The Supreme Court recently made it more difficult for the federal government to collect Superfund cleanup costs for sites owned by corporate subsidiaries. In an important decision in the era of Brownfields, when businesses are evaluating the possible liabilities for hazardous waste cleanup, the justices ...

Finding that the Army Corps of Engineers exceeded its authorization under the Clean Water Act (CWA), the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned the conviction of a developer found guilty of filling wetlands in Southern Maryland. In United States of America v. James ...

A new era in environmental law and urban revitalization is upon us – the movement to redevelop Brownfields, the name for abandoned or under used commercial and industrial sites where redevelopment is hampered by contamination, real or perceived. A series of recent efforts have greatly ...

A new era in both environmental regulation and urban revitalization came upon us in early 1997. That new era is the movement to redevelop Maryland’s Brownfields, the name for abandoned or under used commercial and industrial sites where redevelopment is hampered by contamination, whether real ...

A Maryland gas station whose underground storage tanks leaked onto an adjacent property will have to pay for the damages the trespass caused. In JBG/Twinbrook Metro Limited Partnership v. Bobby Joe Wheeler, et al., the Court of Appeals held that the doctrine of assumption of ...