Sentences with phrase «environmental attorney for»

She was named a 2016 Environmental «MVP» by Law360, and is also consistently recognized by Legal 500 US, Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers as a leading environmental attorney for corporate transactions.

The 36 - acre Murphy's Island is one of the most polluted areas of the lakeshore, said Alma Lowry, an environmental attorney for the Onondaga Nation.

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A CNN analysis has found that embattled Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt paid himself nearly $ 65,000 in reimbursements from his two campaigns for Oklahoma attorney general, a move at least...

A CNN analysis has found that embattled Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt paid himself nearly $ 65,000 in reimbursements from his two campaigns for Oklahoma attorney general, a move at least one...

Jan 04,2016... He is Vic Yannacone (right), fiery attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund, the nation's most mi...

He is Vic Yannacone (right), fiery attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund, the nation's most militant conservation group, and he hauls into court those who wantonly defile our habitat

In my real life, I'm an environmental attorney specializing in consumer product labeling and Proposition 65 and have been for 15 years.

Prior to becoming an attorney, I was an environmental engineer for 5 years.

Chris Amato, a staff attorney for Earth Justice and former official with the state's Department of Environmental Conservation, said his organization has experienced delays at that agency and the Public Service Commission that have made it difficult to weigh in on policy proposals.

Host Alan Chartock is joined by John Cahill, the GOP candidate for New York attorney general and a former Chief of Staff to Governor Pataki and Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation.

Attorneys for the Trump administration and the developer of the Keystone XL pipeline are again pushing a federal court to dismiss an environmental challenge against the project.

Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. announced that he supports Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's move to file a notice of intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for violating the federal Clean Air Act by failing to...

Loguidice filed a separate lawsuit in late 2014, claiming that she was fired from her job as an attorney for the Department of Environmental Conservation due to her connection to the truck.

ALBANY — A federal judge has rejected state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's lawsuit seeking to force a full environmental review before the Delaware River Basin Commission allows natural gas drilling in a watershed that provides drinking water for millions of New Yorkers.

Phillip Musegaas of Riverkeeper, the influential environmental group whose first prosecuting attorney was Cuomo's former brother - in - law Robert Kennedy Jr., said, «Entergy has needlessly fought the cooling tower for 11 years, and could have chosen the easier option if it followed the state's suggestion 11 years ago.

Don Boyajian, a municipal and environmental attorney in Saratoga County, raised $ 208,000 ahead of the Federal Elections Commission's third quarter deadline on Sept. 30, a haul the first - time candidate's campaign says makes him the frontrunner for the nomination.

The county attorney says that offer is actually to accept the county's appraised price, plus environmental expenses, for the property.

He did not speak specifically to any appointees other than Carson, but Democrats have expressed dismay over the selection of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions for U.S. Attorney General, fast food executive Andrew Puzder to head the Department of Labor, former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon to lead the Small Business Administration, mega-investor Wilbur Ross for the Department of Commerce, billionaire businesswoman Betsy Devos for the Department of Education, ex-Goldman Sachs executive Steven Mnuchin for Department of of the Treasury and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt for the Environmental Protection Agency.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office today is celebrating a key decision from the federal government that would require the Indian Point nuclear facility to submit an action and environmental cleanup plan for accidents before being re-licensed.

The League also got a check for $ 5,000 from environmental attorney Larry Rockefeller, a moderate Republican who recently crossed party lines to endorse Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo and appeared in a campaign ad on the governor's behalf.

Sen. Liz Krueger's office earlier today sent out an advisory for a news conference at City Hall in Manhattan tomorrow at noon that will include Sen. Kevin Parker, Assemblyman Danny O'Donnell, environmental advocate Ramsey Adams, Brooklyn attorney Eric Snyder and Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long.

John Cahill, an environmental commissioner under former Gov. George Pataki, said the No. 1 question he is asked in his bid for state attorney general is «Who is your opponent?»

A defense attorney for one of two defendants accused of dumping contaminated debris at four Suffolk sites questioned two state environmental investigators over what he described as their inaction when visiting two of the sites.

An environmental group and several Democratic senators are demanding a review of the personal email account of Scott Pruitt, the EPA administrator, after he said during confirmation hearings that he never used that account for official business as Oklahoma state attorney general.

Speakers included former Community Board 4 members, civil rights attorney Norman Siegel, representatives from Bronx Council for Environmental Quality, subsidy watchdog Good Jobs New York and NYC Park Advocates.

At Thursday's meeting, village attorney Joseph Prokop said the village applied on Sept. 26 to be the «lead agency» for an environmental review process, believing the Village Board could better oversee concerns about the project.

NEW CITY — Rate - payers might be in for a costly surprise if United Water New York is allowed to increase rates in anticipation of their proposed desalination project, according to an attorney retained by the Town of Ramapo and a collection of other municipal bodies who spoke to the Rockland County Legislature's Environmental Committee on Wednesday.

