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NEGPA v. DEP: The SJC Upholds the Commonwealth’s Climate Change Mitigation Program
This article was first published in the Winter 2019 edition of the Boston Bar Journal. In a unanimous decision last September, the Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) upheld the Commonwealth’s latest…
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Interstate Water Dispute Nears Decision by Supreme Court
As our changing climate threatens to exacerbate drought conditions in parts of the country, disputes between states over rights to water are likely to become far more common, and to…
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MassDEP Finally Tackles Greenhouse Gas Emissions Under the Global Warming Solutions Act
In January 2016, the Supreme Judicial Court issued a strong climate change decision under Massachusetts’ 2008 Global Warming Solutions Act. The GWSA required the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection to…