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Environmental - August, 2013

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• 9th Circ. Says EPA Letters Trigger Pollution Coverage
• BP Claims Unfair Class Definition Sours $7.8B Deepwater Deal
• Calif. County's Drug Disposal Mandate Found Constitutional
• Enviros Lose Bid To Shut Down $1B Power Line Project
• Fla. Sens. Back $2.8M For Water Flow Improvement Projects
• Fracking Cos. Ask Colo. High Court To Allow Lone Pine Orders
• June Trial Date Proposed For Exxon Ark. Oil Spill Suit
• Pa. Rep. Seeks To Repeal Contested Pro-Fracking Zoning Law
• Engine Import Consultant Reaches $3.6M Air Pollution Deal
• Ohio Worker Pleads Guilty To Massive Fracking Waste Dump
• Dow Agrees To EPA Deal Over Colo. Superfund Site
• DOE Sinks $16M Into Hydrokinetic Projects
• Rainmaker Q&A: Carr Maloney's Jan Simonsen
• Are We On The Road To Superduperfund?
• Energy Dept. Proposes New Regs To Cut Bills By $28B
• Devil In Details As NY Mulls Record $5B Enviro Bond Debt
• Dallas City Council Rejects Fracking Permits On City Land
• NJ Court Rejects Town's Environmental Rezoning
• 5th Circ. Pulls Texas Justices Into Deepwater Insurance Row
• Comply With Your Air Permit And Be Sued Anyway
• 8th Circ. Tosses Land O' Lakes Cleanup Coverage Appeal
• Gas Drillers Likely To Exceed EPA Regs To Skip Pa. Permit
• China Halts New Energy Projects Over Pollution Violations
• ABB Hits U.S. Over $64M In CERCLA Response Costs
• EPA's Selenium Decision Will Transform Coal War
• EPA Escapes Cape Cod Nitrogen Pollution Suit
• Fla. DEP Enforcement Severely Stunted, Enviros Say
• LA Concealed Fault Line Info For $664M Project, Suit Says
• DOT Rule Would Hand Enviro Review Power To States
• Texas Appeals Court Upholds Houston Air Ordinance
• NY High Court Jumps Into Fight Over Local Fracking Bans
• Enbridge Gets OK To Replace 1st Segment Of Ind. Pipeline
• Texas Water Permit Fight May Foster More Takings Claims
• Enviros Say EPA Improperly Pulled Manure Monitoring Rule
• EPA Defends Rejection Of Texas Emissions Exception
• Sherwin-Williams To Pay $1.35M In Superfund Settlement
• Army Corps Awards Solar Contracts In $7B Renewables Push
• Groups To Appeal NJ Decision For LG Headquarters Building
• Fla. Tabs $90M For Everglades Bridge To Improve Water Flow
• Texas Doctors Want Pollution Rules Stiffened At Energy Plants
• BSEE, DOT To Track Offshore Drilling Disaster Near Misses
• 9th Circ. Keeps Calif. Shark Fin Ban In Place
• Texas Justices Asked To Revive $17M Drilling Ban Award
• Conservation Easement Bars Pa. Shale Fracking, Judge Says
• ConocoPhillips Tops High Bidders In Western Gulf Lease Sale
• Chinese Subsidies Boosted Solar Cos., EU Finds
• BP Move To Stop Spill Settlement Fund Payments Denied
• EPA Agrees To Take Action On Ariz. Soot Plan In CAA Suit
• Enviros Sue To Block GMO Crops On Federal Wildlife Refuges
• EPA Removes Chemical From Volatile Organic Compound List
