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07.18.2019
Click on the image below for a full PDF of the Environmental Newsletter.
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07.16.2019
In 2016, EPA published the long-anticipated Hazardous Waste Generator Improvement Rule (HWGIR) updating requirements for generators of hazardous waste. The HWGIR also clarifies EPA polices governing accumulation of hazardous waste in satellite accumulation...
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07.16.2019
Working with an environmental lawyer and an environmental consultant, often a hydrogeologist or an engineer, does not have to shorten your life span. Both professionals add value to a challenging environmental problem. The trick is to understand how to get...
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07.16.2019
A case currently pending before the United States Supreme Court may significantly impact legal rights of potentially responsible parties (PRPs) involved in the cleanup of Superfund Sites. The case was brought in Montana State Court by owners of properties...
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07.16.2019
In the ever-increasing effort to control nutrient (phosphorous and nitrogen) loads into the Chesapeake Bay watershed, Virginia and other Bay states are looking for additional means to ratchet down nutrient-laden stormwater discharges. Driven in large part by...
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07.15.2019
With the potential to positively impact almost 300,000 Indian nationals living in the U.S. who are waiting for green cards (and to a somewhat lesser extent, Chinese nationals who are also waiting for green cards), the U.S. House of Representatives passed the...
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07.12.2019
On July 10, 2019, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board designated as precedential Focal Therapeutics, Inc. v. Senorx, Inc., IPR2014-00116, Paper 19 (PTAB, July 21, 2014), which concerned the rules governing depositions in the context of an inter partes review...
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07.10.2019
On July 1, 2019, President Trump signed the Taxpayer First Act, H.R. 3151, into law.
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07.09.2019
On this episode of Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion, Brydon DeWitt is joined by special guest Beryl Ball, a senior vice president and financial advisor at CAPTRUST. Brydon and Beryl discuss some of the best practices for retirement plan committees.
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06.26.2019
On Friday, June 21, 2019, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in North Carolina Department of Revenue v. Kimberley Rice Kaestner 1992 Family Trust (http://src.bna.com/Jbo) that a state cannot tax a trust based only on a trust beneficiary’s residency...
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06.26.2019
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Federal law that allows the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) to reject words and symbols that are considered immoral or scandalous, on grounds that it violates the First Amendment. This is another...
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06.19.2019
On June 11, 2019, the IRS and U.S. Department of Treasury issued final regulations requiring taxpayers to reduce their charitable contribution deduction by the amount of any state or local tax credits received (or expected to be received) in return for the...
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06.19.2019
Today, EPA released the final Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule fulfilling the President’s promise to repeal the Obama EPA’s Clean Power Plan (CPP).
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06.17.2019
On June 10, 2019 the United States Supreme Court held in Return Mail, Inc. v. United States Postal Service, 587 U.S. ____ (2019) that agencies of the federal government cannot challenge the validity of a patent via USPTO post-issuance procedures implemented...
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06.17.2019
On May 27, 2019, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) announced it is considering amending 9 VAC 15-60, Small Renewable Energy Projects (Solar) Permit Regulation by Rule (the “PBR Regulations”).
