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Environmental - December, 2015

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• Environmental Cases To Watch In 2016
• How To Woo In-House Counsel In 2016
• Environmental Legislation And Regulation To Watch In 2016
• Enviros Tell DC Circ. To Follow Own Lead In EPA Rule Fight
• 3 Things To Expect From Legal Tech In The New Year
• Ariz. Utility Can't Withhold Usage Data In Antitrust Suit
• Sierra Club, Texas County Settle Suit Over Waste Disposal
• NJ Blasts Feds For Halting Beach Rebuild Project
• California Shark Fin Ban Case Heads To Supreme Court
• ARCO Says Landowners' Cleanup Plan Undermines EPA
• Enviros Seek $380K Attys' Fees In Consol Unit Pollution Row
• Business, Oil, Enviro Groups Challenge EPA's Ozone Rule
• Flawed CPP Must Be Delayed, Challengers Tell DC Circ.
• Enviro Group Slams Army Corps Over Texas Barge Facility
• Texas Atty Requests Self-Representation In BP Fraud Trial
• Citgo's 2006 Oil Spill Penalty Boosted To $81M
• Changes To Rule 37 Will Affect Environmental Disputes Too
• Capitalizing On Mexico's New Wholesale Electricity Market
• FERC Ignored Effect Of $112M Dominion Pipeline, Enviros Say
• EPA Says More Info Needed In $5.4M Walter Energy Sale
• Army Corps Tells 11th Circ. It Properly Reviewed Coal Permit
• Texas Oil Co. Pleads Guilty To Not Reporting Gulf Leak
• Conrail Derailment Plaintiffs Take Losses To 3rd Circ.
• HK Exchange Seeks More Environmental Info From Listed Firms
• NJ Court Again Strikes Down Waterfront Public Access Rules
• SEC Says Atty Should Pay $2.5M For Fracking Venture Fraud
• Feds Sue Wine Co. Over Gas Leak That Killed Worker
• Pa. Justices Say Court, Not Jury, Must Interpret Farm Law
• Volkswagen Diesel MDL Judge Pushes For Quick Resolution
• Ariz. Utility Can't Get Quick Appeal In Antitrust Row
• The Future Of California's Renewable Energy Market
• Enviros Jumped The Gun On ESA Suit, DC Circ. Rules
• AVIC's Ex-Biz Partner Wants $70M Arbitration Award OK'd
• Industrial Cos. Must Share Defense-Cost Docs With Insurer
• Delta Says Hunters Miss Target With Trophy Cargo Row
• DC Circ. Urged To Keep Oil Train Safety Dispute On Track
• EPA Fights Bid To Speed Up Clean Power Plan Challenge
• Judge's YouTube Vids Can't Enter Wildfire Row, Gov't Says
• The Paris Agreement And Business Interruption Coverage
• Dow Takes Radioactive Waste Class' $926M Win To High Court
• Tribe Urges 9th Circ. To Hear Salmon-Kill Prevention Row
• BLM Urges Quick Decision In Fracking Rule Authority Battle
• Ex-Newark Water Agency Head Cops To $1M Kickback Scheme
• GE Nabs Onshore Wind Deal, Its Largest Yet In France
• Aussie Solar Panel Co. Can Serve Claim In US, Court Says
• Obama Foils Clean Power Plan Attacks, Signs Budget
• Southern Co. Nabs Controlling Stake In Calif. Solar Project
• Exide Investors Get Another Class Cert. In Enviro Suit
• Norton Rose Lands Ex-Blaney McMurtry Enviro Chair
• US Owes Tribe For River Pollution Cleanup, Magistrate Says
• Streamlining The Environmental Review Processes
• The Firms That Dominated In 2015
• Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year
• Why All US Attorneys Should Read Justice Breyer's New Book
• Industry Picks Apart EPA Coal Ash Rule At DC Circ.
