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Details: Written by Gregor I. McGregor, Esq.; Published: 24 February 2021

There was no shortage of important 2020 developments in federal, state and local environmental law, despite Covid-19. This MCLE annual offering, co-chaired by firm founder Gregor McGregor, Esq. and former MassDEP counsel Pamela Harvey, Esq, features well-known speakers.

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Environmental Law

Details: Written by Gregor I. McGregor, Esq.; Published: 24 February 2021

The Firm’s newest PowerPoint updating wetlands and water law for those who are involved with applications, plans, permits and enforcement by Conservation Commissions is available to readers of this site. Gregor McGregor presented it to the Massachusetts Society of Municipal Conservation ...

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Environmental Litigation

Details: Written by Gregor I. McGregor, Esq.; Published: 05 February 2021

Three selected 2020 summary decisions of the Massachusetts Appeals Court illustrate, in short and sweet opinions, the implications of settlement negotiations by emails, tactical moves while challenging a local board’s decision, the ins and outs of getting permit extensions, what happens in court ...

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Real Estate Development

Details: Written by Gregor I. McGregor, Esq.; Published: 25 November 2020

In its August 10, 2020, decision in the case of Wellesley Conservation Council, Inc. v. Pereira (AC 19-P-753), the Massachusetts Appeals Court addressed the scope of enforcement options available to the holder of a Conservation Restriction (CR), in particular whether injunctive relief (like ...

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Zoning

Details: Written by Michael J. O'Neill, Esq.; Published: 12 August 2020

The decision of the Appeals Court in Henry W. Comstock, Jr., Trustee and another v. Zoning Board of Appeals of Gloucester and others, authored by Justice James Milkey, illustrates the strong protections afforded by G.L. c. 40 A, section 6 to owners of single- or two-family preexisting nonconforming ...

COVID-19 Guidance

What the Lifting of the COVID-19 State of Emergency in Massachusetts Will Mean for Boards and Commissions

What the Lifting of the COVID-19 State of Emergency in Massachusetts Will Mean for Boards and Commi
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Legislature Revises Local and Regional Permitting Deadlines as COVID-19 Pandemic Continues
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MassDEP and EPA Guidance on Waste Site Cleanups and Compliance during COVID-19 Emergency: Some Flexibility but Important Deadlines and On-Site Obligations Still Apply

MassDEP and EPA Guidance on Waste Site Cleanups and Compliance during COVID-19 Emergency: Some Flexi
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Governor Baker Revises State Permitting Deadlines and Extends Certain State Permits as COVID-19 Pandemic Continues

Governor Baker Revises State Permitting Deadlines and Extends Certain State Permits as COVID-19 Pand
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Our Environmental Law Firm

McGregor & Legere, P.C. is a Boston law firm representing clients in environmental and real estate matters throughout New England and consulting for clients throughout the United States since 1975.

Our client list includes corporations, individuals, municipalities, government agencies, land-owners, non-profit organizations, and environmental businesses.

Our attorneys handle the full range of environmental litigation in state and federal courts, administrative trials, and public hearings before federal, state, and local municipal boards.

We take the mystery out of environmental law and make it work for our clients.

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Examples Of Our Workaday Environmental Litigation and Other Services

Brooks Pond Association Case Settles Ownership Challenge

We won a judgment after Superior Court trial establishing our client Brooks Pond Association, Inc. as owner of a180-acre pond in four towns near Worcester and the right to make and enforce regulations for use of pond....

Falmouth, MA Home Rule Wetlands Bylaw-Related Defense

We successfully defended a Cape Cod coastal homeowner from challenges by his neighbor to his state and local wetlands permits for home expansion on his waterfront lot, in the Town of Falmouth, which has a particularly comprehensive local Home Rule wetlands bylaw and Conservation Commission regulatio...

Litigation to Clear Way For Berkshire's Hoosac Wind Farm

We obtained for our client wind farm developer, after seven years of litigation, a decision from the Supreme Judicial Court, favorable in all respects, denying on the merits an appeal by citizen groups under the Wetland Protection Act and allowing our client’s wind turbine project (known as Ho...

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Brooks Pond Association Case Settles Ownership Challenge

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