Environmental Law News and Insights

On Wednesday, February 7, Congressman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) introduced a federal resolution to recognize a "duty" of the federal government to create a Green New Deal (GND). Deal (GND). This blog discussed the GND in a post on the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis on January 31. Addressing climate change...

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Environmental justice is an idea that may have finally caught on in Trenton. On January 24, 2019, an environmental justice bill, S1700, was reported out of the Senate Environment and Energy committee after a unanimous vote. This bill, originally introduced in February 2018, will now head to the Senate Budget...

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This Corner Briefing highlights new Environmental Screening Levels (ESLs) established by the San Francisco Regional Water Quality Control Board on Jan. 24, 2019. The new ESLs have the potential for making sites that cleared environmental screening levels yesterday "at risk" today. The changed screening levels can have implications for all...

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