Environmental, Energy & Natural Resources Litigation

With recognized environmental lawyers located in our Washington D.C., Michigan, and Illinois Offices, including former senior officials from the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and related state agencies, Clark Hill represents clients in complex environmental, energy, and natural resources litigation. Clark Hill assists clients with administrative, civil, and criminal enforcement actions, and the defense and prosecution of private party environmental cases, toxic tort, multidistrict, cost recovery, and other complex litigation.

Our team represents clients at sites in actions involving the Clean Water and Clean Air Acts, hazardous waste programs such as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”), Comprehensive Emergency Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (“CERCLA”), the Atomic Energy Act (“AEA”) and nuclear waste regulations, and groundwater contamination, including defending or prosecuting cost recovery claims, negotiating regulatory requirements, and crafting settlements. Practice group highlights include:

• Premier team of former general counsels and recognized environmental leaders from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, DOJ, EPA, and state agencies.
• Routinely handle complex environmental, energy, and natural resource cases before federal circuit and district courts, and state and administrative tribunals involving enforcement defense, environmental assessments, licenses and permit issues, cleanup responsibility for chemical and radiological wastes, toxic torts, rehabilitation of former manufactured gas sites, regulatory or permitting challenges, and citizen suit cases.
• Broad experience with the RCRA, Superfund (CERCLA), TSCA, CAA, CWA, and natural resource laws such as the ESA, and related state statutes.
• Representation of Fortune 500 and other public and private sector clients in matters involving the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, NRC, the Department of Energy, and related federal, state, and local regulatory agencies.
• Representation in connection with natural resource damages and recovery actions, underground storage tanks, nuclear and chemical releases, and other matters involving soil and groundwater contamination.
• Substantial experience with government investigations and other matters having the potential to result in civil or criminal enforcement.