SPR Principal Pamela Esterman will serve as a panelist for “50 Shades of Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Environmental Practice,” from 4:15-5:15 p.m. on Friday, April 24 at the ABA SEER Spring Conference in Minneapolis, MN. Pamela will be joined by Jeffrey Pollock, of Pollock Law, LLC. The panel will examine ethical issues associated with communications…

SPR Associate Kayley McGrath is serving as the co-chair for NYSBA’s 2026 Annual Oil Spill Symposium, which will take place on Wednesday, May 6, 2026, from 12:30 – 4:30 p.m. SPR is proud to sponsor this year’s symposium. NYSBA’s Annual Oil Spill Symposium is a premier event bringing together legal practitioners, environmental consultants, and government…

SPR Associate Claire McNulty recently published her article “The Current State of Electric Vehicle Incentives in New York and Beyond” in the LexisNexis newsletter Environmental Law in New York. Electric vehicles (EVs) have enjoyed increasing popularity in recent years as an alternative to the U.S.’s overwhelmingly fossil fuel-based transportation sector. In her article, Claire discusses…

On February 19-20, SPR Principals Pamela Esterman, Daniel Riesel, Elizabeth Knauer, and Maggie Macdonald will speak at the Environmental Law 2026 Conference, co-sponsored by the American Law Institute and Environmental Law Institute. The conference will take place at the Washington Marriott Georgetown in Washington, D.C. and is also available via live webcast. The conference will…

SPR Attorneys Meg Holden and Michael Hannaman recently published “New York’s Transmission Reform in a Shifting Federal Energy Landscape” in The New York Environmental Lawyer (Vol 45 No. 3). In their article, Meg and Michael explore how New York is pushing ahead on transmission reform to meet its climate goals despite federal rollbacks on renewable…

Environmental Enforcement: Civil and Criminal, the leading text on environmental enforcement, has recently been updated for the 57th time. The book, first written in 1997 by SPR co-founder Dan Riesel, has been consistently updated by the firm’s lawyers, reflecting the firm’s extensive environmental law practice. For this recent edition, Meg Holden, Alexis Saba, Dane Warren, Ahlia Bethea,…