The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Zack Needles | April 5, 2018
The court is scheduled to hear arguments April 10 and April 11.
By Amanda Bronstad | March 26, 2018
Asbestos filings fell in 2017, and it didn't matter whether they were brought over mesothelioma, lung cancer or other forms of cancer, according to consulting firm KCIC.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Michael N. Mills and Shannon Morrissey | March 15, 2018
On Feb. 1, the Ninth Circuit upheld the Hawaii district court's decision finding that the County of Maui (county) violated the CWA when it discharged treated effluent into underground injection wells, which then allowed the effluent to seep into the Pacific Ocean.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Carol F. McCabe and Claudia V. Colón | January 11, 2018
President Donald Trump took office last January with a keen focus on minimizing regulatory burdens imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency. In the first months of his presidency, Trump took aim at many Obama-era regulations, issuing a spate of executive orders promoting deregulation, reduced regulatory costs, energy independence, expedited environmental reviews for infrastructure projects and economic growth.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By P.J. D'Annunzio | December 1, 2017
A federal judge has doubled the compensation awarded to four fracking crane operators who sued a drilling company for failing to pay overtime wages.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By David G. Mandelbaum | October 26, 2017
On Oct. 16, the Environmental Protection Agency published its proposal to repeal the carbon pollution emission guidelines for existing electric power plants, the centerpiece of the Clean Power Plan, 82 Fed. Reg. 48,035.
By Ben Seal | October 26, 2017
A coal miner injured while shoveling out of a massive spill presented sufficient evidence to establish the extent and duration of his disability and its causation, the Commonwealth Court has ruled in affirming a workers' compensation determination in his favor.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | July 21, 2017
Fiscal enactments diverting proceeds from sale and lease of public natural resources away from environmental conservation into the general fund violated commonwealth's obligation as trustee, since proceeds from trust assets were required to be returned to corpus of trust or dedicated to trust purposes. Order of the commonwealth court reversed.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | July 14, 2017
Statute's silence as to inclusion of coal mine operators in benefit entitlement presumption standard meant that federal agencies were empowered to promulgate regulations filling in statutory gap. Order of the Benefits Review Board affirmed.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | June 2, 2017
OOR erred in holding that a "well site" was not an "industrial plant" and court found that investigative reports pertaining to well sites were public records in a RTKL action but OOR correctly held that DEP met its burden of showing that certain records were exempt under the attorney-client privilege and/or work product doctrine, records relating to the location of radioactive material were exempt under public safety and security concerns, other documents were exempt under trade secret and confidential information, the notes and working papers, internal predecisional deliberation and noncriminal investigation exemptions. Affirmed in part and reversed in part.
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