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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.

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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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Mr. McGregor’s keynote address to the Annual Environmental Conference (AEC) of the Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions (MACC) at Holy Cross College on March 1, 2025, marked his retirement from the MACC Board after 50 years.

Firm senior partner Gregor I. McGregor will deliver the keynote address at the Annual Environmental Conference (AEC) of the Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions (MACC). This is to mark his retirement from the MACC Board of Directors after 50 years.

Firm senior partner Gregor I. McGregor and wetlands and open space expert Michele Grzenda have teamed up to present a Q&A workshop at the Annual Environmental Conference (AEC) of the Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions (MACC).

At its Annual Environmental Conference (AEC) at Holy Cross College in Worcester on February 29, 2020, attended by 800 people, the Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions (MACC) gave our founding partner Gregor McGregor recognition for his long service to environmental law in general, conservation law especially, and wetlands protection law most particularly.

Citizen groups may sue project proponents using the so-called Citizen Suit Statute, G.L. c. 214, §7A, to challenge decisions allowing projects that would allegedly cause damage to the environment in violation of the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act ("MEPA").