• Crow Members Urge High Court To Hear Water Rights Row
• 'Monkey Selfie' Publisher Says Animal Can't File Lawsuit
• GOP Digs Into Legality Of EPA's Clean Power Plan Push
• Greens Push EPA To Force More GE Hudson River Cleanup
• Texas Justices To Eye Utility Contractor's Immunity Challenge
• FERC Gives Environmental OK To $3B Fla. Gas Pipeline
• Chemical Maker Fights Pa.'s $1.7M Pollution Fine
• DC Circ. Won't Look At EPA's Backing Of Calif. Emission Rule
• Plastic Microbead Ban Heads To Obama For Signature
• Charges In Superfund Fraud Case Not Time-Barred, Feds Say
• USTR Begins Environmental Analysis Of Green Goods Accord
• Senate Passes $1.8T Spending And Tax Extender Package
• NJ Assembly OKs Bill Declaring Christie's Enviro Rules Invalid
• EPA Says 9th Circ. Has Power To Nix Dow Herbicide Approval
• FWS Should Have Protected Coastal Marten, Enviros Say
• NJ Bill Reviving Offshore Wind Farm Passes Both Houses
• CORRECTED: Greens Denied Quick Appeal In Battle Over BLM Fracking Rule
• Calif. High Court Undoes Ruling Critics Said Expanded CEQA
• Senate Passes Toxic Substances Control Act Reform
• Insurer-Appointed Atty Beats DQ Bid In Superfund Suit
• Fellow States Back California, Oregon In Hydroelectric Row
• House Moves Closer To Passing Broad $1.15T Funding Bill
• Marshall Islands Tells 9th Circ. Courts Have Nuke Oversight
• FERC Greenlights Louisiana LNG Export Project
• VW Taps Kenneth Feinberg To Handle Emissions Claims
• House Passes Sweeping $622B Tax Extenders Bill
• FERC Ignored GHGs In Approving LNG Project, DC Circ. Told
• Mining Co. Takes Polluted Union Pacific Site To DC Circ.
• Ex-Massey CEO May Have To Pay Tens Of Millions, Gov't Says
• Chemical Cos. Back Industry In Solid Waste Fight At DC Circ.
• EPA's 2015 Enforcement Actions Netted $404M In Penalties
• Okla. Landowner Says He Needs To Join Drillers' BIA Lawsuit
• Maine Tribe Can't Regulate River Waters, Judge Says
• Budget Deal Stuffs Stockings For Green Energy Cos.
• Texas Farmers Ask High Court To Leave Water Ruling Intact
• SunPower To Provide Solar Energy To 9 Mexican Airports
• NJ Utility Board Signs Off On $90M Pipeline Project
• Spending Bill A Mixed Bag For Environmentalists
• Texas Atty Can't Enlist Ex-CFO In Securities Fraud Case
• DOT Wants Row Over Pipeline Spill Rules In DC Circ.
• 3 Things Younger Attys Can't Stand About Legal Vets
• UK Supreme Court Dumps Trump's Scotland Wind Farm Suit
• NASA Subcontractor Fights Arbitration Over Paint Job
• Enviromental Services Co. Faces Charges For CWA Violations
• House Buys More Time To Digest $1.15T Spending Bill
• Budget Deal Ends Oil Export Ban, Extends Green Tax Credits
• Miami-Dade Commission Approves Crucial Boat Show Permit
• Comcast To Pay $26M To End Calif. AG Privacy, Waste Probe
• Hanergy Unit Accuses Co. Of Going Back On Solar Deal
• EPA, Enviros Settle Fracking Chemical Disclosure Suit
• Cory Booker Claims Immunity From NJ Water Agency Suit
• Apollo Leads $650M Investment In Solar Co. Sungevity
• Texas Atty Can't Rep Self In BP Fraud Trial, Judge Rules
• Duke Energy Plans 75MW NC Solar Project
• AEP Strikes Coal Plant Subsidy, Phaseout Deal With Ohio
• Arnstein & Lehr Adds Enviro, Immigration Pro In Chicago
• Videos Link Sierra Pacific Judge To Tweet, 9th Circ. Told
• Air Force Shirked Noise Issue In Vt. F-35 Base, Court Hears
• EPA Says Haze Plan Fight In Wrong Court, At Wrong Time
• Coast Guard Can Hold Polluting Ships In Port, DC Circ Says
• 7 Deadly Business Mistakes That Can Tank Your Law Practice
• Mercury Power Plant Rule Left Intact By DC Circ.
