Sentences with phrase «including environmental contamination»

Represents owners of commercial real estate in property disputes, including environmental contamination claims.

In terms of professional negligence disputes, these have included disputes over negligent surveys and legal advice, including environmental contamination.

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One student posed the question, «Fracking can lead to environmental pollution including, but not limited to, the contamination of water supply.

Moreover, the transformation of farming into an agribusiness has brought with it a host of environmental problems, including ground water depletion and contamination, soil toxification, and contamination of food supplies.

Among the services DP&F can provide are assistance with sales and purchases of wineries and vineyards, debt / equity financing, grape sale / purchase agreements, alcohol beverage regulation, land use planning, environmental regulation, establishment of wine appellations, broker and distribution agreements and terminations, license transfers, labeling matters, litigation involving wine contamination (including cork taint), and business succession planning.

The Republican plan includes investments aimed at clean water infrastructure, more funding for environmental protection and strengthening measures designed to monitor chemical contaminations.

Afterwards, Boyajian found a home at the Albany law firm co-founded by his father, Dreyer Boyajian LLP, where he practiced municipal and environmental law, including representing communities affected by PCB contamination of the St. Lawrence and Hudson Rivers.

«That includes this year's landmark achievements to fully fund the Environmental Protection Fund and the new law just signed to require schools statewide to test their drinking water systems for lead contamination.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released new health advisories for PFOA and PFOS, the manufacturing chemicals at the center of water contamination crises in several communities in the region including Hoosick Falls, Petersburgh, and North Bennington.

UPDATE - On Wednesday afternoon, the commissioners of the Department of Health and Environmental Conservation declared the community a state Superfund site, allowing emergency actions to commence including accessing and cleaning up the contamination.

Because of such concerns the U.S. Department of Energy has convened a special task force to improve the safety and environmental impacts of such fracking for natural gas, including how best to dispose of the voluminous wastewater as well as ensuring proper sealing of wells to prevent such groundwater contamination.

Water Pollution from Coal includes negative health and environmental effects from the mining, processing, burning, and waste storage of coal, including acid mine drainage, thermal pollution from coal plants, acid rain, and contamination of groundwater, streams, rivers, and seas from heavy metals, mercury, and other toxins and pollutants found in coal ash, coal sludge, and coal waste.

Developed exclusively for residential real estate transactions, the report delivers information about a property and the neighborhood around it from a database of more than 23 million records including local, state and federal records of known environmental contamination in the United States over the last 100 years.

The article includes information on the environmental contamination from the storm from SkyTruth Alerts.

Corn ethanol's environmental record has failed to meet expectations across a number of metrics that include air pollutants, water contamination, and soil erosion.

The collection of writings is diverse in geographic focus and issue - areas: including climate change, «megadams», nuclear testing, tree planting, toxic contamination, fossil fuel extraction, and the environmental consequences of armed conflict.

Locally, communities not only lose access to water and land resources, but are subjected to the environmental degradation that comes along with monocrop cultivation, including soil and water contamination from pesticide pollution and soil erosion.

Due to the terminal's unprecedented risks to the health, safety, local economies and natural resources of Northwest communities, the Washington State Department of Ecology and Whatcom County planned to consider the project's broad impacts in the environmental impact statement, including coal dust around the terminal, rail traffic and coal dust along rail lines and waterways in Montana, Idaho and Washington; and the effects of burning coal overseas on the Northwest, particularly regarding climate pollution and mercury contamination.

Organizations, including the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Integrity Project and some six others, want updated rules covering disposal of fracking wastewater in underground injection wells, which have been linked to river contamination most recently in West Virginia, and earthquakes in Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and California.

The Energy Commission will continue to monitor the potential environmental impacts associated with shale gas extraction, including carbon footprint, volume of water use and risk of groundwater contamination, air pollution, and potential chemical leakage.

The food safety issues covered include: agents of food - borne disease with specific consideration of zoonotic diseases, mycotoxin contamination, biotoxins in fishery products and environmental contaminants with significance to the food chain.

