Sandy’s Aftermath: A First Thought
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of Superstorm Sandy’s destruction of the Jersey Shore is that some people were taken by surprise. For decades, a central focus of coastal zone management and...
View ArticleSECOND THOUGHTS ON SUPER-STORM SANDY
A prior post by Michael Rodburg described New Jersey’s coastal regulatory programs, Sandy’s impact on that state and the policy choices it now must face. This alert will focus on Connecticut’s...
View ArticleDoin’ the Dunes: What Will They Cost?
How appropriate was the name “Sandy”, which hit the New Jersey shore, leaving in its wake a $30 billion cleanup/rebuild price tag. Climate change experts agree that such catastrophic storms will...
View ArticleA Blueprint for a Resilient New York City
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Special Initiative for Rebuilding and Resiliency recently promulgated a 438-page report titled “A Stronger, More Resilient New York” (the “Resiliency Report”) in the...
View ArticleDoin’ the Dunes: What Will They Cost ? – Part II
On June 13, 2013, I posted a blog regarding how to compensate New Jersey beach owners who have an easement condemned on their property to allow the Corps of Engineers to construct dunes. In the blog,...
View ArticleConnecticut Legislature Opens the Door to Increased Armoring of Coast
My prior post about the impacts of Storms Irene and Sandy on Connecticut noted some of the policy challenges presented in the storms’ aftermath for state government in Connecticut and elsewhere in the...
View ArticleAnother Disturbance In The Force: New Study Concludes That Co2 Injection In...
New rumblings are being heard regarding carbon sequestration. Proponents of the injection of substances into deep formations as a desirable method of waste disposal were shaken to learn that a study...
View ArticleDoin’ The Dunes: What Will They Cost? - Part III
On June 13, I posted the first blog, in what has now become a series, initially called “Doin’ The Dunes: What Will They Cost?”, exploring the way in which New Jersey’s three branches of government...
View ArticleClimate Change Litigation – Will Property Insurers Take the Lead?
Common law litigation seeking relief from petrochemical companies for causing climate change has been much touted but little successful.The insurance industry has been warning of huge coming losses due...
View ArticleCITY OF MARGATE, NEW JERSEY
As my three prior blogs have discussed (see parts I, II, and III), the State of New Jersey has responded to Hurricane Sandy’s devastation in 2012 by escalating its efforts to construct sand dunes on...
View ArticleDOIN’ THE DUNES – PART VI
As we left off, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that in obtaining easements to build dunes, the amount of compensation for the partial loss of ocean view would have to take into account a credit for...
View ArticleDoin the Dunes – Part VII
In my latest blog, I related that New Jersey Superior Court Judge Julio Mendez had taken under advisement the City of Margate’s request for an evidentiary hearing on the reasonableness of the state’s...
View ArticleDoin’ the Dunes – Part VIII
In my last blog, I summarized the substantive arguments made by the City of Margate’s attorneys in their countersuit against the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s eminent domain...
View ArticleDoin’ the Dunes – Part IX
Last month, while New Jersey Superior Court Judge Julio Mendez was considering Margate’s challenge to the authority of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (“DEP”) to condemn...
View ArticleDoin’ the Dunes – Final Installment
Last month when the Ocean County, NJ challenge to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s (“NJDEP”) authority to implement dunes for shore protection was dismissed, I wrote that the...
View ArticleDoin’ The Dunes – Signing Off
In April, I reported on Supreme Court Judge Julio Mendez’ 65-page Opinion upholding the authority of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (“NJDEP”) to construct dunes along the...
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