• US' Paris Pledge Threatened By Changing Political Winds
• Wind Co. Says Osage Can't Appeal Wind Farm Ruling
• Attorneys React To The Paris Climate Change Deal
• EPA Used 'Covert Propaganda' In Water Rule Campaign: GAO
• For Clean Energy Cos., Global Deal Needs Local Teeth
• $838M NC Bypass Approval Is Sound, 4th Circ. Told
• Breakthrough On Green Goods Pact Unlikely At WTO Summit
• Enviros Lose Challenge To $3B Fla. Natural Gas Pipeline
• EQT Challenges Pa. DEP On Pipeline Cleaning Procedures
• Countries Ink Historic Climate Change Pact In Paris
• Stalled Navajo Mine Expansion Can't Be Appealed: Enviros
• CIT Says Commerce Had Right Not To Review Subsidy Claims
• 2nd Circ. Urged To Ignore Canada Case In $9.5B Chevron Row
• Greek Shipping Co. Officers Charged In Oil Dump Cover-Up
• Enviros Want PPG's 3rd-Party Claims Out Of River Waste Suit
• Corn Producers Look To Stop Bellwether Strike Motion In MDL
• BP Hit With Class Action In Mexico Over Deepwater Horizon
• Insurer Fights To Keep $2.8M Navy Oil Spill Row Afloat
• Tribes Look To Block Consolidation Of Calif. Highway Suits
• Water Districts Say Fish Habitat Suit Needs High Court Ruling
• Enviro Group Asks FERC To Block Unauthorized Pipeline Work
• Texas Atty Can't Rep Himself In BP Fraud Trial, Gov't Says
• ND, Wyo. Say Judge Shouldn't Rush Their Fracking Rule Suit
• Senate Votes To Fuel Energy Development On Tribal Lands
• Enviros Sue Calif. County Over New Oil & Gas Well Rules
• 6D Global Shareholders Accuse Directors Of Stock Scheming
• High Court To Hear Army Corps' CWA Appeal
• Chinese Solar Cell Maker Says Calif. Co. Owes $1M Award
• Vivint Solar 'Flawed' Shareholder IPO Suit Tossed
• Skelos, Son Found Guilty In Corruption Trial
• PRP Letter Response Costs Are 'Required' By NY Enviro Law
• Benefits Of Developing Environmentally Difficult Projects
• Will Changes To Federal Rules Reduce Scope Of Discovery?
• 5 Reasons Law Firms Top In-House Counsel For Local Gov't
• EPA's E-Disclosure: What's New, And What Won't Change
• 8th Circ. Partially Reverses Superfund Ruling Against Tire Co.
• 6th Circ. May Speed Up Water Rule Fight's Rise To High Court
• No Conservation Deduction For Golf Course, Tax Court Says
• 5th Circ. Tells Lower Court To Resolve Deepwater Claims Rule
• Court Upholds Air Permit for $1.3B Tenn. Steel Project
• Mine Permit Suit Paused While Feds Rethink Impact On River
• FWS Revises Drilling Regs For National Refuge Lands
• NJ Enviro Testing Co. Digs Up $2M To End False Claims Suit
• VW Says It Cheated 'Impossible' US Emissions Standards
• Ex-Massey Energy CEO Gets To Go Home For The Holidays
• 9th Circ. Asked To Protect Tortoise From Solar Project
• Jury In Skelos Corruption Trial Requests Mound Of Evidence
• Feds Appeal Injunction Blocking DOI's Fracking Rule
• Ore. Utility Rests On Environmental Progress In Water Row
• Pa. Enviros Warn Fiscal Code Bill Threatens Fracking Regs
• 9th Circ. Orders EPA Pesticide Plan By December 2016
• Industry, Enviros Blast EPA's Solid Waste Rule
• Ex-Freedom Execs Agree To Settle Chemical Spill Claims
• San Francisco Supervisors OK Plans For $1B Warriors Arena
• EU Sues Germany To Force Daimler Air-Conditioner Overhaul
• A Broken Dam, A Securites Suit And A Heap Of Trends
• The Art Of The Mock
• Pa. Landowner Can't Revive Claim That Fracking Spoiled Well
• Bipartisan Pipeline Safety Bill Passes Senate Committee
• Nev. Counties, Mining Cos. Can't Pause Sage-Grouse Plans
• Duke Energy Cannot Limit Wind Farm Output, 7th Circ. Hears
• Tribe's, Enviros' Challenge To Enbridge Pipelines Gutted
