Supplemental environmental projects (SEPs) provide one means of addressing environmental violations in alignment with the Biden Administration’s comprehensive environmental justice (EJ) strategy. SEPs were explicitly endorsed...more
In an insightful recent JD Supra® article, Feltman-Frank and coauthors discuss the potential risks that companies face if they do not carefully consider the environmental justice (EJ) landscape within which they operate...more
Natural Resource Damage Assessments Tools and Applications -
Environmental justice is a major initiative of the Biden administration and various state governments, with a number of directives and programs to address fairness...more
In natural resource damage assessments (NRDAs), both injury to resources and the beneficial effects of restoration actions unfold over time, sometimes over periods spanning multiple generations. To make losses and gains...more
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Determining the amount of restoration needed to compensate the public for injury to natural resources is central to estimating natural resource damages (NRDs). Formal restoration scaling methods have not...more
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A recent article in Law360 by Bill Wichert, (“Hexcel Faces Pollution Suit Over NJ Manufacturing Site” (April 4, 2022) highlights the role that environmental justice plays in claims for natural resource damages (NRDs) filed by...more
January 27, 2022 was the one-year anniversary of President Biden’s announcing his Justice40 program as part of his approach to building environmental justice (EJ) broadly into decision-making. In December EPA announced it...more