tree cutting

The maple tree in front of my house

was completely cut. I was not informed by the association of this

tragedy. I thought it was only for

trimming. I want another tree

planted. What are my option. I loved my tree.

Barking dogs

I live in an apt.building where right behind me they opened a dog daycare which I hear barking dogs 5 days a week it's driving me crazy. I have problems sleeping at night and I try to lay down in the morning but can't because of the barking.Please what can I do? I am exhusted!

Landlord Soil Contamination

I own an auto repair business in New

Jersey and we have been closed

down for about 3 months due to a

soil contamination problem. We lease

the land and building from a landlord.

The EPA sent us a letter detailing the

cleanup and insuring us it wouldn�t

take more than a few days. It seems

as if the landlord dragged his feet

cleaning up the soil causing us to

lose earnings as well as potential

new customers. Do I have a

negligence case against him because

he did nothing to fix the problems for

numerous months? Thanks for your

help.

Cutting nieghbor trees

What legal right do we have to trim a nieghbor's tree that is hanging in our yard???

Eeo/aa

I'm an international students and my teacher give me these questions to answer so if you please can help me with that because I have no idea about the american regulations.

1)is EEO law enforcement politically driven? explain

2) look for a recent supreme court decsion related to EEO/AA case and tell me a little about the case..who was involved.. what happened and then your thoughts.

I appreciate your help and cooperation.

EIS Outdated?

My County Council is considering a controversial zoning change that would turn a 670 acre agricultural parcel into a 1,400 unit residential development. The EIS for the project is 19 years old. During that time the population of the county has nearly doubled, and the area around the project has seen huge increases in people, traffic, water usage, etc. There does not seem to be a legal requirement to update the EIS and public protest about using the old one is being ignored. Are there any cases, nationwide, addressing the matter of a project hanging around so long that the EIS is no longer valid. (The actual location of this is Maui, but there are not enough environmental attorneys in Hawaii for submission of this question to be meaningful in this forum, and ''entire US'' is not an option that is given.)

neighbor has put in motor cross trac

We live in a neighborhood with 2.5 acre zoing (res estate) ; a few people are aricultural. A ten acre plot which had a home and a plant nursery on it was sold to a man who has put in a motor cross track in the property. The noise and dust are making it impossible for those of us who border his land to enjoy our yards, or to open our windows. The code inspector says the guy is not breaking the law. What can we do? We are thinking of getting a group and going to the county commission, and if no relief perhaps trying to sue? Any advice is appreciated.

LIttering on Officers Personal Property

If I was driving down a public highway , and threw a gum wrapper into an officers yard. This officers notes say that it was a large amount of paper so he writes me a littering ticket after yelling at me for a few minutes about how that was his property and that he was sick of picking up trash there. Is there anything I can do because this officer has an obvious personal vendetta for these offenders.

water ban

The town I live in just enacted a water ban on all households with private wells. Is this legal?

dog hoarding

what legal rights do we have as neighbors of dog (19) hoarder and the ongoing problems (fles,flies,barking,stench)?

litter

is there a reward system in california for turning in people who litter?

fallen tree

If tree breaks off and falls onto neighboring property whose wood is it

neighbors power lines

I have a tall tree that is over my neighbors electric lines. after a big storm a branch was laying across thier power lines doing no damage when removed. now they are saying we have to trim the tree. we really cant afford to do that right now. do we have to trim the tree just because they want us to?

property

persondeverting water on to my property because a water easment runs on my land

tree removal/trimming

Our property is adjacent to a county forest preserve. W/in a few feet of the property line (but on the preserve's side) there are 4 native locust trees covered in 2 - 3 inch thorns. We contacted the preserve to discuss what could be done about the trees (a thorn punctured my heel a couple years ago, and now we have a 2 yr old that plays on our property near the trees). We expected it would offer to prune the offending branches, however the preserve prefers to remove their trees completely... and wants us to split the cost 50/50. It has also offered to split pruning costs 50/50 (alternative option). However, so far the preserve has not gotten back to us w/ a cost estimate (plenty of time to do so), only with a voicemail from our contact asking us to call ASAP and let him know how much we're ''willing to spend.'' I obtained an estimate from a tree-trimming service, and complete remove could be a couple thousand. Should we have to pay anything for trees that don't belong to us? Isn't this a potential liability for the preserve? Is it a potential liability for us (if a guest was injured by one of these fallen thorns could we be sued)? Do we have the law on our side to demand the preserve do something about these? Thank you.

Economic losses offset Economic Benefits of Environmental Non compliance

We are involved in a state EPA case involving a penalty for air non compliance. The penalty is based on an economic benefit calculated based on the US EPA Ben model. In addition to the economic benefits (foregone interest, etc) we had economic losses due to not being able to distill and recover solvents which we are now able to do with the control device. Are there any cases where this type of economic loss has been offset against economic benefits to reduce the ben penalty. The US EPA Ben users manual instructions allow for this in certain cases. Thanks.

water run off

My neighbor changed the flow of runoff water by filling in a swimming pool and bringing in a couple of loads of dirt and building up his yard. He then built a retaining wall that directs the water down hill into my yard. I have a foot of water in my crawl space, my yard is ruined and my den carpet is soaked. Do I have recourse?

Neighbor's tree may fall on my house

My neighbor's property slopes down

steeply into my tiny backyard. There

are three huge maple trees growing

out of one base, midway up the

slope, and the roots are exposed on

my side of the trees. Rain causes

soil to wash away from the roots and

onto my property. I've had

landscapers refuse to build a

retaining wall for me because of the

risk of the roots being disturbed, and

they say the tree's condition is

dangerous. If they fall, they can only

fall in one direction: on my house.

The owner will not cut down the

trees, and says they're fine.

neighbors tree

if you neigbors tree fall in your yard

who should pay to have it removed?

Owned rivers

The Tacoa River East of Blue Ridge Georgia has been purchase by a bunch of rich people who have now posted no fishing signs for miles down the river. My Father and I were harassed during our last fishing trip by one of these land owners. Is there a law preventing ownership over rivers like that in the federal or Georgia State governments.