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FLORENCE – A sprawling Superfund site here will get clean-up funds from the nation’s new infrastructure law, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The former Roebling Steel Co. complex, which occupied a heavily polluted site along the Delaware River, is one of seven ‘backlogged’ sites in New Jersey to get Superfund money from the law. The EPA also will direct infrastructure m...

An Elmira photographer who feared she would be punished for refusing to shoot same-sex weddings due to her religious beliefs has lost a legal challenge to New York's anti-discrimination laws. With assistance from the Alliance Defending Freedom, photographer Emilee Carpenter earlier this year filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court claiming the requirement — if she photographs weddings between...

When the Gender Recognition Act (“GRA”) finally goes into full effect on Tuesday in New York State, people seeking name changes — including, and especially, transgender and non-binary individuals — will find revisions to civil procedures that will remove longstanding barriers to equality in a manner that respects and protects petitioners’ privacy and right to self-identity and self-expression...

Base decisions about sex offender registries on research, not emotion. Facts, not emotion This excellent column is based on research that many in political positions choose to ignore and continue to pass laws based on myths. The column referred to the recent meta-analysis of 25 years of findings that included 474,640 formerly incarcerated individuals for sex crimes. The study looked at the ef...

Peninsula Daily News PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson County commissioners have extended the temporary housing facilities law for another six months, with some modifications, to allow staff to conduct more public outreach and develop a draft permanent plan. The draft permanent plan is expected to be given to the county planning commission to consider in late February or early March with a draft ord...

GREELEY, CO – JANUARY 28:The Colorado State Patrol Troop 3A headquarters in Greeley Jan. 28, 2021. (Alex McIntyre/Staff Photographer) In an effort to ensure safe roads while people travel for the upcoming holidays, the Colorado Department of Transportation, Colorado State Patrol and local law enforcement agencies are teaming up to increase DUI enforcement to prevent impaired driving, accordin...

On 16 November 2021, the Ukrainian Parliament supported in the first reading the energy storage Draft Law No. 5436-d (the Energy Storage Draft Law). The Energy Storage Draft Law conveys general regulatory rules concerning construction and operations of energy storage facilities in the free market environment. The Draft Law does not deal with the incentives for investment in the energy storage...

SEC Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw spoke to the "existential threat" climate change poses to the capital markets, and the need for "decision-useful metrics" to monitor and measure corporate commitments to net-zero emissions. In remarks before the Center for American Progress and Sierra Club, Ms. Crenshaw commended the many public companies committed to net-zero emissions. She asserted that...

The Massachusetts State House in Boston BOSTON — As a legislative commission works toward recommendations to regulate government use of facial recognition technology in Massachusetts, more than 20 departments that submitted information to the panel say they are currently using the technology in some capacity or plan to bring it online in the future. The commission, created as part of the...

Cooley still has no office return date set Mintz Levin walks back Jan. 4 return to office Lawyers and staff at Cooley LLP and Mintz Levin can continue working remotely, the firms said Monday, as concerns grow about another wave of Covid-19 cases in New York and other major cities. Cooley, which was among the first to tell employees in July that they would not be required to return to office...