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06.05.2019
In recent weeks, NBC News meteorologist Dylan Dreyer shared her personal story about secondary infertility, Food Network star Katie Lee posted about her experience with in vitro fertilization on Instagram, and Bravo host and executive producer Andy Cohen...
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06.05.2019
If your company is planning to buy commercial or industrial real estate, it’s probably your standard practice to have a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (“Phase I”) performed. When you do so, it’s important to ensure the Phase I report you receive from...
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06.05.2019
At its April meeting, the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board (the “Board”) approved a final CO2 Cap and Trade Rule, (9 VAC 5-140-6045), (the “Rule”) to limit CO2 emissions from the power sector by a vote of 5-2. This outcome was expected. However, just...
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06.05.2019
EPA recently issued an interpretive statement (“Interpretive Statement”) setting forth its position on the Clean Water Act’s (“Act”) regulation of discharges to groundwater, offering much-needed clarity on an issue subject to significant debate.
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06.05.2019
There is no magic formula to prevent an industrial source from becoming the target of a costly third-party administrative or legal environmental challenge. These legal actions from environmental non-governmental entities (eNGO) may come in the form of...
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06.05.2019
EPA recently published a final rule restricting the manufacture, processing, and import of methylene chloride in the United States for consumer paint and coating removal. The rulemaking is a result of risk assessments completed under the Toxic Substance...
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06.05.2019
Certain pharmaceuticals are regulated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) as “hazardous waste” when they are discarded. EPA recently finalized new management standards for hazardous waste pharmaceuticals from health care facilities and “...
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06.05.2019
In early April 2019, Virginia released its draft Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan (“Draft Plan”) to achieve compliance with EPA’s 2010 Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load Rule (“Bay TMDL”). The Bay TMDL sets allowable loadings of nutrients (...
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06.05.2019
The 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (“TSCA”) made numerous changes to TSCA, including increasing public transparency of chemical information. To accomplish this, the amendments required EPA to establish a plan for reviewing all...
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06.05.2019
On June 3, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court held that an employee may be able to proceed with a federal discrimination lawsuit, even if the employee has not first filed a Charge of Discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”).
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06.05.2019
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05.31.2019
North Carolina’s largest city, Charlotte, could be the proposed site for North Carolina’s newest hospital.
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05.23.2019
The Virginia Department of Taxation issued guidelines for the new laws requiring remote sellers, marketplace sellers, and marketplace facilitators to register and collect Virginia sales and use taxes.
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05.20.2019
In Cochise Consultancy Inc. v. United States, ex rel. Hunt, the Supreme Court expanded the time in which False Claims Act (“FCA”) lawsuits may be filed by qui tam relators in which the government does not intervene.
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05.07.2019
In the brief time since the dawn of the internet, quickly followed by the introduction of smart phones, wireless service has become an essential utility. In the 1990s, cell towers were unwelcome new skyline fixtures benefitting a small but growing contingent...
