Green Law

MONTGOMERY, AL--Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C. has filed a class action lawsuit (10-cv-243) on behalf of Alabama restaurant owners along the Alabama Gulf Coast for losses resulting from the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Many of these businesses receive substantial income from tourists, vacationers and commercial and sports fishermen.

NEWARK, NJ-- Members of The Coalition for Responsible Transportation (CRT) joined the leadership of the Port of New York and New Jersey at a press conference to announce CRT's strong support for the Port's adoption of an aggressive emission reduction program requiring the retirement of high-polluting trucks serving Port facilities.

WASHINGTON--The international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has launched "e2," an environmental and energy law blog that offers insights and analysis of new environmental and energy legislation, regulations, cases, policies and trends, with a focus on relevant business opportunities and risks.

TRENTON, NJ--Several New Jersey environmental organizations have announced their opposition to a series of "smart growth" proposals scheduled to come before the Legislature this fall, including a bill that would restructure New Jersey's Planning Commission.

NEWARK, NJ – A certain inconvenient truth about the trend toward green building—that it will neither fade like a bad dream nor match the utopian visions of its most ardent advocates—is good news for the United States, according to veteran environmental attorney James A. Kosch, a shareholder in LeClairRyan’s Newark-based Tort Defense Group.

JACKSONVILLE, MD--Two senior professionals of Whitman were instrumental in helping a group of residents of northern Baltimore County, MD, recoup $150 million in compensatory damages from a gasoline leak that occurred at a nearby Exxon Mobil Corp. gas station in 2006.

OSLO-- Governments must do a better job of explaining environmental taxes such as charges on driving in cities or higher electricity bills or risk a public backlash, a study showed on Friday.<!--break-->