Environmental Law

The complex interaction between human beings and the environment creates and renews new and old legal problems.  DOMINA LAW Group pc llo has been out front on these issues throughout the country since the 1970s.

Confined animal feeding organizations (“CAFOs”) principally appeared in the cattle business in the 1960s.  Shortly thereafter, CAFO hog harrowing and feeding operations sprung up.  Nuisance complaints and clean water issues followed.  Clean air problems came much later.

When Nebraska’s largest swine and beef operations found themselves confronted with nuisance and environmental regulation issues, they turned to DOMINA LAW Group pc llo.  The firm’s trial work includes presentation to final verdict and judgment of more than a dozen nuisance cases, and more than one-half dozen appellate decisions.  Farmers and cattle and hog producers resolved hundreds of issues with neighbors and regulators through DOMINA LAW Group pc llo’s efforts.

But, the firm’s environmental practice experience does not end there.  Other examples of the firm’s work include Clean Water Act litigation against the US Department of Justice and cases involving clean air claims by an industrial organization located in a small community.

DOMINA LAW Group pc llo’s practice includes negotiated resolution of issues associated with abandoned petroleum wells, remediation of lead, methane, and arsenic issues in soil, and high stakes environmental clean up concerns in general.

LRNRD sends new water plan to attorney general ALMA - A draft 2010 integrated water management plan for the Lower Republican Natural Resources District, including an alternative for Republican River Compact compliance in water-short years, will be delivered to the Nebraska Attorney General's Office today. | Full Story

Atrazine – It’s Dangerous and Midwesterns are Exposed Atrazine may kill more than weeds.  It is popular as an herbicide in crops and on golf courses and lawns across the Midwest. But, recent studies make it clear atrazine washes into water supplies and becomes among the most common contaminates in American reservoirs and other sources of drinking water.  On August 23, 2009 a front-page report published by the New York Times reported that atrazine may be dangerous at much lower concentrations than previously thought. | Full Story

Nebraska Supreme Court Will Hear Douglas County Landfill Case- Review of Court of Appeals Ruling Granted Waste Management’s purchase of a Douglas County farm property in 1989, for use as the Douglas County Landfill, proved to be a problematic transaction. Phases of the transaction, or matters related to it, have appeared in Nebraska’s appellate courts previously. | Full Story

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