Drilling Off SC Coast
• 2nd Circ. Backs Limited FERC Review Of Marcellus Pipeline
• AGL Wins $130M Australian Grant For $450M Solar Project
• DC Circ. Tosses EPA Rule Letting Navistar Sell Subpar Engines
• Siemens Settles With EPA Over Oil Pollution
• NY Bill Looks To Shine Light On Secret Fracking Deals
• Massey Settlement Heads Off Trial In Water Pollution Suit
• DC Circ. Nixes Chevron's Doc Access In $18B Ecuador Case
• Nearly 100 Mayors Defend EPA's Power Plant Emissions Rule
• FERC Approves $400M Gas Pipeline Expansion In NJ, Pa.
• Oakland Coliseum Sued Over Pollution At U2 Show
• Global Airlines Say EU Emission Rules Could Spark Trade War
• Energy Groups Sue EPA In DC Circ. Over Biofuel Decision
• Pipeline Safety And The Integrity Of Water Crossings
• BP Spill Judge Won't Recuse Himself In Obstruction Case
• Enviro Groups Call Calif.'s Cap-And-Trade Program Biased
• Ohio Tackles Shale Regs Early In Gas Production Boom
• Brazilian Bank Puts Up $185M For Iberdrola Wind Farms
• States Ask 2nd Circ To Let Vt. Close Entergy Nuclear Plant
• Judge Approves Mich. Resort Development Deal
• SEC Should Probe Chevron Over $18B Ruling, House Rep. Says
• Invista Adviser Details EPA Report In $744M DuPont Trial
• BP Denied Access To Deepwater Horizon Documents
• Judge Keeps Alive CWA Suit Over 20 Calif. Oil Spills
• Impact Of New US Army Corps NWPs On Renewable Projects
• House GOP Presses EPA For More Info On Utility Rule Costs
• Obama Should Fight EU Airline Emission Plan, Sen. Says
• NJ Lawmakers Eye Administrative Law Reforms
• Spectra Wins NJ's OK For $1B Pipeline To Cross State Park
• Trade Group Loses Bid To Alter CAA Emission Regs
• ND High Court Backs Permit For Great Northern Coal Facility
• FERC Opens Cheniere LNG Project Environmental Review
• Pennzoil, NAPA, Big Lots Face Carcinogen Exposure Suit
• NJ Court Denies Pollution Suit Coverage For Heating Oil Co.
• Developer Says BP Oil Spill Ruined Housing Complex Sales
• DC Circ. Punts API Suit Over EPA Hazardous Waste Rule
• Exide Settles Lead Emissions Dispute With Texas City
• Iowa High Court Backs Wind Project Of Up To 1,001 MW
• DC Circ. Strikes NRC 60-Year Nuclear Waste Storage Rule
• Gulf South Says Insurer Must Pay For $4.5M Fluid Leak
• Anadarko Settles Arsenic Well Cleanup Suit
• NC Senate Approves Bill To Lift Fracking Ban
• Role Of Contracts, Ownership In AISLIC Trial And Beyond
• EPA Will Approve Texas Air Quality Plan
• NJ Assembly Panel Advances Bill To Boost Solar Market
• EPA Bending Data To Justify Fracking Regs, GOP Rep. Says
• CNA Escapes Asarco's $33M Superfund Cleanup Suit
• Centrica, Siemens Nab $660M For Offshore UK Wind Project
• Enviro Groups Ask 9th Circ. To Halt $2B Power Line Project
• Aegis Settles Gas Leak Coverage Suit With Plantation
• DOE Fights BP's Bid For Agency Emails In Deepwater MDL
• Enviros Sue EPA Over Lack Of Lead Bullet Regulations
• Petrobras, W&T, Others Face FCA Suit Over Waste Dumping
• Sewer Overflows Cost NJ Town $5.4M In EPA Upgrade Deal
• NJ Panel OKs Bill To Keep Fracking Waste Out Of State
• House Panel Signs Off On Bill Relaxing Pollution Controls
• Bipartisan Bill Would Extend Tax Break To Green Energy
• USFS Tree Clearing Halted In Endangered Lynx Habitat
• Refocusing CEQA Into A Lean, Green Review Machine
• Fla. County Seeks Permission To Defend $791M Airport Project
• $32B Energy, Water Spending Bill Clears House Vote
• Hartford Dodges Defense Duty In PCB Cleanup Dispute
• Calif. City Strikes Enviro Claim From Gas Lease Fight
• WR Grace To Pay $20M To Settle Mont. Asbestos Claims
• Asarco Wants Rivals To Pay Share Of $400M Mine Cleanup
• Green Groups Press NY GOP On Fracking Waste Bill
• Enviros Sue Christie Admin For Dropping Clean Energy Pact
• House Panel OKs Bill Blocking Court Bans On GE Crops
• NJ Solar Bill Slammed By Retail Energy Group
• EPA Fast-Tracks Emissions Rule To End Enviro Suit
• Consolidation Coal Settles $380M Polluted Mines Suit
• GOP, Texas Officials Say EPA Is Biased Against Fossil Fuels
• Water And Energy: Is It A Zero-Sum Game?
