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		<title>Court Invalidates New York State Permit for Municipalities’ Stormwater Discharges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a significant blow to New York’s stormwater pollution control program, last month a state court invalidated the Clean Water Act general permit covering discharges from urban and suburban municipalities’ separate storm sewer systems. The January 10, 2012 decision from Judge Joan Lefkowitz of the Supreme Court, Westchester County held that the 2010 General Permit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sprlaw.com/2012/02/court-invalidates-new-york-state-permit-for-municipalities%e2%80%99-stormwater-discharges/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=court-invalidates-new-york-state-permit-for-municipalities%25e2%2580%2599-stormwater-discharges</link>
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		<title>DEC Proposes Power Plant Regulations for Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Environmental Justice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, DEC proposed  two new regulations affecting power plants in New York State.  Both implement provisions of the Power NY Act of 2011, and both apply to proposals to construct or modify power plants with the capacity to generate at least 25 megawatts. First, DEC proposed carbon dioxide emissions limits for new and expanded [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sprlaw.com/2012/01/dec-proposes-power-plant-regulations-for-carbon-dioxide-emissions-and-environmental-justice/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=dec-proposes-power-plant-regulations-for-carbon-dioxide-emissions-and-environmental-justice</link>
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		<title>Proposed Zoning Resolution Amendment to Expand New York City “E Designation” Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York City Department of City Planning (“DCP”) has proposed amendments to the New York City Zoning Resolution, expanding the environmental (E) designation program that identifies sites of potential environmental concern.  The Mayor’s Office of Environmental Remediation (“OER”), which administers the E designation program, is anticipated to publish draft rules to implement the proposed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York City adopts new stormwater performance standards for development projects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York City developers now have a new factor to consider in project design.  On January 4, 2012, the Department of Environmental Protection (“DEP”) adopted a new stormwater performance standard (the “performance standard”), requiring large and medium-scale development projects in combined sewer areas to incorporate larger detention basins or install relatively expensive green or blue [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sprlaw.com/2012/01/new-york-city-adopts-new-stormwater-performance-standards-for-development-projects/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=new-york-city-adopts-new-stormwater-performance-standards-for-development-projects</link>
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		<title>Daniel Riesel and Pamela Esterman to Chair Upcoming Environmental Law Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SPR principals Daniel Rieseland Pamela Esterman will serve as co-chairs of the upcoming 42nd annual Environmental Law Course of Study, to be held on February 1-3, 2012 in Washington, DC, co-sponsored by ALI-ABA and the Environmental Law Institute. The course features advanced-level presentations by a diverse faculty from government, universities, private practice and advocacy organizations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sprlaw.com/2012/01/daniel-riesel-and-pamela-esterman-to-chair-upcoming-environmental-law-conference-2/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=daniel-riesel-and-pamela-esterman-to-chair-upcoming-environmental-law-conference-2</link>
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		<title>EPA Releases Draft Study of Gowanus Canal Cleanup Options</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On January 3, 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) released its Draft Feasibility Study for the Gowanus Canal, proposing a series of options for remediating the 1.8-mile long Brooklyn Superfund site.  All of the remedial options, aside from a mandatory “no action” alternative, involve a combination of dredging the Canal’s sediment and reducing external sources [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sprlaw.com/2012/01/epa-releases-draft-study-of-gowanus-canal-cleanup-options/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=epa-releases-draft-study-of-gowanus-canal-cleanup-options</link>
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		<title>Power of Municipalities to Limit or Ban Hydrofracking Through Zoning Front and Center Before the Legislature, DEC, and the Courts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the controversy surrounding high-volume hydraulic fracturing, or “hydrofracking”, in New Yorkcontinues to swirl, the question of whether local government has the power to limit or ban hydrofracking through local zoning is emerging as one of the central and most fractious issues in the debate.  The New York State Assembly passed a bill in 2011 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sprlaw.com/2012/01/power-of-municipalities-to-limit-or-ban-hydrofracking-through-zoning-front-and-center-before-the-legislature-dec-and-the-courts/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=power-of-municipalities-to-limit-or-ban-hydrofracking-through-zoning-front-and-center-before-the-legislature-dec-and-the-courts</link>
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		<title>New York Court Rejects Challenge to DEC Endangered Species Regulations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a December 1, 2011 decision, the Supreme Court, Albany County, dismissed on procedural grounds two lawsuits challenging newly promulgated regulations by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) governing permits for projects that may affect species listed as endangered or threatened under State law (6 NYCRR Part 182).  Among other things, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sprlaw.com/2012/01/new-york-court-rejects-challenge-to-dec-endangered-species-regulations/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=new-york-court-rejects-challenge-to-dec-endangered-species-regulations</link>
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		<title>EPA Issues Final Rule on Emission of Mercury and Air Toxics from Power Plants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[EPA has announced the issuance of a final rule limiting emissions of mercury and other air toxics, including metals and acid gases, from coal- and oil-fired power plants.  The rule applies to new and existing power plants larger than 25 megawatts that burn coal or oil to produce electricity for sale through the national electric [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sprlaw.com/2011/12/epa-issues-final-rule-on-emission-of-mercury-and-air-toxics-from-power-plants/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=epa-issues-final-rule-on-emission-of-mercury-and-air-toxics-from-power-plants</link>
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		<title>Jennifer Coghlan Becomes SPR Partner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are very pleased to announce that Jennifer Coghlan has become an SPR Partner. Jennifer regularly works with landowners, developers, consultants and engineers to successfully guide development projects through environmental review processes under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) andNew York City’s Environmental Quality Review (CEQR).   She frequently [...]]]></description>
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