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peopleJennifer Morgan practices in regulatory and administrative law. She focuses her practice in alcoholic beverage distribution and regulation and regularly represents suppliers, importers, wineries, breweries, distilleries, brokers, wholesalers and retail permittees before the North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control (“ABC”) Commission, including matters involving supplier-wholesaler relationships; beer and wine distribution agreements; brand distribution disputes; distribution and sub-distribution contracts; trade practice investigations; requests for exemption; and compliance proceedings. Jennifer assists and advises clients in obtaining ABC permits and represents clients in drafting distribution agreements, sub-distribution agreements, franchise agreements, alternating proprietorships and other contracts. She assists and advises clients in obtaining permits, drafting agreements and advertising for beer and wine festivals in North Carolina. She also assists clients with questions regarding advertising, labeling and other trade practice matters involving alcoholic beverages. She is a contributing author to Williams Mullen's Alcoholic Beverage Law Blog.
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insightOn March 29, 2019, the immigration team in Williams Mullen's Labor, Employment & Immigration Section filed more than 100 H-1B cap-subject petitions with U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services in this year’s FY2020 lottery. Attorneys Earl Baggett, Bill Benos, Hadeel Abouhasira and Tom Narvaez were joined by paralegals Brigid Prescott-Frank, Chrissy Hart, Maeva Williamson and legal administrative assistants Nicole Rushin and Debra Berry to help get the petitions out the door.
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insightCongratulations to Cart Reilly, who was recently named the 2019 recipient of the Norfolk & Portsmouth Bar Association's Walter E. Hoffman Community Service Award. The award provides public recognition for outstanding service to the community by one of the association's younger members. Cart herself is a member of the Norfolk & Portsmouth Bar Association Foundation's board of directors and is a past chair of the Young Lawyers Section.
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insightWilliams Mullen is pleased to announce that the firm received a perfect score of 100 on the 2019 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), the nation’s premier benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ workplace equality, administered by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation.
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insightClick on the button below for a full PDF of the Environmental Newsletter. View PDF
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insightLast year, we reported on EPA’s decision to allow the expiration of a moratorium on the 2016 Obama Climate Action Plan rule and guidelines seeking to reduce landfill methane emissions (“Methane Rule and Guidelines”). Specifically, in early 2018, EPA informed industry that the agency would not go to court to try and maintain a stay on the Methane Rule and Guidelines despite a petition by industry to reconsider the more stringent requirements.
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insightFor many facilities and construction sites, the routine practical problems arising from wet weather go with the territory. However, if stormwater management is compromised or if flooding and coastal storm surges occur, a storm can cause damage and interruption of operations to even a well-designed and operated property. Depending on the configuration and state of repair of a facility or construction site, storm conditions can lead to significant environmental risks and impacts, including discharges of pollutants, discharges of fill material to streams and wetlands, and larger-scale releases of hazardous materials.
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insightThere are many benefits of corporate environmental auditing programs for companies large and small, not the least of which is the potential mitigation of civil penalties for violations of environmental laws discovered during an audit. For nearly 25 years, EPA has implemented a policy titled, “Incentives for Self-Policing: Discovery, Disclosure, Correction and Prevention of Violations.” Also known as the “Audit Policy,” it provides incentives to regulated entities who voluntarily discover, self-report and correct suspected violations of federal environmental laws and regulations. Part of EPA’s FY 2018-2022 Strategic Plan is a renewed emphasis on encouraging regulated entities to take advantage of the Audit Policy.
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insightPer- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of over 4,000 synthetic chemicals that have been in use world-wide since the 1940s. They are found in a wide array of consumer and industrial products, including firefighting foam; stain and water-resistant coatings, clothing and carpet; cookware; and waxes and cleaners. Products containing PFAS are found in almost every U.S. home and business. According to EPA, “Due to their wide-spread use and persistence in the environment, most people of the United States have been exposed to PFAS. There is evidence that continued exposure above specific levels to certain PFAS may lead to adverse health effects.” These effects can occur at extremely low concentrations, in the parts per trillion (‘ppt”). For reference purposes, 1 ppt is 1 part per 1,000,000,000,000. It’s equivalent to six inches in the 93 million-mile journey to the sun, or about three seconds in 100,000 years.
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insightIn January of 2018, the Virginia State Air Pollution Control Board (“Air Board”) published a proposed rule to establish a CO2 emissions cap and trade program in Virginia (the “Original Proposal”). The regulations set an initial state-wide target for CO2 emissions from electric generating facilities, allocated emission allowances to those facilities and required those allowances to be consigned to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (“RGGI”) for auction. After receiving comments on the Original Proposal, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) reconsidered the rule in light of those comments and new information received from RGGI and an outside consultant.