• Energy Co. Asks 9th Circ. To Back $1B Plant's Emissions Swap
• Murkowski Splits With GOP, Backs Clean Energy Loans
• EPA, Enviros Defend State Clean Air Policy In DC Circ.
• Ineos Pays EPA $1M To Settle CAA Breaches At Ohio Plant
• Shell Sues Enviros To Stave Off Alaska Drilling Threats
• Judge Pares Defenses Deflecting Wildfire Blame To USFS
• Enviros Rip Entergy's Fish Worries In Blackstone Project Feud
• Citigroup, MeadWestvaco Settle $12.6M Site Cleanup Suit
• Philippine Wind Farm Co. Calls For Feed-In Tariff Rates
• Poland To Sell 100-MW Hydro Plant to Czech Utility Co.
• La. Votes To Reserve Deepwater Fines For Restoration Work
• Blackstone, Con Ed Reach Deal Over $11B Transmission Project
• Vt. Tells 2nd Circ. It Can Shutter Entergy Nuclear Plant
• Calif.'s New, Efficient Low-Threat UST Closure Policy
• NY Landowners Move For Repeal Of Local Fracking Ban
• $7.8B Deepwater MDL Settlement Heads Into Claims Stage
• EPA 'Dropped Ball' On Acid Rain Standards, DC Circ. Hears
• Costco Pays $3.6M To Settle Calif. Improper Storage Claims
• Wind Industry Faces Collapse With Tax Credit In Limbo
• House Green Group Wants 3 Highway Bill Riders Struck
• Calif. Gov. Seeks To Ease Enviro Review For $68B Rail Project
• Hess Can't Drown Water Pollution Claims In Superfund Case
• Industry Report Challenges EPA Fracking Emissions Data
• 5th Circ. Asked To Revive Deepwater Firefighting Boat Suit
• Utility Can't Escape Suit Over Arsenic-Laced River
• Dole, Shell, Others Exposed Banana Workers To DBCP: Suit
• NCR Tells 7th Circ. It's Paid Enough At $1B Superfund Site
• Pfizer, Monsanto Lose Bid For Contributions To $600M Cleanup
• Desperately Seeking CEQA('s Expedited Litigation)
• Travelers Ordered To Pay For Sequa Unit's Polluted Sites
• Tronox Witnesses Look To Build Contamination Case
• EPA Sued Over Texas Power Plant Permit
• SEC Raids Imperial Petroleum HQ In Fuel Credit Probe
• EPA Sets New Petroleum Refinery Emissions, Monitoring Rules
• Chevron Wants High Court To Lift $18B Ecuadorean Judgment
• La., NC Move On Fracking Regs As State Patchwork Grows
• 9th Circ. Flips On Mining Decision, Finding ESA Applies
• DOE Given 6 Months To Justify $750M Nuclear Waste Fees
• Exxon To Pay $11.5M To End 2 Water Contamination Suits
• Plastics Co. Sues Insurers Over Superfund Liability Coverage
• FERC Told Alaska Hydro Plant Needs Better Impact Study
• Oh, The Places Fracking Will Go: Impact Of BLM Regs
• Pros And Cons Of Computer-Assisted Review