• DOE Names New Oil-Gas, Clean Coal Research Chiefs
• Critical Habitat Rule Will Handcuff Property Owners
• Ex-BP Engineer Says Obstruction Charges In Spill Lack Proof
• Pa. Regulators Won't Stay Seneca Gas Well Permit Appeal
• The Spotlight Is Now On Soil Vapor Intrusion
• Sierra Club Seeks To Force EPA's Hand On SO2 Standards
• Calif. Appeals Court Says Challenge To Water Project Moot
• Calif. Appeals Court Affirms SF Win In Waterfront Project Row
• Alaska City Beats FCA Suit Over $1M In EPA Grants
• Entergy To Shutter Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant
• Pa. DEP Gets Initial OK On Oil, Gas Surface Operation Rules
• JA Solar Targets Eastern China In 300-MW Development Push
• Vitter Demands Probe Into EPA Theft Allegations
• French Court Lifts Nationwide Ban On Daimler Vehicles
• Deals Rumor Mill: KKR, Abramovich, Suntech
• PPL, Enviros Spar Over $247M Pa. Power Line Project
• Troutman Sanders Snags Enviro Pro From Hunton & Williams
• Chemical Supplier Can't Choose Counsel, Calif. Court Says
• Army Corps Contractor's Pricing Didn't Violate FCA: Judge
• Oil Spill Class Wants BP To Keep Paying Claims
• US Urges Fed. Circ. To Affirm Calif. Water Ruling
• Vinmar VP Fired For Challenging False EPA Report, Suit Says
• EPA Mandates Digital Switch For Toxic Release Forms
• BP, Anadarko Fight Deepwater CWA Claims In 5th Circ.
• Climate Plan Isn't A War On Fossil Fuels, DOE Chief Says
• Fracking Earthquake Claims Bank On Uncertain Science
• GE Unit-Led Partnership Buys 50-MW Canadian Solar Plants
• Enviro Group Challenge To Ky. Mining Permits Nixed By Judge
• LaGuardia Landfill Is A Bird Hazard To Air Traffic, Suit Says
• Siemens Installs Wind Power Link After Year Of Delays
• McDermott Lands EPA Air Emissions Enforcement Vet
• Exxon To Pay $2.4M Over Leaks At La. Facilities
• Keep Watch Of Endangered Salamander Rules In Texas
• Rainmaker Q&A: Bilzin Sumberg's Scott Baena
• Lost Opportunities: Why Cases Settle At The Wrong Time
• EPA Must Revisit Sewage Incinerator Rule, DC Circ. Says
• Former EPA Official Accused Of $900K Government Theft
• NJ Regulator Accused Of Conspiracy To Seize Landfill
• NJ Appeals Court Hands Oil Co. Mixed Ruling In Enviro Suit
• Texas High Court Blocks Waco From Challenging Water Permit
• DOI, DOE To Team Up On Offshore Drilling Safety
• EPA Floats $17M Cleanup Plan For NJ Superfund Site
• Enviros Sue To Block Enbridge Tar Sands Pipeline Project
• Gunster Snags Fla. DEP Atty In Tallahassee Office
• 3rd Circ. Ruling Gives Courts Broad Air Permit Powers
• FTC To Probe Oil Industry Over Renewable Fuels Competition
• Big West, EPA Strike $18M Deal In Utah Refinery Action
• Gov't Faces Pressure From All Sides To Alter Fracking Rule
• Keystone Conflict Report Won't Be Ready Until January
• Chevron Gets Access To More Email Data In Ecuador Row
• Brazil Energy Auction To Spur 66 New Wind Projects
• DC Circ. Urged To Revive Challenge To Coal Lease Sales
