In preparing to give a seminar on environmental issues in real estate and business transactions at the upcoming Rhode Island Bar Association Annual Meeting, I decided I had to…
Some time ago I was walking a development project with the chief surveyor for a large engineering company, showing him the unit boundaries I wanted established for a client’s…
In the best of times, it’s hard to find anyone saying anything good about cesspools. And this is hardly the best of times for cesspools. Not Much Good To Say…
The Cape Wind project to construct 130 wind turbines in Nantucket Sound was recently approved by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Salazar over the objections of two Native American…
The Director of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management has statutory authority to review the decisions of DEM Administrative Adjudication hearing officers pertaining to violations or licenses. (See R.I.Gen. Laws…
Whether or not one agrees with Interior Secretary Salazar’s decision this week to remove the last federal regulatory barrier to the permitting of the Cape Wind Project, there should be…
Given that Rhode Island is the Ocean State, and recreational fishing is extremely popular, I have been following the concern of recreational anglers that a Presidential Task Force may…
Prospective purchasers and owners of investment rental property, including condominium developers renting units they can’t sell, may not often think of minimum housing standards, but perhaps they should. Rhode…
If you think owning or buying a gasoline service station is easy, think again. Consider this conundrum. You are projecting capital expenses and you know that your single-walled tanks must…
In a recent talk to a regional conference of planners held in Connecticut, that is how I described a trial court’s findings that a coastal permitting agency failed to…