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Commercial Property Owners Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

Implications of PFAS CERCLA liability for the commercial real estate industry

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What do you get when you combine a strict liability statute that could apply to every commercial property and a “forever chemical” that could exist almost everywhere? Designation of Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) and...more

Allen Matkins

Single ASTM Standard For Phase I ESAs For Commercial and Industrial Properties - 2024 Land Use, Environmental & Natural Resources...

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Effective February 13, 2024, prospective purchasers and ground tenants of commercial and industrial property seeking liability protections under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act...more

Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP

EPA Publishes Final Rule on Conducting Phase I Environmental Site Assessments

What You Need to Know- CERCLA requires prospective purchasers to conduct an “all appropriate inquiry” into the environmental conditions of a property to qualify for potential defenses to CERCLA liability. Typically, an...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

What Real Estate Buyers and Sellers Need to Know About an Upcoming Environmental Standard

​​​​​​​After the real estate boom in the Southeast over the past few years, there are fewer and fewer examples of clean and pristine land available for commercial or industrial use. That means more properties at risk for...more

UB Greensfelder LLP

[Webinar] The New Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Standard and Solving Environmental Problems during Real Estate...

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Join Ulmer for a Live Webinar on the New Phase I ESA Standard and Solving Environmental Problems During Real Estate Transactions - The American Society for Testing Materials (ASTM) released an update last November to the...more

Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP

An Update On Pending Revisions To The Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Standard

ASTM International is required to review and either update or renew the existing version of its ASTM E1527 Phase I Environmental Site Assessment standard (Phase I ESA standard) every eight years. Since the current version...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Recent BUILD Act “Builds” on Existing Brownfields Program through Additional Liability Protection and Redevelopment Incentives

Despite last minute veto threats from the White House, the bipartisan Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018 was signed into law earlier this year. Buried deep in this massive omnibus spending bill is a major win for...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Buyers Must Soon Comply With New Environmental Due Diligence Standard

Purchasers of commercial real estate must meet a new standard to qualify for liability protection under the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) and analogous state laws. Since...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

Tenant Who Sublets A Superfund Site Is Not Likely To Be A CERCLA Liable Party

It is generally the rule that a lessee who does not operate the property it rents will not be liable under CERCLA except in the unusual circumstance where the lessee qualifies as an “owner” of the property. Typically, this...more

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