Lawrence A. Kogan, Author at Regulating for Globalization

By Lawrence A. Kogan

The author currently serves as environmental defense counsel in several 30-year-plus Clean Water Act legal actions and federal Indian and water law matters, and previously served as international trade and regulatory adviser to multinational corporations and trade associations, Vice-Chair of the International Trade Committee of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association, and as a member of the Trump administration transition team for USTR.

Trade Law, USA

Mutually Assured Trade Destruction Tariff-Style Further Diminishes Individual Sovereignty

Lawrence A. Kogan (The Kogan Law Group)/20/04/201824/04/2018 /Leave a comment

There was legal mention recently about how the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) had increased the difficulty for business to deduct environmental litigation expenses (e.g., property remediation expenses or compliance costs) incurred incident to a U.S. Department of Justice Environmental and Natural Resources Department (DOJ-ENRD)-initiated enforcement action. The inability of a business to deduct expenses incurred…