Court Must Hear Citizen Suit Case to Force River Clean Up under Administrative Consent Order

| November 30, 2011

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently held that the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey could not abstain from hearing a citizen suit case brought under both the federal Clean Water Act and the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and which sought an injunction requiring the defendant [...]

“Fracking NY” Blog Series: Part 3 – Summary of DEC’s 2011 Draft Regulations

| November 21, 2011

In our first two posts (here and here) in the Fracking NY Blog Series, we considered the general background of fracking in the Marcellus Shale region of New York and the 2011 Revised Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Study (“Revised Draft SGEIS”) prepared by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (“DEC”) which studied the [...]

“Fracking NY” Blog Series: Part 2 – Summary of DEC’s 2011 Revised Draft SGEIS

| November 15, 2011

As mentioned in our last NY Fracking Series post, hydraulic fracturing as a method of extracting natural gas is nothing new in New York State.  But the type of high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” now being considered for the Marcellus Shale formation in New York is new.  That’s why it has triggered a revision [...]

Bankruptcy Does Not Discharge All Liability to Cleanup a Contaminated Site: Part II

| November 7, 2011

In our last post, “Bankruptcy Does Not Discharge All Liability to Cleanup a Contaminated Site: Part I,” we discussed the background of In re Mark IV Industries, Inc., 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 110595 (S.D.N.Y., Sept. 28, 2011), describing the events that led up to the filing of the lawsuit and the Bankruptcy Court’s decision.  In [...]