The Real Estate & Environmental Law Blog

David Gabor is a shareholder at Weintraub Tobin. He is a trial lawyer and represents production companies, infomercial companies, direct response companies and multi-level marketing organizations...

https://www.therealestatelawblog.com/2014/04/17/regulation-creep-in-the-nanny-state-the-proposed-not-s0-safe-harbor-enactment-in-proposition-65-advertising-regulations/

Professor Michael L. Marlow of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo recently published a preview of his paper on cancer rates and Proposition 65 entitled, “Too Much (Questionable) Information?” See Wall ...

https://www.therealestatelawblog.com/2014/01/23/proposition-65-twenty-seven-years-later-and-still-no-observable-effect/

As we discussed in our prior blog the new ASTM standard E1527-13 had been promulgated and that industry was critical of EPA for accepting both standards, despite the fact that E1527-13 was expre...

https://www.therealestatelawblog.com/2014/01/10/epa-publishes-final-environmental-site-assessment-rule-accepting-astm-e1527-13-as-superceding-existing-astm-e1527-05/

The comment period on the proposed FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) rules on produce safety and preventive controls for human food, originally published in January 2013, was recently cl...

https://www.therealestatelawblog.com/2013/12/19/fda-announces-that-it-will-revise-produce-safety-and-preventive-controls-for-human-food-in-response-to-farmers-significant-comments/

WHY YOU NEED TO ENGAGE IN DUE DILIGENCE PRE-ACQUISITION Prior to purchasing or leasing property, it is necessary in most instances to engage in at least a screening environmental review.  The pu...

https://www.therealestatelawblog.com/2013/12/13/new-astm-standards-for-due-diligence-and-why-you-should-be-aware-of-them/

The Department of Toxic Substances Control has released a revised ver­sion of its Preliminary Endanger­ment Assessment (PEA) Guidance Manual.  The manual is used to perform an initial evaluati...

https://www.therealestatelawblog.com/2013/12/05/812/

As of October 1, 2013,  the California Green Chemistry Law and its regulations are officially part of the landscape . The California legislature passed the Green Chemistry Law in 2008, which aut...

https://www.therealestatelawblog.com/2013/10/07/california-green-chemistry-goes-into-effect/

Western States Dairy Producers Trade Association is sponsoring the 2013 Western Dairy Air Quality Symposium in Boise on April 16-17. The purpose of this symposium is to have a round- table exchan...

https://www.therealestatelawblog.com/2013/03/22/weintraub-tobin-to-help-sponsor-western-air-quality/

The California Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Francisco Region, has recently updated the May 2008 version of the Environmental Screening Levels (ESLs). ESLs are NOT intended to serve a...

https://www.therealestatelawblog.com/2013/02/21/environmental-screening-levels-bay-area-2013/

California Air Resources Control Board released the Cap and Trade auction results. They can be found here:http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/capandtrade/auction/november_2012/auction1_results_2012q4nov.pdf...

https://www.therealestatelawblog.com/2012/11/19/california-cap-and-trade-auction-results-released/