March 1, 2006

New York Environmental Law: Year in Review 2006

Co-Sponsored by the Environmental Law Institute
and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York

Back by popular demand, on March 1, 2006 the Environmental Law Institute (Washington, DC) and the Environmental Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York hosted the annual review of the year’s most significant NY judicial, regulatory, and administrative developments by leading practitioners and professors of environmental law.

Ppanelists Scott N. Fein (Whiteman Osterman & Hanna), James Ferreira (General Counsel, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation), Michael B. Gerrard (Arnold & Porter), and Philip Weinberg (St. John’s University School of Law), covered the past year’s important developments in NY law and highlight emerging developments in eminent domain, greenhouse gas control, SEQRA, pollution control, hazardous waste and oil spill liability, brownfield redevelopment, and land use planning.