New York City - the city that never sleeps! At least, that's the case for the drivers working for the City's 90 private carters, those who travel long, overlapping, and sometimes unsafe routes to service the City's 100,000 commercial businesses. The commercial waste...
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NYS Water Quality Council Drinking Water Level Recommendations for Emerging Contaminants
You might get a sense of déjà vu because we're back with another blog post on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). As it should be apparent from the focus of our recent blog posts, a lot has been going on lately with these emerging contaminants in New York and...
NYS Law Requires Online Posting of Emerging Contaminant Info
New York is notoriously proud of its tap water. But what happens when chemicals are discovered in the water that threaten its public health? This is precisely the problem Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has faced since scientists used new analytical capabilities to detect...
5.5 Things to Know About Subsurface Environmental Investigations (Phase II ESAs) – Part 2 of 2
In our last post, we began to review the basic considerations for a Phase II ESA. We wanted you to have a chance to absorb a lot of complicated information. So we saved some of the good points: here are the rest of the 5.5 things you should know about Phase II ESAs....
5.5 Things to Know About Subsurface Environmental Investigations (Phase II ESAs) – Part 1 of 2
You're the prospective purchaser of commercial real estate, in contract. Your environmental lawyer (or environmental engineer or consultant) tells you "we should perform a Phase II Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) based on the recognized environmental conditions...
Proposed Amendment to New York’s Low Emission Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Standards
While the current Administration in Washington is taking steps to roll back environmental progress, for example, by weakening greenhouse gas (GHG) emission rules, by abandoning more stringent emissions standards on passenger automobiles, and by permitting energy...
Third Circuit CERCLA Case Highlights Perils Of Bargain Hunting For Contaminated Land
How could contaminated land possibly be anything but a bargain? Really! Even though the price tag may seem cheap, the costs of environmental cleanup may greatly exceed the savings on the purchase price and make what seemed a good bargain a very bad one indeed. It all...
DEC to Address Impacts of Mulching/Composting Facilities on Long Island
Mulching and composting are environmentally positive activities, right? Well, yes, in general. But recent reports released from the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and Suffolk County Department of Health Services show potential groundwater impacts from...
5 Things You Should Know About Phase I Environmental Site Assessments
As a real estate purchaser, developer, or seller, you may wonder: "Do I really need a Phase I environmental site assessments (ESA) before purchasing property?" The answer is simple: yes! As we explain on this page, a Phase I ESA looks into the history of a property....
NYC Digs Up New Solutions to Polluted Soil
Clean Soil: A Poem A fist of soil, by any other name would still be dirt. But dirty soil can be, might be clean soil, if given a chance to do so. First the obvious: we all know that soil is inherently dirty (it is dirt after all!). But not all soil is created equal....