• Prosecution 'Hasn't Come Close,' Skelos Defense Tells Jury
• Chesapeake Accused Of Fracking Royalties 'Bait-And-Switch'
• Scotts Wants Toxic Bird Food Suit To Await Higher Rulings
• Mining Co., Tribe Agree On Response Costs, But Not Liability
• Disaster Relief Funding: Lessons From Mississippi
• Sanders Issues Plan For Permanent Green Tax Credits
• 4th Circ. Says EPA Head Deposition Not Needed In Coal Row
• Convicted Ex-Massey CEO Seeks To Go Home For Christmas
• VW Says Small Number Of Vehicles Need Carbon Fixes
• Auto Emissions Part Didn't Need State OK, Calif. Court Says
• NJ River Pollution Demands Investigation, Judge Told
• Strategies For Your Evolving Law Department
• 2015's Biggest Environmental Policy Moves
• 10th Circ. Asked To OK $1.6M Award Over Solar Panel Parts
• Volkswagen Emissions Fraud MDL Consolidated In California
• Vt. Warns Against Deceptive Advertising Of Solar Energy
• Caltrans Says Tribes' Bypass Suit Is Related To Enviro Case
• Center for Food Safety Weighs In On Maui Anti-GMO Law
• PPL Loses 6th Circ. Bid To Rehear CAA Coal Dust Claims
• Skelos Used Power To Build 'Cash Cow' For Son, Jury Told
• Nuke Plant Doubts Complicate NY Clean Energy Push
• NH Gov. Raises Doubts Over $5B Kinder Morgan Pipeline
• Tribe Can Float New Docs In Columbia River Superfund Suit
• Pork Producers, Enviros Challenge EPA Farm Pollution Rule
• Power Cos., States Blast Carbon Plan Opponents' Stay Bid
• Coal Miner Settles Claims It Flouted Pollution Protections
• Mexican Solar Panel Maker Can't Escape Dumping Probe
• LA Sues SoCalGas Over Affluent Neighborhood's Gas Leak
• NJ Asks FERC To Protect Wildlife Near Gas Pipeline Project
• Dow Slams EPA Bid To Nix Herbicide Approval In 9th Circ.
• FWS Can't Force Wind Farm Permit, Judge Says
• GCs Love These Firms More And More
• Judge Tosses BP Investors' Alaska Spill Suit
• EPA, Enviros Weigh In On Alaskan LNG Project
• Enviros Say Feds Can't Defend Arctic Oil Leases
• Enviros Drop Forest Logging Plan Row After US Nixes Idea
• GCs Name Most Arrogant Law Firms
• Enviros Say Ruling On Fracking Won't Harm States, Industry
• Citrus Dispute Turns To High Court Over Fla. Appeals Process
• 5 Firms Make It Back Onto GCs' Most Adored List
• 3 Firms Know The Secret To Keeping Clients Happy
• No Need To Pause EPA Water Rule Challenge, States Say
• 6th Circ. Won't Rehear Ruling On 'Whiskey Fungus' Suit
• Dean Skelos Coy On Whether He'll Take Stand In Graft Trial
• Deepwater Judge Won't Revisit EPCRA Exclusion Ruling
• 8 Factors That Helped Reduce A $3.5B CWA Penalty
• High Court Won't Review Colo. Renewable Energy Rule
• Where Common Law Litigation And Int'l Arbitration Divide
• What Courts And Experts Are Saying About Vapor Intrusion
• Calif. Rethinks Energy Disclosure Rule For Building Owners
• Fla. Legislature To Face Fracking Battle In Upcoming Session
• Maine Supreme Court Blows Down $100M Wind Project
• CEO Tells Jury Dean Skelos Never Linked Bills To Son's Job
• PETA Says Monkey's Copyright Suit Is No Joke
• Mining Co. Says Tribe's Legal Fees Not Cleanup Costs
• Greenberg Traurig Snags Holland & Hart Environmental Pro
• Can EPA Get It All Done In 2016?
• India Proposes New Green Bond Regulations
• Ex-EPA Heads To Back Clean Power Plan At DC Circ.
• EPA Tells DC Circ. Arch Coal Project Harms Environment
• FSB Sets Up Task Force For Climate-Change Risk Disclosure
• Solar Tech Co. Sues Feds To Halt Tariffs On Modules
• Power Plants Ask DC Circ. To Save EPA Mercury Rule
• The Biggest Environmental Decisions In 2015
• Does The TPP Go Far Enough On Environmental Concerns?