• NY Bill Would Allow State To Issue $5B In Enviro Project Debt
• Enviro Groups Booted From Alpha Selenium Suit
• Financing Chinese Petrochemical Projects — Sponsor's Take
• DC Circ. Takes Rare Step To Grant Mandamus
• EPA Faces Challenge To Wood Heater Emissions Rule
• Patton Boggs Managing Partner Jumps to Morgan Lewis
• Ecuador's $4B Failure Cripples Climate Strategy's Prospects
• Jordan Approves Plans For 1st Nuclear Reactor
• Seneca, NFG Midstream Attack Pa. Gas Facility Designation
• Regs, Gas Prices To Shutter 60 GW Of Coal Power: Study
• Army Corps Eases Flows From Fla.'s Lake Okeechobee
• Sierra Club Slams Proposed LNG Port Off NJ, NY Coasts
• Okla. AG Wants En Banc Review Of EPA Haze Rule
• DOJ Drops Key Prosecutors From Deepwater Obstruction Case
• NY City Planning OKs 3 Major Queens Developments
• AK Steel Pays $4M Over CAA Violations At Coke Plant
• Babcock Signals Big Change In Pa. Duty-To-Defend Law
• SunEdison To Spin Off Semiconductor Biz In IPO
• GE Reaches Deal With NJ Over Landfill Discharges
• US Fracking Rules A Must, Former DOI Secretary Salazar Says
• NJ City Utility Escapes Ex-Worker's Toxic Tort Appeal Bid
• PG&E Ordered To Explain Calif. Pipeline Safety Filing
• Landowner Can't Bar Keystone From Repairing Pipeline
• $1B Utility Line Needs More Gov't Review, Lawmakers Say
• Texas Coal Plant Permit Fight Dropped Amid Finance Woes
• Contractor To Blame For Fatal Black Elk Rig Blast: Report
• W.Va. DEP Says Current Fracking Air Pollution Rules OK
• BSEE Rule Toughens Offshore Oil Production System Regs
• Pa. DEP Slaps MarkWest Gas Plant With Smoke Violation
• 3rd Circ. Frees Pa. Coal Plant Operators From CAA Suit
• Lawmakers Prod White House For Social Cost Of Carbon Info
• Ill. Regs OK Landmark $1B Ameren Transmission Line
• Biofuel Producer Slammed With Investor Suit
• Ex-BP Engineer Can't Hide Deepwater Meeting From Trial
• 6th Circ. Revives CAA Suit Over Airport's $103M Funding
• DOJ, FTC Urged To Launch Antitrust Probe Of Oil Industry
• Chocolate Maker Faces $3M Clean Air Act Permit Suit
• Brookfield Closes On $1B For Global Timber Fund
• Lawmaker Says Bag Fee Would Remind NYC To Conserve
• Fort Lauderdale OKs $250M Project On Historic Tree Site
• Rainmaker Q&A: Dickinson Wright's Harlan Robins
• Dumpster Diving For Deleted Files: When Is It Worth It?
• NJ Gov. Vetoes Environmental Oversight Bill For Private Wells
• Synagro's Ch 11. Plan, $480M Buyout Gets Judge's Nod
• Fracking Gag Orders For Kids Go Too Far
• DOI Tells Fed. Circ. New Drilling Regs Didn't Breach Lease
• Calif. Gov. Says Judge's Ruling Won't Derail $68B Bullet Train
• Enviros Want Construction Halted On $1B Power Line
• Key Energy Legislation To Watch This Fall
• Feds Owe Fla. $1.6B For Enviro Projects, Gov. Scott Says
• Indian Point Unit Can Operate During NRC License Review
• Wash. Wind Farm To Buy Siemens Turbines
• 3rd Circ. Says CAA Doesn't Preempt State Pollution Claims
• CERCLA Contribution Possible Under State Claims: 3rd Circ.
