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Attys Watch And Wait As Q2 Litigation Holds Steady
Crowell & Moring LLP Environment & Natural Resources Group co-chair Chet M. Thompson is featured for his comments on the second quarter of 2010 increase in environmental litigation cases. According to Thompson, he attributed the spike in environmental filings to litigation over the April 20 spill, as well as challenges to the new rulemaking coming from the Obama administration.
July 12, 2010 – Law360
Crowell & Moring Client Fights to Build Wind Farm
Crowell & Moring LLP client Invenergy Wind LLC is featured for its fight to build a wind farm in Greenbrier County, WV. The first of it's kind case presents important issues of first impression for the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and its relationship to wind energy projects on private lands. Crowell & Moring defended Invenergy in a four-day bench trial in federal court in Greenbelt, MD that concluded on October 29. The ruling is forthcoming. The trial team included partners Clifford J. Zatz and Kirsten L. Nathanson, associates Jessica A. Hall, and Antonio Gonzalez Mendoza, with support from ESA attorneys Steven P. Quarles, J. Michael Klise, and Thomas R. Lundquist.
October 22, 2009 - The Washington Post
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Crowell & Moring LLP’s recent addition of seven senior lawyers to the firm’s Environment & Natural Resources Group was featured in Energy and Environment Law360.
The additions further enhances Crowell & Moring's nationally recognized energy, resource development, and climate change practices and included five partners along with two senior attorneys from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of the Interior. The article also highlighted the opening of a Crowell & Moring office in Anchorage, AK,
August 19, 2009 – Energy Law360 and Environmental Law360
U.S. Version of Reach Regulation is 'On the Agenda'
Crowell & Moring LLP partner James C. Chen, a partner in the firm's Environment & Natural Resources Group and Product Risk Management practice, and Brussels-based Product Risk Management Group associate Giles Chappell are featured in Chemical Week for their thoughts on the Registration, Evaluation, and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) program and what a U.S. version could look like given the increased focus on U.S. chemicals legislation reform in the new Congress.
February 11, 2009 - Chemical Week
On October 1, 2008, the lawyers of white collar law firm Lightfoot Vandevelde Sadowsky Crouchley Rutherford & Levine LLP joined Crowell & Moring, opening its Los Angeles office and boosting its ability to provide corporate and individual clients with top quality white collar litigation counsel in California. All seven of its lawyers and its entire staff joined Crowell & Moring to launch its new office. The news was featured in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, The Recorder, Securities Law360, Bloomberg News, National Law Journal, etc…
October 6, 2008 – Los Angeles Daily Journal
"Global Warming: Preparing for Change"
Crowell & Moring Environment & Natural Resources Group co-chair Chet M. Thompson (also the former Deputy General Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) is featured in Chemical Week’s climate change cover story for his comments on recent policy developments and how companies can receive maximum benefits while lowering compliance costs.
July 28, 2008 – Chemical Week Magazine
"EPA Signals Go-Slow Approach on Global Warming Rules"
Co-chair of Crowell & Moring’s Environment & Natural Resources Group Chet M. Thompson is featured for his comments on the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to seek public comment by way of an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA. Thompson is the former Deputy General Counsel of the EPA.
March 27, 2008 – Associated Press. Additional placements for Thompson on this topic included: Inside Washington’s Carbon Control News, Defense Environment Alert, Inside EPA, Clean Air Report, and Risk Policy Report; BNA’s Daily Report for Executives and Daily Environment Report; Crain’s Waste News; Platts Oilgram News; and Energy Law360
"Biodiversity: A Passion for Science, Politics, or Both"
Environment & Natural Resources Partner Steven P. Quarles was cited for his thoughts on the subject of biodiversity in a recent review of Timothy J. Farnham's book, Saving Nature's Legacy: Origins of the Idea of Biological Diversity. Reviewer and environmental consultant G. Tracy Mehan III, a member of the Board of Directors of the Potomac Conservancy and an Adjunct Professor at George Mason University School of Law, cited the Crowell & Moring partner for his thoughts on the blurring of science, policy, and politics as a contributing factor to the controversy surrounding the Endangered Species Act.
May/June 2008 – The Environmental Forum
Crowell & Moring’s Torts practice, along with co-chairs of the practice Scott L. Winkelman and Kathleen Taylor Sooy, are featured in Product Liability Law360. The piece highlights the history of the practice as well as some of their top client work in recent years.
