Environmental Law Blog

In Coastal Envtl. Rights Found. v. Am. Recycling Int’l, Inc., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 202649 (SD CA, December 8, 2017), the District Court denied defendant’s Motion to Dismiss plaintiff’s claims brought under the citizen suit provision of the Cle… Read More

In Douglass v. Shamrock Paving, Inc., 2017 Wash. LEXIS 1149 (December 21, 2017), the Washington Supreme Court held that soil testing conducted by a landowner qualified as a “remedial action” under the state’s Model Toxics Control Act Read More

In Black Warrior Riverkeeper, Inc. v. Metro Recycling, Inc., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 207011 (ND AL, December 18, 2017), the District Court granted defendant’s Motion to Dismiss plaintiffs’ claims brought under the citizen suit provisions of the Cle… Read More

On September 19, 2016, Marin Superior Court Judge Paul M. Haakenson granted judgment in favor of ELG’s client, the Point San Pedro Road Coalition (“Coalition”), on its Petition for a Writ of Administrative Mandate (“Petition”). (See decisio… Read More

In August 2013, after five years of joint effort among manufacturers, consumers, environmentalists, and the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), the Safer Consumer Products regulations (Regulations), previously known as the Green Chemistry… Read More

The Ninth Circuit issued an opinion on May 2, 2014 reversing the district court for the Central District of California regarding the admissibility of the opinion offered by the plaintiff’s expert regarding the source of perchlorate contamination in… Read More

In State of Arizona v. Raytheon Co.. et al., Case No. 12-15691, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 14993 (9th Cir. Aug. 1, 2014), the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed the requirement that district courts engage in meaningful substantive review of consent decrees under the… Read More

The District Court for the Central District of California recently held in an unpublished opinion that a party cannot bring a CERCLA § 107(a) cost recovery action for response costs which relate to a common liability shared with an earlier § 107(a)… Read More