Representative Presentations
- Minnesota Environmental Institute, April 11, 2019 – CERCLA/RCRA/MERLA Update – A review of 2018-2019 federal and state hazardous site cleanup policy developments and key judicial decisions
- Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy’s RegenerateMN: Brownfields, April 24, 2019 – A look at the legal aspects of redeveloping contaminated property
- MNCREW: Vapor Intrusion & Commercial Real Estate, April 17, 2019 – The use of environmental covenants and other institutional controls to address risks of vapor intrusion
- Minnesota Brownfields’ State of Brownfields Update, June 7, 2019 – The history and status of the St. Regis Superfund Site in Cass Lake, MN, from the City of Cass Lake perspective
- 2018 Minnesota Environmental Institute, April 12, 2018 – CERCLA/MERLA/RCRA – The process for cleaning up contaminated property has evolved dramatically since Congress passed the Superfund law in 1980, but many federal Superfund sites remain mired in dispute. This presentation reviewed recent federal and state policy and regulatory and judicial developments related to remediation of contaminated sites and to the handling of hazardous wastes.
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency National Brownfields Conference, December 6, 2017 – Dig It: Global Approaches to Contaminated Soil Re-Use
- Minnesota Brownfields’ January 23, 2018 Forum – Institutional Controls: Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know but Were Afraid to Ask
- TSCA, REACH & TSCA REFORM: A Comparison of Evolving Approaches to Chemical Regulation, Minnesota Environmental Institute, April 21, 2016, MinnCLE Center.
- Vapor Intrusion – Special Legal Considerations, Minnesota Brownfields Forum, December 11, 2014, Amherst H. Wilder Foundation.
Representative Publications
- 2018 Minnesota Environmental Institute, April 12, 2018 – CERCLA/MERLA/RCRA – The process for cleaning up contaminated property has evolved dramatically since Congress passed the Superfund law in 1980, but many federal Superfund sites remain mired in dispute. This publication reviewed recent federal and state policy and regulatory and judicial developments related to remediation of contaminated sites and to the handling of hazardous wastes.
- TSCA, REACH & TSCA REFORM: A Comparison of Evolving Approaches to Chemical Regulation, Minnesota Environmental Institute (April 2016).
- 2015 Environmental Due Diligence Update, American Bar Association Environmental Transactional and Brownfields Committee Annual Year-in-Review, available to ABA Environmental Section members at www.aba.net (January 2016).
- The Benefits of Brownfield Redevelopment in Minnesota: Fueling Economic Growth and Revitalizing Communities, Minnesota Brownfields, available at www.mnbrownfields.org (February 2011) (prepared in collaboration with Minnesota Brownfields interns Lindsey Knutson and Andrea Long, updated 2013 and 2015).