Environmental

Our environmental law attorneys also possess litigation, business, energy, real estate, estate planning, and municipal law backgrounds. This depth and variety of skills is essential in applying environmental laws and regulations to the specific needs of our clients. Our environmental lawyers further specialize in particular aspects of environmental law which include transactional advice, underground storage tank regulation, air, water and land use permits, insurance litigation and federal and state enforcement actions. Our environmental lawyers have also been actively involved in drafting and revising environmental statutes and regulations.

The firm has extensive experience in all types of environmental litigation and administrative practice, including state and federal enforcement actions, water rights disputes, citizen suits under environmental statutes, defense of criminal prosecutions, Superfund and MEPA litigation, environmental insurance claims and common law tort actions. Additionally, our environmental attorneys assist clients with environmental permit applications, zoning proceedings involving environmental issues, right-to-know programs and environmental auditing. We also provide a variety of environmental services to municipal clients and counsel individual and business clients in connection with real estate transactions and regulatory compliance.

Our environmental services include the following areas:

• General environmental counseling
• Environmental enforcement litigation
• Underground storage tanks
• Hazardous waste regulation
• Oil and gas/utility regulation
• Air and NPDES permits
• Sand dune and shoreland protection statutes
• Employee/community right-to-know
• Regulatory takings (inverse condemnation)
• Riparian rights disputes
• Groundwater rights and usage issues
• Environmental permitting and administrative proceedings