Big news for Bronx environmental advocates: the Attorney General is giving $ 2 million to borough organizations to help them in their efforts to clean up the pollution in the Bronx River.

Espaillat, the first formerly undocumented immigrant elected to the House, assailed several other Trump's proposed appointees: Breitbart News co-founder Stephen Bannon for chief political strategist; Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions for U.S. Attorney General; Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; fast food magnate Andrew Puzder as Secretary of Labor.

The New York Times reported in 2011 that Cuomo, as New York's attorney general in 2009, used his office to threaten legal action against Chevron when Hinton was being paid $ 10,000 a month as a lobbyist for a group suing the oil giant in a multibillion - dollar court action alleging massive environmental damage in the Amazon.

John Cahill, a former Department of Environmental Conservation commissioner under Pataki and the 2014 Republican nominee for attorney general also endorsement the provision.

Their attorney, Thomas West, accuses Cuomo and his environmental and health commissioners of deliberately dragging their feet for political reasons.

But they have been cited for environmental violations at their properties, including the site of the most recent fire, where piers and bulkhead were poorly maintained, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney's office.

A defense attorney for one of two defendants accused of dumping contaminated debris at four Suffolk sites questioned two state environmental investigators Thursday over what he described as their inaction when visiting two of the sites.

The municipal and environmental attorney feels the region has gotten the «short end of the stick» for far too long.

With Cuomo: Served as the executive deputy attorney general for social justice for entire attorney general term, handling cases related to civil rights, environmental protection, health care and labor.

«There are no deliberations or work product from this group,» said Kate Hudson, director of the New York City Watershed Program for the environmental group Riverkeeper and a former regional attorney for DEC Hudson.

Enck, who worked for a time as former attorney general and Governor Eliot Spitzer's environmental advisor, says Spitzer formed the template for state attorneys general suing the federal EPA, bringing court action 15 times against the Bush administration.

According to the complaint, the groups seek discussions with Matt Pawa, an environmental lawyer for the Climate Accountability Institute; Lem Srolovic, chief of the New York Attorney General's Environmental Protection Bureau; Eric Schneiderman, New York's attorney general; and John Passacantando, former executive director of Grenvironmental lawyer for the Climate Accountability Institute; Lem Srolovic, chief of the New York Attorney General's Environmental Protection Bureau; Eric Schneiderman, New York's attorney general; and John Passacantando, former executive director of GreenpeAttorney General's Environmental Protection Bureau; Eric Schneiderman, New York's attorney general; and John Passacantando, former executive director of GrEnvironmental Protection Bureau; Eric Schneiderman, New York's attorney general; and John Passacantando, former executive director of Greenpeattorney general; and John Passacantando, former executive director of Greenpeace USA.

Enck pushed for the Hudson cleanup when she was an environmental adviser to then - state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.

The attorney for the entity which administers the fund, said at the meeting that the EPA does have to okay the deal, but Matt Driscoll, chairman of the Environmental Facilities Corporation, insists it does not.

The three - person police commission now includes Earla Van Kleeck, a former teacher and a town resident for 30 years; John Kurz of Samsonville, whose experience includes 17 years with the Kingston police department as well as work for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP); and Bob Krause, whose 40 years as an attorney included work in the Suffolk County District Attorney'sattorney included work in the Suffolk County District Attorney'sAttorney's office.

Attorneys for a group called Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), an alliance of science professionals that represented Lundgren in court, alleged that an additional nine USDA scientists also sought help.

For weeks before the hearing, environmental groups campaigned to urge lawmakers to block Pruitt's nomination, saying his litigation as Oklahoma attorney general may have been influenced by energy companies and industry groups that contributed to his election campaigns.

The paper warned of «a veritable feeding frenzy for environmental attorneys.»

Anne Thompson, NBC's chief environmental affairs correspondent, moderated the expert panel, which included (from left): Heidi Cullen, a correspondent for Climate Central, a nonprofit that reports on climate science; Bill Richardson, former governor of New Mexico and a board member of the World Resources Institute, an environmental think tank; Grady Gammage Jr., a practicing attorney and a senior scholar at the ASU Global Institute of Sustainability; and Pat Mulroy, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority.

«More than 90 percent of international agreements the U.S. has joined have followed the same executive process the president just completed for the Paris Agreement, and did not require a trip through the Senate,» said Alex Hanafi, an attorney at the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund.

«Any agency's proposed rulemaking must have a rational basis behind it,» says Robert Routh, an attorney for the Clean Air Council, a Philadelphia environmental organization among those challenging the methane rule suspension.

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Tim Preso, attorney for the environmental law firm Earthjustice, said grizzlies have made a comeback in that region thanks chiefly to habitat protections that curb human activities such as logging.