The Environmental
team has experience advising oil and gas companies, maritime
clients, service industry companies, chemical companies, financial
institutions, manufacturers and transportation clients. Among other
services our attorneys assess your potential environmental liability
with regard to the purchase and sale of properties. Our attorneys
have experience in hazardous waste litigation, management and
transportation. Our attorneys have vast experience in all relevant
international, United States and state statutory laws, including air
quality, water quality, solid and hazardous waste management,
remedial and corrective actions at waste sites, toxins, land use
planning and zoning, flood insurance, regulatory problems, wetlands
policy coastal zone management, mineral law, underground injection,
oilfield waste and hazardous materials transportation.
Our lawyers have
engineering backgrounds and experience as state agency lawyers and
prosecutors in the State Department of Justice. Our attorneys
regularly coordinate environmental regulatory compliance for clients
which involves general advice on laws and regulations, the
preparation of documents and materials for regulatory agencies,
defense in enforcement actions (administrative and judicial), and
defense of private claims. We guide our clients through the proper
procedures to obtain needed permits for their businesses.