U.S. Supreme Court Allows Landowners’ State-Law Challenge to Ongoing CERCLA Remediation
The United States Supreme Court decided that landowners can sue under state common law for restoration of their properties located within the boundaries of a Superfund site.
Reopening the Economy Under COVID-19: States Plot a Way Back
Governing is keeping a running tally of coronavirus news and impacts at the intersection of the health and economic crises in the states and localities. Here is what you need to know.
Environmental Due Diligence For M&As During The Pandemic
he COVID-19 pandemic has severely disrupted global and domestic M&A activity. Still, parties continue to identify strategic transactions.
Environmental Due Diligence in Real Estate Transactions During the COVID-19 Crisis
Real property transactions (purchases, leases and foreclosures) need not be put on hold due to uncertainty surrounding the ability to obtain available environmental liability protections.
Environmentally Challenged Property Foreclosures In A Crisis
nvironmentally challenged properties were front and center of many troubled transactions in the last major economic downturn.
A five-layered defense for workplace reopening
Harvard healthy-buildings expert has laid out a lower-cost, five-layered approach for employers and building managers as they consider how to safely reopen their establishments and get America back to work.
Addressing climate change in a post-pandemic world
The coronavirus crisis holds profound lessons that can help us address climate change—if we make greater economic and environmental resiliency core to our planning for the recovery ahead.
Environmental Due Diligence For M&As During The Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely disrupted global and domestic M&A activity. Still, parties continue to identify strategic transactions.
Seven REIT Sectors That Could Be Positioned to Weather the Storm
Based on their year-to-date returns and growth prospects, NREI compiled a list of the REIT sectors that stand the best chance of weathering this economy.
Clean Water Act Covers Groundwater Discharges, Supreme Court Rules
In a 6-to-3 ruling, the court rejected arguments by a county in Hawaii and the Trump administration that only pollution discharged directly into navigable waters requires permits.