• Enviros Cheer NJ Gov.'s Veto Of Pier Development Bill
• US Urges Fed. Circ. To Uphold CIT Decision On Wind Towers
• US Beats Another Enviro Suit Over $2.2B Mojave Solar Plant
• EPA Delays Formaldehyde Wood Emissions Rule
• Calif. Clears The Air For Significance Thresholds
• Australian Appeals Court Shoots Down $40B LNG Project
• NJ Senate Passes Delayed Tax Incentive Bill
• Coal Exports Emerge As Battleground In Climate Change Fight
• Chevron, Others Sued Over Oilfield Waste Disposal
• NJ Gov. Christie Conditionally Vetoes Forestry Bill
• NC Hits Duke Units With Water Contamination Suits
• DuPont Dam Oversight Caused Irene Flooding, Suit Says
• Texas' Water Rights May Be Endangered
• A Win For Prop 65 Defendants, Lessons For All
• Ore. Ups The Ante For Insurers Facing Enviro Claims
• Oil Co. Gets $24M From Insurer In Katrina Coverage Row
• EPA Shoots Down Enbridge Oil Spill Cleanup Extension Bid
• Luminant Hit With EPA Clean Air Suit Over Coal Plants
• New Zealand Walks Back Ambitious Carbon Reduction Target
• More Info Needed To Limit Keystone's Enviro Impact, DOI Says
• Jorgensen Demands Coverage For Wash. Superfund Cleanup
• Girardi Keese Beats Class Cert. In Lockheed Malpractice Suit
• BLM To Auction Rocky Mountains Land For Solar Projects
• Duke Energy Acquires 4.5-MW Solar Project In San Francisco
• EPA Launches Effort To Revamp Fuel Economy Labeling
• Pa. High Court Asked To Nix Rehearing Of Fracking Law Case
• Climate Action Plan: A Boon For Landowners
• Bankrupt Synagro Lowballed $4M Claim, Conn. City Says
• Exide, EPA Settle Differences Over Planned Asset Sales
• 9th Circ. Says Shell Project Doesn't Need Air Quality Review
• EPA Issues New Labels For Pesticides Linked To Bee Deaths
• DOE Wants Input On Social Cost Of Carbon Challenge
• NY Utility Sues Insurers For Coverage Of Pollution At 22 Sites
• Boeing Ducks Suits Claiming Plant Emissions Caused Cancer
• Ind. Utility Gets OK For $511M Enviro Upgrades To Plants
• EPA Can't Shake Suit Seeking Broad Access To Email Records
• BP Fights Investors' Class Cert. Bid In Deepwater Row
• EPA Backs New Industry Standard For CERCLA Assessments
• A Primer On Lab Analyses Of Environmental Samples
• DOD Closes Open-Air Burn Pits At Key Afghanistan Base
• Coal Power Giving Way To Gas In Pa. As Enviro Rules Tighten
• Calif. Shark Fin Ban Will Hurt Merchants, 9th Circ. Hears
• Ind. Justice Refuses To Step Down From Gas Contract Case
• The Cost, And Ethics, Of Doing (Legal) Business
• Climate Risks Drive Investors Away From Carbon
• 2nd Circ. Won't Let Vt. Shutter Entergy Nuclear Plant
• DOI Focuses On Public Lands In Renewable Energy Push
• Calif. Appeals Court Nixes Wal-Mart Expansion Challenge
• Ex-Navistar Exec Launches Suit Over Scrapped Enviro Engines
• Nev. Tribe Forms JV To Build 1.5GW In Renewable Projects
• BP Wants Halliburton's Plea Deal In Deepwater MDL Record
• St. Paul Settles Coverage Fight Over Toxic Waste Case
• Elon Musk's Hyperloop Would Hit CEQA Speed Bumps
• SF Air Rules Don't Need Enviro Report, Appeals Court Finds
• EPA Balks At Bankrupt Exide's Proposal To Shed Assets
• Fired BP Claims Atty Fights For Reinstatement
• NJ Enviro Groups Lobby To Intervene In $4B PSE&G Proposal
• EPA Failed To Protect Fla. Waterways, Group Claims
• Fla. Gov. Plans To Sue Ga. Over Water Consumption
