A few weeks back I was contacted by the Cleveland Council on World Affairs (CCWA) to meet with a small delegation of representatives from Serbia who were interested in learning about environmental regulations, specifically those that relate to solid waste and/or recycling. While I was to be interviewed by the delegation members, I think I
December 2009
EPA “Endangerment Finding” Sets in Motion Regulation of Greenhouse Gases
By Joseph Koncelik on
Posted in Climate Change
Today, a day that will likely live in environmental law infamy….the EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson finalized the "endangerment finding" in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in EPA v. Massachusetts which was issued way back in April 2, 2007. While the Supreme Court found that greenhouse gases were air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act, it…
Ohio Brownfield Tax Abatement Law Needs Improvement
By Joseph Koncelik on
Posted in Brownfields/Transactions
I was interviewed for a story on the local NPR station in Cleveland about a Northeast Ohio company that nearly went bankrupt because of confusion over Ohio’s brownfield tax abatement law. The title of the story was "How a Poorly Worded Tax Rule Nearly Bankrupted Ohio’s Oldest Company." Listen to the whole story by clicking…