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With the passage of the Renewable Rikers Act (the act) by the New York City (NYC or the city) Council in February 2021, Rikers Island, the penal colony with a horrific legacy...

CERCLA pre-empts statutes of limitations applicable to state-law tort actions for personal injury or property damage in certain circumstances.

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), commonly referred to as the Superfund law ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...

From Supreme Court rulings on Roundup lawsuits to expanded oil and gas drilling in California, this update covers major environmental law and policy developments affecting businesses and communities. Key stories include challenges to California's plastic recycling requirements, EPA's proposed NEPA procedural changes, and significant water infrastructure funding decisions.

On May 19, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concluded nearly 20 years of effort to adopt rules under Section 316(b) of the Clean Water Act governing the use of cooling water at power plants and industrial facilities.

Subtitle D of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act was designed to be self-implementing. Unlike Subtitle C, which subjects hazardous waste to extensive federal oversight

New Jersey's Spill Compensation and Control Act (the "Spill Act") turns 40 this year. The defining feature of the Spill Act is its prohibition on any unpermitted discharges of hazardous substances.

Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler Talks Data Privacy and Enforcement With Dickstein Shapiro’s Divonne Smoyer.

On November 29, 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the first 10 chemicals that it will evaluate for potential risks to human health and the environment under the "TSCA".

In a recent case, the Appellate Division ruled that a 2001 amendment to the New Jersey Spill Act had essentially nullified a long line of cases which had found that persons who had purchased already-contaminated land were not liable for cleanup costs under the Spill Act.

Whenever commercial or industrial property is sold, leased or financed, the checklist of due diligence items includes a Phase I environmental site assessment (Phase I).

Since Holland & Knight's previous alert about state extended producer responsibility (EPR) laws for packaging, there have been significant developments in the implementation of these programs.

The California Legislature is poised to push forward these proposed bills, whether in their current or revised form.

The comment period closed on June 10, 2019.

the US Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) issued a Proposed Rule that would significantly increase the number of miles of pipelines...

California's Draft Zero Waste Plan (the Draft Plan) lays out an ambitious strategy to eliminate waste and transform material use, reuse, and management across the state.

The amended bills narrow the still expansive scope of products and packaging that would fall within the scope of the regulation.