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Latest News in Environmental
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January 18, 2019
Orrick Adds Ex-Norton Rose Energy Tax Expert In NY
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has announced that a former tax partner at Norton Rose Fulbright with a focus on renewable energy joined the firm in its New York office.
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January 18, 2019
6th Circ. Won't Rethink Decision On CWA's Reach
A split Sixth Circuit has said it will not review a panel’s decision concluding the Clean Water Act does not regulate pollutants that travel from a source to navigable waters through groundwater.
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January 18, 2019
Wis. Tribe Appeals To 7th Circ. Over Mich. Mine Ruling
The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin has filed a Seventh Circuit appeal of a lower court ruling that dismissed its suit over a Michigan state permit for a proposed zinc and gold mine, saying the federal government has abandoned its obligation to exercise jurisdiction over the Clean Water Act.
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January 18, 2019
Enviro Co. Owes Ex-Officers Legal Fees, Chancery Hears
Two former officers of industrial and environmental cleanup services company USES Corp. filed suit Friday in Delaware Chancery Court seeking to have the company pay legal fees they incurred in connection with a New York lawsuit over the 2014 purchase of the company.
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January 18, 2019
BLM Had No Right To Key For Tribal-Linked Wells: 10th Circ.
The Tenth Circuit sided with a well operator and a pair of landowners in a dispute over oil and gas lease sites on land linked to an Indian tribe, saying the Bureau of Land Management lacked authority to demand a key to the locks on the sites' gates.
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