2019 Early Hurricane Season Forecasts While early forecasts of 2019 Atlantic Basin hurricane activity are out, meteorologists caution us not to become complacent.  It only takes one hurricane making landfall in your area to make it an active season –… Continue Reading →

At the end of March, Glenn D. Rudebusch, Executive Vice President and Senior Policy Adviser for the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank penned a commentary describing how “the consequences of climate change are relevant for the Fed’s monetary and financial… Continue Reading →

On March 18, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed the Clean Storm-water and Flood Reduction Act into law (P.L. 2019, c. 42).  In brief, this law permits local governments to form a storm-water utility and assess a fee to support… Continue Reading →

Flood waters in the Midwest have not yet receded and the full human and economic consequences of flooding in Iowa, Wisconsin, Nebraska, South Dakota and Missouri are only beginning to emerge.  We do know that the areas around seven Superfund… Continue Reading →

Here are a few items that caught our attention this week: On the SEC’s additional material disclosure events: “Event 15” and “event 16” went into effect on February 27, 2019.  These additions address the growing use of private, or direct,… Continue Reading →

Remember the acid rain worries of the 1970’s? Reaction led to clean-up laws and regulations. A slew of tax-exempt pollution control bonds were sold so that coal-fired utilities could scrub their smokestacks before toxic smoke reached the environment. Remember Love… Continue Reading →