The RCRA Practice Manual


Book Description

The RCRA Practice Manual, Second Edition, is a comprehensive yet easy-to-use guide to an extraordinarily complex area of environmental law. This practice-oriented book focuses on the cradle-to-grave program for managing hazardous wastes under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). The RCRA program regulates the handling of these wastes by generators, transporters and treatment, storage and disposal facilities, and regulates a large segment of industry involved in manufacturing. The chapters in this updated edition of The RCRA Practice Manual are written by an impressive roster of environmental lawyers who practice extensively in this area. The guide clearly explains this dynamic law, its background, regulatory structure and procedures, and the implications RCRA has for your client or company. The authors offer practical suggestions and guidance that are essential to minimize the risk of penalty and to soften the blow when liability cannot be avoided. numerous judicial and regulatory developments since the first edition, including issues such as EPA over-filing, imminent and substantial endangerment, citizen suits, and recent EPA determinations, draft and final guidances, amendments, and reform programs.




The RCRA Practice Manual


Book Description

Focusing on the "cradle-to-grave" program for managing hazardous wastes under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), this updated edition of The RCRA Practice Manual is a comprehensive yet easy-to-use guide to an extraordinarily complex area of environmental law. This manual clearly explains this dynamic law, its background, regulatory structure and procedures, and the implications RCRA has for your client or company.Chapters are written by an impressive roster of environmental lawyers who practice extensively in this area, and the authors offer practical suggestions and guidance to minimize the risk of penalty and to soften the blow when liability cannot be avoided. There have been numerous developments since the second edition, and every chapter has been updated to address the important new interpretations of RCRA. Among the new developments covered are decisions in cases involving the definition of hazardous waste, EPA over-filing, citizen suits, cost recovery, and preemption, while the regulatory developments include the EPA's revised definition of solid waste under RCRA and the Sierra Club's challenge, and the 2012 Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act.The RCRA Practice Manual provides a practical examination of these critical aspects of the program: An overview of RCRA and its relationship to other lawsThe scope of hazardous wasteGenerators and transportersTreatment, storage, and disposalLand disposal and corrective actionUnderground storage tanks and nonhazardous wasteEnforcement and implementation










Environmental Law Practice


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Adopted at dozens of law schools, this book is a valuable resource for imparting practical skills. Authors Anderson, Hirsch, Sachs, and Tormey have drawn on their wide experience as environmental law professors and practitioners to develop realistic exercises that teach the craft of environmental lawyering. Readers will learn how to bring a federal enforcement action against a polluter; negotiate a Superfund settlement; prepare documents and strategy for a citizen's suit; counsel a corporation on environmental compliance; navigate the issues that arise in government agency litigation (e.g., limits on discovery, standards of review); comment on EPA rule making; and handle environmental issues that arise in permitting a complex real estate development, as well as many other relevant skills. Updated and expanded, the fourth edition of Environmental Law Practice is comprehensive in scope. It contains problems and exercises under each of the major environmental statutes. In addition, it places readers in the three key roles played by environmental lawyers--government attorney, corporate counsel, and public interest advocate--and provides practice pointers for each of these types of work. The book makes extensive use of original documents such as statutes, the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), regulatory preambles, and agency guidance, exposing students to the materials that environmental lawyers use most. This book covers the most significant areas of environmental practice: compliance, enforcement, litigation, permitting, and policy. It gives in-depth treatment of substantive environmental law areas such as the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, CERCLA, RCRA, EPCRA, NEPA, and citizen suits. It incorporates current developments in environmental law, such as recent Supreme Court and circuit court cases. Of the many books on environmental law, Environmental Law Practice is the one to use to develop the skills to become a practice-ready environmental attorney.




A Practical Guide to Understanding, Managing, and Reviewing Environmental Risk Assessment Reports


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A Practical Guide to Understanding, Managing and Reviewing Environmental Risk Assessment Reports provides team leaders and team members with a strategy for developing the elements of risk assessment into a readable and beneficial report. The authors believe that successful management of the risk assessment team is a key factor is quality repor







Bankruptcy Litigation Manual, 2012-2013 Edition


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Every step in the business bankruptcy litigation process is covered inAspen Publishers' Bankruptcy Litigation Manual, from thedrafting of the first pleadings through the appellate process. In fact, bymaking the Bankruptcy Litigation Manual a part of your workinglibrary, you not only get detailed coverage of virtually all the topics andissues you must consider in any bankruptcy case, you also getfield-tested answers to questions you confront every day, such as:How to stay continuing litigation against a corporate debtor's non-debtorofficers?What are the limits on suing a bankruptcy trustee?Is the Deprizio Doctrine still alive?Does an individual debtor have an absolute right to convert a case fromChapter 7 to Chapter 13?What prohibitions exist on cross-collateralization in financing disputes?Are option contracts "executory" for bankruptcy purposes?When, and under what circumstances, may a bankruptcy court enjoin anadministrative proceeding against a Chapter 11 debtor?What are the current standards for administrative priority claims?When must a creditor assert its setoff rights?When can a remand order issued by a district court be reviewed by a court ofappeals?What are the limits on challenging pre- bankruptcy real propertymortgage foreclosures as fraudulent transfers?Can an unsecured lender recover contract-based legal fees incurred in post-bankruptcy litigation on issues of bankruptcy law ?Is there a uniform federal limitation on perfecting security interests thatprimes a longer applicable state law period, thus subjecting lenders to apreference attack?Do prior bankruptcy court orders bar a plaintiff's later state courtsuit and warrant removal of the action in federal court?Michael L. Cook, a partner at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP in New York andformer long-time Adjunct Professor at New York University School of Law, hasgathered together some of the country's top bankruptcy litigators tocontribute to Bankruptcy Litigation Manual.Contributing Authors:Jay Alix, Southfield, MINeal Batson, Alston & Bird, LLP, Atlanta, GAKenneth K. Bezozo, Haynes and Boone, New York, NYSusan Block-Lieb, Fordham University School of Law, Newark, NJPeter W. Clapp, Valle Makoff, LLP, San Francisco, CADennis J. Connolly, Alston & Bird, LLP, Atlanta, GADavid N. Crapo, Gibbons P.C., Newark, NJKaren A. Giannelli, Gibbons P.C., Newark, NJDavid M. Hillman, Schulte Roth & Zabel, LLP, New York, NYAlfred S. Lurey, Kilpatrick & Stockton, Atlanta, GAGerald Munitz, Butler Rubin, Salterelli & Boyd, LLP, Chicago, ILRobert L. Ordin, Retired Bankruptcy Court JudgeStephen M. Pezanosky, Haynes and Boone, LLP, Partner and Chair of BankruptcySection, Fort Worth, TXRobin E. Phelan, Haynes and Boone, LLP Dallas, TXDaniel H. Squire, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP, Washington, DCMichael L. Temin, Fox Rothschild, LLP, Philadelphia, PASheldon S. Toll, Law Office ofSheldon S. Toll, Southfield, MIJason H. Watson, Alston & Bird, LLP, Atlanta, GAKit Weitnauer, Alston & Bird, LLP, Atlanta, GAWritten by Mr. Cook and nineteen other experts, Bankruptcy LitigationManual provides authoritative, up-to-date information on virtuallyevery aspect of the bankruptcy litigation process, from discovery throughappeal.