The Silver Lining: Efficiencies in BIA’s Newly Effective Right-of-Way Regulations
…consideration and damages. If the grant specified the amount of compensation or a method for determining compensation, that information may be evidence of adequate compensation. BIA must provide notice to…
Bad News in the Latest UN Report on Climate Change
…anthropogenic sources in the next several decades. Temperatures of the last fifteen years are not that comforting. Climate change skeptics have focused on the fact that the rise of global…
31 Listed by Best Lawyers in America®
…below: Name Recognized Practice Area(s) Jennifer G. Anderson Commercial Litigation; Litigation-Health Care ____________________________________________________________________________________ Martha G. Brown Commercial Litigation; Product Liability Litigation-Defendants ____________________________________________________________________________________ Stuart R. Butzier Environmental Law; Litigation – Environmental;…
The Corps’ NWP 12 for Pipelines and Transmission Lines is Vacated and Enjoined
…contact Joan Drake at jdrake@modrall.com, Walter Stern at western@modrall.com, Stuart Butzier at sbutzier@modrall.com, Christina Sheehan at ccs@modrall.com, and Sarah Stevenson at sarah.stevenson@modrall.com. [1] NWPs are intended to be used…
Andrew Dasburg
An influential modernist and teacher, Andrew Dasburg became the mainstay of Taos’s non-traditionalists, or “moderns,” in the fifties and sixties. Working with the likes of Kenneth Adams, Howard Cook, Ward…
Federal District Court Upholds Uranium Mining Within a Traditional Cultural Property Without Further NEPA Review and With Abbreviated NHPA Consultation
…court also found that USFS had complied with subparagraph (b)(3), even though it did not send notice within 48 hours of being informed of the intent to reopen the mine,…
Balancing Opposing Cultural and Religious Beliefs on a Shared Reservation: Agency consideration of “Native American culture” not enough to demonstrate narrowly tailored compelling interest
…eagle take permit, limited to the areas outside the Reservation, violated one tribe’s First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion. Background: The Wind River Reservation (“Reservation”) has been…
Overview of the Twelve Objectives in New Mexico’s New Energy Plan
…power plants have on air quality in New Mexico communities). The Plan recommends encouraging those in the oil and gas industry to voluntarily test baseline groundwater around drilling sites. Moreover,…