13 Jul, 2022 The Supreme Judicial Court's Boston Municipal Harbor Plan ruling Is EXACTLY the same as the Supreme Court's West Virginia v. EPA ruling! By Jeff Porter Massachusetts's Supreme Judicial Court has agreed with a Superior Court Judge that the Massachusetts Department of Environmental...
02 May, 2022 This 1st Circuit Clean Water Act decision makes complete sense except in the real world By Jeff Porter Almost two years to the day after the United States Supreme Court's decision in Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, the First Circuit Court of...
16 Feb, 2022 When it comes to coastal resilience, late isn't better than never! By Jeff Porter It is one of the most well worn maxims in the English language: better late than never! But yesterday the National Oceanic and...
20 Dec, 2021 EPA's Stormwater General Permit is Safe. Does it Matter? By Jeff Porter A Colorado-based NGO has dropped its 9th Circuit lawsuit challenging EPA's Multi-Sector General Permit for stormwater discharges...
18 Nov, 2021 What are Courts supposed to do when the Executive Branch says it is incapable of doing its job? By Jeff Porter This week the Massachusetts Attorney General joined the Department of Justice in asking the First Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn...
08 Jun, 2021 Better Late than Never, Connecticut Finally Pulls the Plug on the Transfer Act By Jeff Porter Those of us who have had the (relative) pleasure of representing clients investigating and remediating contaminated properties under the...
09 Apr, 2021 When it comes to PFAS, can we handle the truth? By Jeff Porter One of the most famous scenes in one of my favorite movies, A Few Good Men, is when Colonel Jessup tells Lieutenant Kaffee that he "can't...
09 Mar, 2021 PFAS, PFAS Everywhere. What's next? By Jeff Porter Researchers at Harvard University have apparently confirmed what many already knew -- the "forever chemicals" known as PFAS are...