Law360's Brownfields Policy Tracker

January 21st, 2025, 9:50PM

Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Navy and a Tetra Tech unit have reached two settlements amounting to $97 million, resolving claims the subsidiary billed the Navy for radiation remediation services at a former Navy shipyard in San Francisco that it did not actually perform.

January 15th, 2025, 5:57PM

Nate Beck

Connecticut regulators have finalized a set of new rules to catch environmental contamination that will replace a system of mandatory inspections on commercial and industrial property transfers, leaving New Jersey as the only U.S. state with such a policy.

January 8th, 2025, 7:17PM

Grace Dixon

Affiliates of The Domain Cos. have secured a $218 million loan for a mixed-use, mixed-income multifamily project in the Bronx borough of New York City, with financing provided by Freddie Mac via JLL Real Estate Capital.

January 7th, 2025, 5:18PM

Julie Manganis

The developer of a 3.5-acre luxury condo and apartment complex in Boston's Seaport District is accusing the state of improperly second-guessing the work of its licensed environmental remediation consultant to deny a $15.3 million brownfields tax credit, then dragging its feet on an administrative appeal.

September 24th, 2024, 5:47PM

Crystal Owens

A property development group will pay more than $1.4 million to fund a permanent stewardship as part of an agreement with the state of Washington, the federal government and a slew of tribes to resolve allegations that it released hazardous substances into Port Gamble Bay near Seattle for more than a century.

September 19th, 2024, 6:03PM

Nate Beck

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency told a Washington, D.C., federal judge that it had no duty to regulate PFAS compounds that a group of farmers claimed were contained in agency-approved biosolid sludge spread on farmland as fertilizer.

September 5th, 2024, 5:00PM

Michael Nunes

New Jersey will bolster its tax credits for its brownfields redevelopment incentive program and grant tax credits to solar energy projects built on closed landfills as part of a bill signed by Gov. Phil Murphy.

September 5th, 2024, 10:42AM

George Woolston

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday a $151.1 million deal to cover the federal agency's past and future costs of cleanup at a New Jersey superfund site with high levels of lead contamination.

August 21st, 2024, 6:43PM

Though the IRS has published guidance regarding the Inflation Reduction Act's 10% adder for tax credits generated by renewable energy projects constructed on brownfield sites, considerable guesswork remains as potential implications seem contrary to IRS intentions, say Megan Caldwell and Jon Micah Goeller at Husch Blackwell.

August 13th, 2024, 6:09PM

Isaac Monterose

Howard Hughes Corp. has purchased $40 million worth of air rights from New York City for two Manhattan properties in a deal guided by Fried Frank, as the real estate company presses forward with the redevelopment of a Seaport lot.

August 6th, 2024, 3:25PM

Christine DeRosa

A team of five environmental attorneys have joined Verrill Dana LLP in Boston from Burns & Levinson LLP, continuing the exodus of attorneys from the Boston-based firm.

August 2nd, 2024, 6:11PM

Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

International Paper Co. and Weyerhaeuser Co. on Thursday asked the Sixth Circuit to reverse a Michigan federal judge who found that they can be sued for future cleanup costs of a Michigan Superfund site.

July 30th, 2024, 3:46PM

Andrea Keckley

The leader of Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC's environmental law group, a veteran practitioner with a varied history in both public and private roles, will serve as its co-chair, the New Jersey firm announced Tuesday.

July 22nd, 2024, 9:16PM

Tom Lotshaw

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it's steering $4.3 billion in grant funding to 25 projects that promise to help curb greenhouse gas pollution, advance environmental justice and transition the country to clean power.

July 17th, 2024, 2:43PM

Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

New Mexico is expanding its lawsuit against the federal government over costs related to cleaning up forever chemicals near military sites by utilizing a new rule listing the substances as hazardous under the Superfund law.

July 8th, 2024, 12:04PM

Lynn LaRowe

Bracewell LLP announced Monday that it has boosted its energy regulatory group with a partner in Houston who came aboard from Baker Botts LLP.

July 2nd, 2024, 4:07PM

Emma Kennedy

A Law360 Real Estate Authority analysis of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's brownfield grant awards since the program's inception shows a steep increase in funding, particularly in funding of cleanups, since the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law was passed in 2021. 

July 1st, 2024, 7:25PM

Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency revealed Monday it has initiated cleanup work on the middle portion of the Gowanus Canal Superfund site in Brooklyn, New York, while the agency works to complete dredging and capping activities in the upper portion later this month.

June 26th, 2024, 6:44PM

Grace Dixon

Thousands of sites contaminated by WWII, oil and gas exploration and mining were transferred to Alaska Native ownership in a 1971 deal settling land claims in the state. Now, an influx of funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and other sources has seriously boosted cleanup work.

June 25th, 2024, 9:55PM

Ryan Harroff

The Fourth Circuit revived claims Tuesday against six companies that arranged the disposal of hazardous waste in the 68th Street dump site in Baltimore County, Maryland, ruling that a lower court was wrong to say the companies needed to know that the waste was hazardous to be liable for cleanup costs.