• Gov't Flooding Threatens Endangered Sparrow, Suit Says
• Utility Seeks Go-Ahead To Build 150-MW Wind Farm In ND
• Ikea To Buy Irish Wind Farm In $2.3B Clean Energy Push
• AIG Unit Again Faces Bad Faith Claim In $69M Wildfire Row
• How Calif. Wrongly Decided Ceres V. Stanislaus County
• BOEM Gives Enviro Approval To 1st Hydrokinetic Project
• Electric Car Charging Co. Ecotality Eyes Bankruptcy
• BP Sues EPA Over Federal Contracting Ban
• Enviros Sue Feds Over Logging Plan's Wildlife Risks
• EPA Nixes Industry Challenge To Biofuel Diesel Standard
• Steptoe Lures 5 Energy, Enviro Attys From Jackson Kelly
• Fate Of Fla. Keys Developers Hinges On Takings Appeals
• NYC Hands Over $12M To Settle Bronx Landfill Cancer Suit
• Whistleblower Must Pay Disney's Fees In $1B Pollution Suit
• Pa. Rep. Seeks To Repeal New Gas Lease-Pooling Law
• Blackstone's Sithe Pulls Out Of $835M Guyana Hydro Project
• 9th Circ. Stormwater Flip Should Catch High Court's Eye
• Coal Plant Modification Violated CAA, Sierra Club Says
• GenCorp Settles Suit Over Tennis Factory Pollution
• Pa. Town Sues Neighboring Town Over Permits In Landfill Tiff
• Debunking The Myth Of Hydraulic Fracturing
• JPML Won't Carve Out New MDL From BP Litigation
• Renewable Fuel Revisions No Panacea For Biofuel Projects
• NJ Court Upholds Approval For LG Headquarters
• Consol Mining Unit Hit With Water Contamination Suit
• Pa. City, Chemical Co. Can't Dodge River Pollution Suit
• USDA Immune From Blame For Cattle Deaths, 8th Circ. Says
• Dallas' Glass Buildings Face A Glaring Controversy
• House Committee Chair Won't Pull EPA Health Data Subpoena
• Tribe Sues To Stop 'Mega-Loads' Shipments In National Forest
• FERC Holds Fast To Solar Flare Rule For Grid Operators
• Break Out The Crystal Ball To Evaluate Your Project
• Ohio Objects To Kodak's Proposed Enviro Deal With NY
• EPA Carbon Authority Cemented By DC Circ. Ruling
• 5 Tips For Crafting An Airtight Settlement
• Pa. Fracking Wastewater Settlement Cuts Discharge Levels
• Oil Refiners, Others To Sue EPA Over Sulfur Dioxide Delay
• 9th Circ. Says LA Water Monitoring Can Prove CWA Breaches
• Pa. DEP Axes Emission Plan Exemptions For Fracking Wells
• MarkWest Can't Toss Evidence Ruling Over Pa. Plant Permit
• Rainmaker Q&A: Seyfarth's Gerald Maatman
• NJ Enviro Orgs Can't Intervene In $3.9B PSE&G Proposal
• NJ Lawmaker Urges Stricter Standards For Chemical Storage
• Municipality Can Amend Land Use Sans Preapproval: NJ Court
• BP Ordered To Fork Over $129M In Deepwater Claims Fees
• Exxon Defeat On Gas Additive Leaves Energy Cos. Vulnerable
• 4th Circ. Says Fed. Court Needn't Hear Exxon MTBE Suit
• Boxer Asks Senate To Protect EPA Coal Ash Oversight
• FirstEnergy Can't Recoup $43M For Ohio Renewables Buy
• Kodak Extends New Enviro Cleanup Proposal To NY
• US Sugar Loses Appeal Over Rock Mining Permit
• EU Continues Probe Over Chinese Solar Panel Subsidies
• Pa. Wants All 7 Justices To Rule In Key Fracking Case
• GE Takes First Solar Stake Under New Tech Partnership
• Chesapeake In Talks To Drop Some Embattled NY Gas Leases
• Sears, Kmart, Pilot Face Toxic Warning Suit Over Auto Kits
• House Dem Slams GOP Subpoena Of EPA Health Data
• States Again Urge High Court To Overturn EPA GHG Finding
• Lone Pine Orders Are Still Useful In Fracking Litigation
• World Bank Injects $340M Into African Hydropower Project
