Free Webinar Open to All! Environmental Law Update — Need To Know Developments 2025-2026

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Free Webinar Open to All! Environmental Law Update — Need To Know Developments 2025-2026

This Lunch & Learn virtual event is sponsored by MACC and is FREE and OPEN to all — MACC members and non-members alike! Learn how recent developments in environmental, land use, real estate, municipal, energy, climate, and constitutional law affect your work.

We provide the information. You provide the lunch and any refreshments!

WHEN: Thursday, May 14, 2026

TIME: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, EDT
WHERE: Virtual Event
CONTACTt: Paige Buller — This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
(617) 489-3930

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MACC Free Lunch & Learn Webinar Series

TOPIC: Environmental Law Update: Need to Know Developments, 2025-2026

MACC Lunch & Learns are FREE and open to all - members and non-members alike! Conservation commissioners, agents, volunteers, consultants, and peer reviewers will learn how recent developments in environmental, land use, real estate, municipal, and constitutional law affect their work. Keeping current on your evolving duties, powers and procedures, and knowing the new laws and rules on the books, helps you be effective and stay out of trouble. This is an important topic presented by an experienced attorney - be sure to register!

SPEAKER: Gregor McGregor, Esq. | Partner | McGregor Law Group, PC

Gregor McGregor is a former MACC Director and environmental attorney whose law firm, McGregor Law Group, PC, is likely the oldest environmental law firm in New England. It handles environmental law, land use, real estate, and related litigation. His court cases, including several for MACC as amicus, have created precedents on municipal Home Rule powers, wetland and floodplain protection, land preservation and taxation, law enforcement, Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA) and Environmental Impact Reports (EIRs), Article 97 and other open space protections, and the law of Regulatory Takings. Before 1975, Greg was an Assistant Attorney General and the first chief of the Massachusetts Attorney General's Division of Environmental Protection. For 18 years he served on the Wellesley Natural Resources Commission (NRC), which is the only elected Conservation Commission, and has been president of MACC twice. He graduated from Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School. Greg has taught many workshops at MACC’s conferences, responded to Helpline Questions, helped to update the E-Handbook, and was an integral part of the MACC Board of Directors for 50 years. In 2020, he received MACC’s prestigious Long-Time Environmental Service Award.

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Gregor I. McGregor, Esq.

GREGOR I. McGREGOR, Esq. is the founder and principal of New England’s oldest environmental law firm, McGregor Legere & Stevens PC., formed in 1975.

The firm handles all aspects of environmental law, land use, real estate, energy, and related litigation. Mr. McGregor enjoys Martindale-Hubbell’s highest rating for attorneys (AV).

In over 50 years of legal practice, Mr. McGregor's court cases created precedents on Environmental Impact Statements under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA), wetland and floodplain law under the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act, hazardous waste cleanup liability and cost-recovery under the Massachusetts Superfund, reduced taxes for land conservation transactions, Article 97 open space and parkland protection, Home Rule environmental ordinances and bylaws of cities and towns, court enforcement remedies, and the constitutional doctrine of Regulatory Takings.

Before 1975, Mr. McGregor was an Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts and the first chief of the Attorney General’s Division of Environmental Protection. In that capacity he advised and represented the Commonwealth during the formative years of Massachusetts environmental statutes, agencies, regulations, enforcement and cases in court.

Mr. McGregor is editor of the two-volume treatise on Massachusetts Environmental Law, published by Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. (MCLE). He is co-chair of MCLE’s annual Environmental, Land Use, and Energy Law Conference and MCLE’s Real Estate and Environmental Law Curriculum Advisory Committee. He received from MCLE in 2013 its Scholar-Mentor Award recognizing his dedication to legal scholarship and leadership.

Mr. McGregor co-chairs the Environmental and Renewable Energy Law Section of the Real Estate Bar Association for Massachusetts (REBA) and serves as a member of the REBA Board of Directors. He is an active member of the Massachusetts Municipal Lawyers Association (MMLA), which honored him for his career contributions and advocacy on the Home Rule Doctrine. At a National CLE Conference in Vail, CO, Mr. McGregor for many years co-chaired an annual seminar on Environmental Law, Land Use, Energy & Litigation for attorneys from across the United States.

The firm is a founding member of the Environmental Law Network (ELN), an alliance of specialty law firms, in the United States and abroad, sharing legal expertise and practical experience for the benefit of their clients.

Mr. McGregor is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School.

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