September 7, 2007- Product Liability Law 360
Co-chair of Crowell & Moring’s Environment & Natural Resources Group, and former general counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Ann R. Klee is featured for her comments on climate change, environmental regulations in Europe, and the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH) regulations. While the U.S. has a lengthy history of REACH regulations it remains to be seen if the U.S. will model its rules after the European Union.
June 2007 – The In-House Lawyer
"Former EPA Counsel Warns Mercury Suit May Hinder Future CO2 Rules"
Environment & Natural Resources Group co-chair and former EPA General Counsel Ann Klee warns that the environmentalists’ challenge of an EPA cap-and-trade program to regulate mercury emissions could undermine the agency's authority to set up a similar program for greenhouse gases (GHGs).
April 25, 2007 - Inside EPA and Clean Air Report
"Supreme Court’s Green Rulings Offer Industry No Relief From Litigation"
Environment & Natural Resources Group partner Chet M. Thompson talks about the Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy case in which the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the EPA. The court overturned a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that said the modifications Duke made to its coal-fired power plants between 1988 and 1999 did not require permits because those changes did not increase the facilities' hourly emissions rates.
April 9, 2007 – Platts Coal Outlook
"EPA Faces Challenges With Nanotpesticides, But Not From FIFRA, Speakers Say"
Environment & Natural Resources Group partner James Chen is featured for his comments on the EPA’s authority to regulate nanopesticides under the auspices of FIFRA and the challenges the EPA will face in determining whether a product is actually “ nano ” and assessing it for health and safety.
April 2, 2007 - Pesticide & Toxic Chemical News
"Climate Change: Bush Touts Boost in Renewable Fuels Target, New CAFÉ Authority to Curb T.S. Emissions"
Crowell & Moring partner and former EPA General Counsel Ann Klee is featured in BNA’s Daily Environment Report for her comments on the president’s energy initiative plan outlined in the January 23, 2007 State of the Union address.
January 24, 2007 – BNA Daily Environment Report, No. 15, ISSN 1521-9402
Environment & Natural Resources Group partner and former general counsel of the Environmental Protection Agency Ann R. Klee, gives an exclusive interview with Bisnow’s General Counsel Weekly.
January 17, 2007– Bisnow General Counsel Weekly, Vol. 19, No. 2
"Supreme Court Takes On Global Warming?"
Environment & Natural Resources partner and former General Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Ann R. Klee discusses oral arguments heard before the U.S. Supreme Court in Massachusetts v. EPA. Klee was also highlighted on this case in the Associated Press, Detroit News, BNA’s Daily Report for Executives, Platts Coal Trader, Argus Air Daily, Automotive News and other publications.
November 29, 2006 – Forbes
"Q&A with Former EPA General Counsel Ann Klee"
Environment & Natural Resources Law Group partner Ann Klee, former general counsel at the Environmental Protection Agency, answers questions on her decision to leave the EPA and join Crowell & Moring.
August 11, 2006 – Argus Air Daily
"Timothy M. Biddle Discusses Mine Safety Regulations on MSNBC"
Environmental & Natural Resources partner Timothy M. Biddle appears on MSNBC's Scarborough Country to discuss coal industry safety and regulations. He cites the 90 percent improvement rate in mine safety achieved by the industry since the 1970s.
January 11, 2006 – MSNBC Scarborough Country
Environment & Natural Resources partner R. Timothy McCrum is featured for his client work regarding a significant ruling in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court.
August 2005 – Big Builder
"Endangered Species Act Faces Broad New Challenges"
Steven Quarles, chair of the Natural Resources and Environmental Group, was cited for his insights on the Endangered Species Act.
June 22, 2005 – New York Times
"Richard Schwartz Joins Pork Industry Leaders to Discuss EPA Agreement on Web-cast"
Partner Richard E. Schwartz participated in a Web-cast panel discussion regarding the EPA's Clear Air Consent Agreement. Schwartz participated with National Pork Board Vice President Danita Rodibaugh and Indiana Pork Producers Association (IPPA) President Alan Wilhoite, among others, to discuss the advantages and consequences of signing up for the agreement and proper documentation for signing up for the program and related research. The deadline to sign up for EPA's Air Emissions Consent Agreement is July 1, 2005.
April 18, 2005
"Richard Schwartz Quoted in Farm Chronicle Article"
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