01 Jun, 2021 Boston Harbor "Levee" Plan Doesn't Have a Snowball's Chance in a Warming Climate By Jeff Porter Yesterday former State Senator Golden penned this op ed in the Boston Globe calling for a regional "levee" to protect the 15 Boston...
01 Apr, 2021 Disputes over Water Come East By Jeff Porter Today Justice Barrett, writing for a unanimous Supreme Court, concluded that the State of Florida had not shown that the State of Georgia...
30 Mar, 2021 Just (Knowingly) Add Water Part 2 By Jeff Porter Lara Beaven of Inside EPA shares this interesting piece on the obstacles to criminal prosecutions of the Clean Water Act that brings to...
22 Mar, 2021 It may only take a minute to fall in love but litigation takes a whole lot longer By Jeff Porter In 1975 Tavares sang that it only takes a minute to fall in love. If that seems like a long time ago to some of you, consider the fact...
17 Mar, 2021 A Drop in the PFAS Response Bucket By Jeff Porter Kudos to the Baker-Polito Administration for getting $3 million in state aid to 17 communities struggling to figure out what to do about...
15 Mar, 2021 Paracelsus and PFAS By Jeff Porter A half a millennium ago the Renaissance Physician Philosopher Parcelsus wrote "only the dose makes the poison." Modern day Government...
10 Mar, 2021 That Tiger Didn't Go Crazy; That Tiger Went Tiger! By Jeff Porter "Creativity knows no bounds when it comes to citizen suits." Truer words have never been spoken. But I long for the old days when one...
08 Mar, 2021 Just (Knowingly) Add Water for a Federal Clean Water Act Criminal Conviction By Jeff Porter In this case the Defendant engaged in a "scheme" charging contractors to place fill in what met the regulatory definition of wetlands but...
23 Nov, 2020 Potential SCOTUS Decision Mandating Climate Change Litigation Only in Federal Courts By Jacob H. Hupart Earlier this week, the opening brief in a climate change action was filed in the Supreme Court. Although the issue before the Supreme...
15 Nov, 2020 Potential Climate Change Litigation by the Federal Government in a Biden Administration By Jacob H. Hupart Over the past few years, climate change litigation--principally against private fossil fuel companies--has mainly been pursued by local...