Rhode Island Bar Journal, November/December 2008 Bowing to budgetary constraints, the 2008 session of the Rhode Island General Assembly effectively terminated the Rhode Island Historic Tax Credit Program for all…
Published in Providence Business News (5/12 - 5/18/08) As Federal and State officials sift through the ashes of the subprime mortgage collapse, there is understandably a lot of finger-pointing going…
Published in Providence Business News (July 11-17, 2005) To see the dramatic impact of junk science on public policy, look no further than the public smoking ban imposed by a…
Providence Business News (February 28- March 6, 2005) Recent news reports suggest Rhode Island may be rethinking its business development incentives spurred in part by a Federal Appeals Court decision…
Environmental Transactions and Brownfields Committee Newsletter - March 2005 The imposition of institutional controls on significant acreage which is only a part of the burdened owner's property often results in…
Published in New England's Environment (May/June 2004) In 1998, the conference of New England Governors and the Eastern Canadian Premiers Committee established a plan to eliminate mercury emissions throughout the…
Published in New England's Environment (January/February 2004) The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management ("DEM") Office of Air Resources had recently proposed amendments to the state regulations governing air toxics…
Published in New England's Environment (January/February 2004) The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management ("DEM") Office of Air Resources had recently proposed amendments to the state regulations governing air toxics…
Published in Providence Business News (December 1-7, 2003) "If you build it, they will come."While this sentiment from Field of Dreams may not translate into an affordable model for state…
Published in Providence Business News (July 19-25, 1999) That thud you may have heard coming out of Washington earlier this year was the Environmental Protection Agency taking it on the…