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Attorney General Mike DeWine should be commended for putting together a comprehensive manual regarding legal issues, resources and incentives available to assist with economic development. The manual is called the 2015 Ohio Economic Development Manual.
The Attorney General collaborated with a number of state agencies and local economic development organizations in putting together…
The Ohio EPA enforcement process can appear to be a mystery, especially to companies that find themselves the subject of an EPA visit for the first time. This post provides a general overview of the Ohio EPA civil enforcement process.
Step 1: The Inspection
The enforcement process starts with the inspection. The inspections can be announced…
A recent court case calls into question Ohio EPA’s legal authority to recover certain costs related to investigation and clean up of contaminated sites. The case also raises questions about Ohio EPA’s long standing practice to negotiate administrative settlements of enforcement actions.
On January 18, 2012, the First District Court of Appeals in Hamilton County issued…
The latest developments in the saga involving current hearing process in the Ohio Environmental Review Appeals Commission (ERAC) shows chaos rains for the hundreds of appeals pending before the Commission. As previously covered on this blog (see, A Dozen Companies File Constitutional Challenges to 1-hour Hearings), in response to legislative deadlines imposed on the…
The Ohio General Assembly included in the state budget a series of deadlines for issuing decisions in environmental appeals. (See prior post) The deadlines apply to the Environmental Review Appeals Commission (ERAC) which hears administrative appeals for hundreds of Ohio EPA and other state Agency actions. Here are the deadlines imposed on ERAC:
The commission (ERAC) shall
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