• Calif. Light Rail Ruling Makes For Thornier Enviro Reviews
• Manure Concerns Spur Enviro Suit Over $3.4M Hog Farm Loans
• Law Firms Push For Environmental Sustainability
• Litgo Liable For Most Of NJ Site Cleanup, 3rd Circ. Finds
• NY County Failed To Treat Water For Parasite, Suit Says
• Shell's Spill Response Plans Withstand Enviros' Challenge
• EPA Releases New Renewable Fuel Standard Requirements
• DOE Should Eye Climate Impact Of LNG Exports, Report Says
• Pa. DEP Shuts Down Gas Wastewater Facility After Spills
• EPA Finalizes Relaxed Emissions Rules For Oil, Gas Storage
• Barrick Hit With Another Suit Over $8.5B Chilean Mine
• EPA Agrees To Update Oil Refinery Emissions Rule By 2015
• NJ Settles Water Pollution Suit Against Oil Refiner
• Calif. Lawmakers To Take On Minimum Wage, CEQA Bills
• 6th Circ. OKs Atty Sanctions In Chevron Contamination Suit
• BP Renews Bid To Halt Deepwater Spill Payments
• Thermo Fisher Sues Hampshire Partners Over Toxic NJ Land
• Blue Earth Announces $20M Solar Projects Deal
• TCEQ Floats Updates To State Water Quality Standards
• Ind. Appeals Court Cuts Technicolor's Pollution Coverage
• Transocean Slams BP, Anadarko Bid To Avoid Spill Blame
• Neb. High Court Says Wind Tax Credit Is Constitutional
• Calif. High Court Denies Attempt To Halt Expo Line Extension
• Banks Back $112M Loan For Swedish Wind Project
• Pa. Landowners Say Range's Fracking Tainted Groundwater
• High Court Asked To Revisit CERCLA Cleanup Liability
• Chevron To Pay $2M To Calif. Town For Refinery Fire
• Japan's Marubeni Takes $132M Stake In Irish Renewables Co.
• President's Climate Change Action Plan: What Happens Now?
• Cooley Lands Ex-Foley & Lardner IP Pro
• Senators Seek $415M To Restore Lake Tahoe
• Calif. Court Voids County Limit On Solid Waste Imports
• GE Energy To Pour $42M Into Indian Hydro-Power Project
• Fracking By EOG, Shell Caused Damaging Tremors, Suit Says
• FERC Grants License To $39M Alaskan Hydro Project
• RG Steel To Settle With EPA For $20M In Allowed Claims
• Bipartisan Sens. Look To Revamp Hydropower Regulations
• House Votes To Give Congress Power Over Costly Regulations
• Disney On Verge Of Getting $1B FCA Enviro Suit Nixed
• Pa. Mine Operators Must Report Accidents To DEP: Judge
• Delta Fuels, Knight Pay $2.3M To End Gas Spill CWA Suit
• DOI Seeks Delay In Calif. Casino Land Row
• Calif. Water Group Settles $400M Desalination Project Row
• House Passes Energy Consumers Relief Act
• Enviros Score Big Win In Purchasing Doc Row With Mining Co.
• Enbridge Settles US Suit Over Minn. Pipeline Discharges
• Calif. Beats Insurer Defenses Over $99M Stringfellow Bill
• 2 Pa. Suits Dropped Over NJ Conrail Derailment
• Obama Orders Chemical Storage Revamp After Texas Blast
• EPA Aims To Save $29M A Year With CWA E-Reporting
• UK To Invest $100 Million For Offshore Wind Development
• Enviros Sue To Block Port Authority Bayonne Bridge Raising
• Chevron Settles EPA Suit Over Utah Refinery Emissions
• Bracewell Lands Environmental Regulations Pro In Houston
• TransCanada OKs $12B Crude Pipeline To Eastern Canada
• NYC Pols Have High Hopes For East River As Funding Rolls In
• BrightSource Snags Pair Of Chinese Solar Contracts
• Noteworthy Changes To Wash. Model Toxics Control Act
• Rainmaker Q&A: McKenna Long's Thomas Lemmer