• Blankenship Verdict Shows Ignitive Power Of CEO Candor
• Feds Slam Bids To Stay EPA's Clean Power Plan
• Del. Court Closer To Settling $100M NY Fraud Coverage Clash
• NY Senate Atty Tells Jury She Pushed Co. With Skelos Ties
• Tribal Water Rights Deal Good For Montana, Farms Say
• Hawaii's High Court Blocks Construction Of $1.5B Telescope
• Colo. Gov. Loses Battle With AG Over Enviro Lawsuits
• Mont. Gov.'s Chief Of Staff Plans To Avoid VW MDL
• German GM Unit Denies Report It Faked CO2 Emissions Tests
• Calif. Tribe Says It Didn't Waive Casino Challenge Claims
• Environmental Testing Co. To Pay $3.6M In False Claims Case
• US Accuses WTO Of Overreaching With Tuna Label Ruling
• 5 Tips To Avoid Spoliation Sanctions
• EPA Boiler, Incinerator Rules Too Strict, Industry Tells DC Circ.
• Ag Giant To Pay $43M To End Feds' Sulfuric Acid Suit
• Industry Group Pans EPA's Mercury Rule Cost Update
• Monsanto Seeks To Toss Farmer's Weed Killer Cancer Suit
• EPA Has No Authority To Craft Plant Rule, DC Circ. Told
• Portland's Fossil Fuel Policy Raises Commerce Questions
• House Passes Broad Energy Security Bill
• Ex-Massey CEO Found Guilty Of Conspiracy In Mine Blast Trial
• The Unrealized Promise Of Rule 26 Amendments
• Maui Anti-GMO Law Not Federally Preempted, 9th Circ. Told
• Anadarko's $160M Deepwater Fine Gets Feds' Message Across
• Freight Wins Big In Highway Bill As Banks Hold The Bag
• House Amends Energy Security Bill To Lift Oil Export Ban
• Texas City That Banned Fracking May Hike Gas Well Fees
• Gov't Witness Teased Out Tipsy Adam Skelos' Digits For FBI
• Exxon Taps Paul Weiss Partner Amid NY Climate Probe
• BP, Shell's Exit From Tainted Water Case Headed To 2nd Circ.
• Ore., Calif. Claim Licensing Authority In Tribal Water Row
• Senate Dems Seek Enviro-Friendly Fixes To Fed. Coal Leasing
• BP Deepwater Supervisors Beat Manslaughter Rap
• Shell's $90M Contamination Deal OK'd Over Dole's Objection
• BIA, Oil Drillers Want Landowner Kept Out Of Permit Fight
• Sulfur Dioxide Deal Flouts CAA, States Tell 9th Circ.
• VW India To Recall Hundreds Of Thousands Of Cars
• First Reserve Teams With Mexico Power Group On Wind Farm
• NY AG Asks Feds To Limit Vapor Pressure For Crude-By-Rail
• Uranium Miner Can't Undo Va. Ban, Judge Says
• NextEra Takes Over 17MW Military Solar Project In Hawaii
• 2nd Circ. Urged To Eye Canadian Ruling In $9.5B Chevron Row
• German Regulators Say VW Diesels Break Europe's Rules
• Failure To Warn Precludes Enviros' Ammonia Suit, Judge Says
• EPA Asks 2nd Circ. To Revive Water Transfer Exemption Rule
• 4 Takeaways From Calif. High Court's Greenhouse Gas Ruling
• Settlement Reached In Slashed Navistar Investors' Suit
• House Launches Debate On Contentious Energy Security Bill
• House Votes For Repeal Of EPA Carbon Emission Rules
• 9th Circ. Asked To Boot Tweeting Judge From Wildfire Case
• 9th Circ. Asked To Grant Enviros' Fee Bid In Highway Suit
• CPP Delay Needed, FERC Commish Tells House Energy Panel
• Saturn, Chevy Dealerships Want In On Volkswagen MDL
• Feds Urge High Court Not To Review Fish Habitat Case
• Army Corps Asks Judge For Appeal Of Katrina Liability Finding
• World Fuel Drops Pursuit Of Derailment Spill Coverage
• Deadlocked Blankenship Jury Receives Allen Charge
• Making The Most Of Document Analytics