Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) appellate decisions are often complex and difficult to read tomes, filled with multiple United States Code sections and acronyms. On May 4, 2009, the United States Supreme Court...

If you practice real estate law, you need to become conversant with Green Building Law. Maybe your clients not have yet become exposed to green building provisions in contracts or green building governmental regulations or incentives, but they soon will be....

In his acceptance speech in Grant Park Tuesday night, President-elect Obama spoke of a “planet in peril.” As a candidate, he promised to combat global warming and to reduce the country’s dependence on foreign oil. Obama tied energy issues...

Michael B. Gerrard and Arnold & Porter LLP have created a chart that displays all the climate change litigation that has been brought in the U.S. courts, plus some of the administrative cases. The chart is organized by type of case. It contains hot links...

The impacts of global climate change and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have landed in the courts. Litigation against businesses for damages from global warming continues to grow. Businesses of all sizes are now looking at how global climate change may affect...

In this Emerging Issues Commentary, Jessica Ferrell of the Marten Law Group examines efforts by environmental groups to require federal wildlife services to consider climate change impacts in listing decisions under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Among...

A Vermont federal district court’s ruling in Green Mountain Chrysler Plymouth Dodge Jeep v. Crombie that state-level greenhouse gas (GHG) emission requirements for new motor vehicles are not preempted by federal fuel efficiency standards is examined...

Enjoy the LexisNexis complimentary one hour webcast by Steve Jones entitled “Assessing Climate Change: Evaluating Global Warming Impacts under NEPA and State Environmental Review Statutes.” Steve Jones, a partner with the Marten Law Group,...