Guam Sues Contractors for Deficient Dump Closure, Waste Release
The government of Guam on Monday sued construction and engineering companies for their allegedly faulty design of a closure remedy for the Ordot Dump.
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Massachusetts claims Specialty Minerals Inc. violated various state and federal environmental laws when it released cloudy white wastewater into the Hoosic River.
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The government of Guam on Monday sued construction and engineering companies for their allegedly faulty design of a closure remedy for the Ordot Dump.
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The Environmental Protection Agency strengthened greenhouse gas reporting requirements Monday, adding more options for methane emissions monitoring and analysis.
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Willkie Farr & Gallagher is launching a Dallas office, a decade after Willkie announced the opening of its Houston office. The two offices together will focus on private equity, mergers and acquisitions and transactional work, both in the energy sector and beyond, the firm said.
Michael Siekman has joined Goodwin’s life sciences practice as a partner in the Boston office, the firm said Monday.
Thomas Duncan has joined Faegre Drinker as a partner in the government and regulatory practice in Philadelphia, the firm said Monday. Duncan represents clients in environmental and energy transactional matters, regulatory counseling, and environmental litigation before state and federal courts and administrative tribunals, according to Faegre Drinker.
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Millburn Township, whose largest community is Short Hills, may be forced to build on the dump after a state court ruled last month that it will decide where the development will go. The town had agreed to build on the polluted site three years ago, only to backtrack.
A consortium of buyers plan to take Minnesota-based utility company Allete private in a deal worth $6.2 billion.
Alexandra Steinberg Barrage has joined Troutman Pepper in the Washington, D.C., office, the firm said Monday.
A group of conservative federal judges say they won’t hire law clerks from Columbia University, saying they have “lost confidence” in the institution over its handling of student protests tied to the Israel-Hamas war.
Paul Trahan has been appointed partner-in-charge of Norton Rose Fulbright’s Austin, Texas, office, the firm said Monday.
A Washington federal appeals court questioned the Justice Department’s claim that a five-year sentence for a Florida man who participated in the Capitol riot would be unchanged even if the lower court applied the wrong sentencing guideline.
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