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SPR is excited to announce our upcoming webinar “2025 DEC Freshwater Wetlands Regulations: Updates for Municipalities and Practitioners” on March 19th at 2:00-3:00 PM EST. This year brings major changes to the New York State freshwater wetlands regulations. As a result of expanding state jurisdiction, many more projects will need wetland permits from the Department…
On February 20-21, 2025, SPR Principals Pamela Esterman, Daniel Riesel, and Elizabeth Knauer will co-chair the annual American Law Institute Continuing Legal Education (ALI CLE) Environmental Law Conference, co-sponsored by the Environmental Law Institute. This year, the program will take place at the Washington Marriott Georgetown. For more detailed information and online registration, click HERE. The program…
SPR is proud to announce the Firm’s extraordinary results in 2024 for clients with sites in the New York State Brownfield Cleanup Program (BCP). The BCP is a voluntary, incentive-based program in which contaminated properties known as “brownfields” can be remediated for redevelopment and reuse. The successful remediation of a BCP site culminates in the…
The public comment period on NYSDEC’s proposed amendments to the 6 NYCRR Part 375 regulations governing State remedial programs, including the State Superfund Program, Brownfield Cleanup Program, and Environmental Restoration Program, will soon conclude on January 31, 2025. Interested stakeholders may continue to submit written public comments to NYSDEC via email or postmarked by January…
On Tuesday, February 4th, from 1:00-2:30 PM, SPR Principal Maggie Macdonald will speak in a Strafford Live CLE Webinar entitled: “NEPA Implementation After the Marin Audubon Society Ruling: Enforceability of CEQ Rules, Impact of New Administration.” Registration is available HERE. Maggie and her fellow panelists will discuss the D.C. Circuit’s unexpected Nov. 12, 2024, decision…
On Thursday, January 30, 2025, 1:00-2:30pm EST, Daniel Riesel and Dane Warren will speak at a Strafford Live CLE webinar entitled “Environmental Litigation: Piercing the Corporate Veil, Alter Ego, and Successor Liability.” Click HERE to register. The program will provide environmental litigators with an analysis of legal theories that, in unique circumstances, allow private and…