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Taft's Environmental Practice provides nationally recognized services in the areas of trial practice, Superfund defense and negotiation, enforcement defense, cost-recovery for plaintiffs and defendants, criminal environmental defense, environmental insurance and toxic tort litigation, mold and sick building litigation, lawsuits involving environmental problems discovered as a result of real property transfers or mergers and acquisitions, Brownfields redevelopment, defense of claims of occupational exposures, and administrative proceedings before state and federal agencies. Taft's environmental lawyers also regularly are engaged in insurance disputes concerning environmental issues and agricultural issues involving CAFOs and CFOs. As a Taft client, you can utilize the capital of 29 intensely motivated and focused attorneys in all facets of environmental law. |
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Two Taft Environmental Attorneys Named Best Lawyers' 2012 Lawyer of the Year
Best Lawyers, one of the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, has named two Taft environmental attorneys "Lawyers of the Year."
- Jackie M. Bennett, Jr. has been named Best Lawyers' 2012 Indianapolis Litigation - Environmental Lawyer of the Year.
- Frank J. Deveau has been named Best Lawyers' 2012 Indianapolis Environmental Law Lawyer of the Year.
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U.S. EPA Malicious Prosecution Results in
$1.6 Million Damages Award
In a stinging 151-page order, a federal district court awarded a former refinery manager and his wife $1,677,000 as the result of a malicious prosecution of an alleged environmental crime investigated by USEPA and the FBI. Vidrine v. United States, Case No. 07-1204 (W.D. La. 9/30/11).
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Three Tips to Better Manage Your Superfund Sites (Tip 2): Hire the Right Team To Tackle Superfund's Post-ROD Complexity
Once the Record of Decision is signed on your Superfund site, cleanup can seem cut and dried. But the reality is that inevitable technical, administrative, and legal knots must be untied along the way. In all phases of the remedy implementation, from design to construction to operation and maintenance, and beyond, a myriad of issues must be favorably resolved. And, just when you think that the work on the site is done, there is always the unexpected, such as Hurricane Irene's flooding of a number of Superfund sites along the east coast last summer.
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New Bill May Postpone Implementation of Clean Air Rules for Cement Kilns
On October 6, 2011, the House of Representatives passed the Cement Sector Regulatory Relief Act of 2011, which, if passed in the Senate and signed by the President, will require the United States Environmental Protection Agency to propose new air quality rules and allow the Portland cement industry more time to adhere to the new rules. The Act will require EPA to pass and finalize the new regulations no later than 15 months after the Act takes effect. The Portland cement industry will then have at least 5 years to comply with the new regulatory standards.
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Indiana to Recover Civil Penalties from Ryland Homes for Stormwater Violations
Indiana, along with 12 other states, will be splitting $625,000 from the Ryland Group, Inc., one of the largest residential home builders in the United States. Ryland will pay this amount to settle violations of the federal Clean Water Act ("CWA"), and corresponding state statutes, alleged in a federal lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice, at the request of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA"), and in connection with the Attorneys General of Indiana, Illinois, Maryland, Nevada, and Virginia.
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Federal Court of Appeals Rules Landowner Not Entitled to Common Law Indemnification
A federal Court of Appeals recently held that a landowner who expressly warranted in his sales contract that his property was not contaminated and breached the warranty through no fault of his own, was not entitled under Illinois law to common law indemnification against the polluter who contaminated the land. Wilder Corporation of Delaware v. Thompson Drainage and Levee District, Case No. 11-1185, (7th Cir. decided September 27, 2011).
To read the facts of the case, I invite you to read my recent blog post on Commonground. |
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