by Karl Coplan | Jan 9, 2012 | Uncategorized
The transcript from today’s SCOTUS argument in Sackett v. EPA is out. Sackett is a landowner challenging an EPA CWA § 309 Administrative Compliance Order that directed him to cease wetlands fill activities and restore wetlands on his lot, where he was building...
by Karl Coplan | Jan 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
Reading between the lines of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s State of the State address on Wednesday, 2012 may be a year of project related environmental battlegrounds in New York. Governor Cuomo reiterated his support for a fast-tracked replacement project for the...
by Karl Coplan | Dec 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
Details are still sketchy, but last week’s Durban COP-17 meeting appears to have resulted in a “road map” for negotiations that would lead to a binding “legal framework” for emissions reductions — to be negotiated by the December...
by Karl Coplan | Dec 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
At the risk of offending colleagues I deeply respect and admire, I do have one thought for the day: A four-wheel drive Lincoln Navigator is probably the ultimate American rugged-individualist, anti-environmentalist status symbol. Driving one for the typical 15,000...
by Karl Coplan | Nov 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
According to a complaint filed today by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the Bureau of Land Management set out to perform a comprehensive assessment of environmental impacts of its activities . . . but purposefully omitted any consideration of...