While natural gas production from shale formations has significantly increased domestic production, there is ongoing investigation of potential environmental concerns related to shale gas development, including carbon emissions and possible groundwater contamination.

Environmental impacts include acid rain, bioaccumulation of toxic metals, contamination of water bodies, reducing visibility and degradation of buildings and monuments.

Carine is a member of several scientific committees (including INTERSOL, relating to soil contamination and ATMOSF» AIR, relating to air issues), and is also involved in various environmental law working groups and think - tanks.

Our lawyers have defended class actions and individual cases alleging personal injury and property damage from environmental contamination or exposure to chemical products based on all types of legal theories, including negligence, fraud, failure to warn, negligent misrepresentation, trespass, private and public nuisance and damage claims such as «fear of cancer» and medical monitoring.

His environmental and tort litigation experience includes dozens of products liability actions in California State and Federal District Courts and multi-district litigation proceedings in the Southern District of New York that arise out of MTBE contamination of drinking water aquifers, as well as actions brought under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act («CERCLA»), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act («RCRA»), California Proposition 65, the Clean Air Act, and various state and federal criminal laws, environmental laws, or toenvironmental and tort litigation experience includes dozens of products liability actions in California State and Federal District Courts and multi-district litigation proceedings in the Southern District of New York that arise out of MTBE contamination of drinking water aquifers, as well as actions brought under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act («CERCLA»), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act («RCRA»), California Proposition 65, the Clean Air Act, and various state and federal criminal laws, environmental laws, or toEnvironmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act («CERCLA»), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act («RCRA»), California Proposition 65, the Clean Air Act, and various state and federal criminal laws, environmental laws, or toenvironmental laws, or tort doctrines.

Mr. Kaplan has successfully represented various insurers in a multitude of complex coverage disputes, including disputes stemming from claims for directors and officers liability, professional liability, environmental contamination, disparagement of competitor's products, violation of false claims act statutes, construction defects, trademark, copyright and patent infringement, and violation of constitutional rights.

Among other areas, our litigation experience in the environmental area includes governmental and private - party actions under CERCLA (including serving as lead counsel for PRP groups at major Superfund sites throughout the United States), citizen suits under RCRA, the Clean Water Act and other environmental laws, claims for property damage and personal injury arising from industrial emissions or environmental contamination, and defending clients against state and federal governmental enforcement actions.

We are capable of handling a broad range of environmental contamination and toxic tort claims, including remediation and litigation under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund) and the New Jersey Spill Compensation andenvironmental contamination and toxic tort claims, including remediation and litigation under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund) and the New Jersey Spill Compensation andEnvironmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund) and the New Jersey Spill Compensation and Control Act.

He also represents clients in environmental litigation, including class action suits alleging ground water contamination and landfill suits alleging improper acceptance, classification and disposal of liquid wastes.

Our lawyers handle every type of energy litigation, including matters involving tax and royalty disputes, environmental contamination, state and federal regulatory matters, pipeline rights - of - way and condemnation, tribal sovereignty, quiet title actions, breach of contract and personal injury.

The team, which included tax counsel Jack Shaughnessy, also helped Columbia Elevator apply for a $ 2 million urban sites grant from the DECD and the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to remediate historic contamination on the property that was limiting its redevelopment.

Our team is experienced in underground storage tank regulation and litigation of actions brought pursuant to California Proposition 65, the Federal Clean Water Act and various state environmental laws and tort doctrines, including actions alleging contamination, product defect and failure to warn regarding methyl tertiary butyl ether («MTBE»).

These matters have included disputes involving fiduciary breach allegations against officers, directors, pension trustees and their advisors, bad faith claims against insurers and allied professions, errors and omissions claims against professionals, environmental contamination and large fires and explosions.

Other topics covered this week included seeking intervener status in an environmental contamination case, automobile insurance, MVA jury trials, motions for summary judgment in the class action context, breach of confidence, family law, bankruptcy and insolvency and solicitors» liens and charging orders.