Buying a commercial or industrial property can be a great opportunity—but it can also be fraught with financial peril and regulatory risk if you don’t properly assess environmental liabilities. Join us for an in-depth...more
10/21/2024
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Buyers ,
Commercial Property Owners ,
Commercial Real Estate Contracts ,
Due Diligence ,
Environmental Liability ,
Environmental Site Assessment ,
Events ,
Real Estate Transactions ,
Risk Assessment ,
Risk Mitigation
The California Attorney General’s Office has turned its focus to PFAS, filing litigation that is likely to be one of the larger of the hundreds of PFAS-related lawsuits currently pending throughout the country. On November...more
11/22/2022
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Contamination ,
Equitable Relief ,
Failure To Warn ,
Fraudulent Transfers ,
Hazardous Substances ,
Manufacturer Liability ,
Negligence Per Se ,
PFAS ,
Public Nuisance ,
State Attorneys General ,
Strict Product Liability ,
Toxic Chemicals ,
Unlawful Practices
[co-authors: Erin Eastwood, Justin Fisch, and Lara McDonough]
Ocean plastic pollution is a growing challenge that has captured the attention and concern of governments, businesses, and the public alike. As images and...more
12/3/2020
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Environmental Policies ,
Inland Waterways ,
Plastics ,
Producers ,
Recycling ,
Rivers ,
Toxic Chemicals ,
Waste Management ,
Wastewater ,
Water Pollution
Earlier this week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized the “Clean Water Act Section 401 Certification Rule” (Rule). The Rule comes with significant procedural and substantive changes to the certification...more
The increasing mandates and incentives for the rapid deployment of energy storage are resulting in a boom in the deployment of utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS). In the first installment of our series...more
6/1/2020
/ Batteries ,
Bureau of Land Management ,
CEQA ,
CPUC ,
Electricity ,
Energy Projects ,
Energy Sector ,
Energy Storage ,
Land-Use Permits ,
Local Ordinance ,
NEPA ,
Renewable Energy
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in widespread disruption of business and industry across California, including the state’s vibrant renewable energy and energy storage industry. Farella Braun + Martel attorneys are tracking...more
4/27/2020
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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ,
Begun Construction Test ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Environmental Review ,
Financing ,
Five Percent Safe Harbor Test ,
Investment Tax Credits ,
Land-Use Permits ,
Mergers ,
Physical Work Test ,
Power Purchase Agreements ,
Production Tax Credit ,
Renewable Energy ,
Roundtable ,
Solar Energy
In this op-ed for pv magazine, David Lazerwitz and Linda Sobczynski of Farella Braun + Martel examine the levels of precaution necessary to ensure fire risk mitigation in project development.
Originally published in...more
11/21/2019
/ CEQA ,
Climate Change ,
Construction Project ,
County Planning Commissions ,
CPUC ,
Environmental Impact Report (EIR) ,
Environmental Review ,
Hazard Insurance ,
Housing Developers ,
Infrastructure ,
Office of Planning & Research (OPR) ,
PG&E ,
Public Agencies ,
Renewable Energy ,
Risk Assessment ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Surface Transportation ,
Transmission Grid ,
Urban Planning & Development ,
Wildfires ,
Zoning Maps
Wildfires pose an increasingly serious threat to the public and environment in California. So it should be no surprise that the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR) amended Appendix G of California Environmental...more
9/14/2019
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CEQA ,
Climate Change ,
Construction Project ,
Environmental Impact Report (EIR) ,
Governor Newsom ,
Housing Developers ,
Infrastructure ,
Real Estate Development ,
Renewable Energy ,
Risk Assessment ,
Risk Factors ,
Transportation Industry ,
Wildfires