GT attorneys Steven Russo, Zackary Knaub, and Jane McLaughlin discuss New York State’s cap-and-invest program to limit greenhouse gas emissions and share revenue with New Yorkers from disadvantaged communities to help cover utility bills, transportation costs, and decarbonization.   The program is expected to help New York meet the requirements of the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act of cutting greenhouse gas emissions 40% by 2030 and at least 85% by 2050, both below 1990 levels. Large-scale greenhouse gas emitters and distributors of heating a ..read more

This episode is part two of a two-part series that focuses on the US and European federal and state governmental roles in hydrogen development with Greenberg Traurig attorneys, Marijn Bodelier of Amsterdam, Martin Borning of Berlin, Pietro Caliceti of Milan, and the firm’s Energy Practice Co-chair Bill Garner. Special guests include Heike Bernhardt of the German engineering firm of DEEP.KBB of Hanover, Frederik de Vries from Dutch consulting firm, Rebel Group, of Rotterdam, and Katrina Fritz, the Executive Director of the California Stationary Fuel Collaborative in the United States ..read more

This episode is part one of a two-part series that focuses on the US and European federal and state governmental roles in hydrogen development with Greenberg Traurig attorneys, Marijn Bodelier of Amsterdam, Martin Borning of Berlin, Pietro Caliceti of Milan, and the firm’s Energy Practice Co-chair Bill Garner. Special guests include Heike Bernhardt of the German engineering firm of DEEP.KBB of Hanover, Frederik de Vries from Dutch consulting firm, Rebel Group, of Rotterdam, and Katrina Fritz, the Executive Director of the California Stationary Fuel Collaborative in the United States ..read more

The first episode in Greenberg Traurig’s 2022 Evolving Environmental Law Series, addresses the New Environmental Rights Amendment to the New York Constitution.  The Amendment was recently enacted and will go into effect in January of 2022. It is a very short provision, but has the potential, as we're going to discuss, to provide a fair amount of uncertainty and questions about what it exactly is going to mean for New Yorkers ..read more

Tune in for analysis from Greenberg Traurig shareholders Bernadette Rappold and Christopher Torres on some of the most significant environmental enforcement, litigation, and agency decisions and actions in 2020. They review the EPA’s National Compliance Initiatives and outline key takeaways from notable civil and criminal cases and settlements involving the Toxic Substances Control Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. They also break down two notable environmental Supreme Court ruli ..read more

Greenberg Traurig Shareholder Bernadette Rappold and her guest, Travis Kline, Geosyntec’s Senior Principal Toxicologist, discuss the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act or FIFRA. Listen as they offer tips and pointers for bringing disinfectants to market – especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. They also discuss what to avoid and provide suggestions for navigating the highly data-dependent steps through this complex regulatory process of registration, permits, labeling, testing, and application submission.  ..read more

With former Vice-President Joe Biden declared President-Elect on Nov. 7, 2020, Greenberg Traurig Shareholders Steven C. Russo and Zackary D. Knaub discuss how the new administration may impact energy and environmental law in New York. The two discuss how Biden's election could unleash a flurry of new infrastructure projects, prioritize climate change and renewable energy, and increase enforcement of environmental law and regulations in the state ..read more

Host Steve Russo interviews Julie Tighe, President of the New York League of Conservation Voters, about the latest legislation for renewable energy siting in New York. The two discuss Article 10, New York’s new energy siting law passed in 2011, and the new Accelerated Renewable Energy and Community Benefits Act, proposed in early 2020 by Governor Cuomo to address the issues of Article 10 and to help meet the State’s ambitious climate goals. This is the latest episode of Empire Environmental, a mini-series of Legal Environmental Insights ..read more

In part 5 of the Getting Through mini-series, Shareholder Michael A. Nicodema discusses equestrian law,  its intersections with environmental law, industry-specific challenges and legal issues arising during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how the industry and Greenberg Traurig’s industry team have adapted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Environmental Shareholder Bernadette M. Rappold hosts the episode ..read more

GT Shareholders Zackary D. Knaub and Steven C. Russo explore states’ authority to issue, deny or attach conditions to “water quality certification,” under the Clean Water Act, and the recent EPA rule aimed at reducing the states’ ability to use this authority to block controversial interstate infrastructure projects, such as fossil fuel pipelines ..read more