Practice overview
Clark Hill environmental law attorneys have cutting-edge expertise in a broad range of environmental matters, including permitting, regulatory compliance and enforcement, administrative appeals and litigation, as well as the environmental aspects of corporate and real estate transactions. Our attorneys have extensive experience negotiating with regulatory agencies and, where necessary, aggressively challenging statutes, administrative rules and guidelines to provide the best possible results for clients who are the recipients of administrative orders and other government demands.
Our extensive and varied environmental law experience includes:
- Transactional work in connection with corporate mergers and acquisitions, real estate sales and financing, including structuring corporate sales and acquisitions to minimize environmental liabilities, negotiating environmental contract provisions, performing due diligence audits, assisting in Phase I/Phase II Environmental Site Assessments, BEAs, and Due Care Plans;
- Brownfield redevelopment, including preparing and reviewing brownfield plans, and assisting in obtaining brownfield funding through tax increment financing and single business tax credits;
- Regulatory compliance and permitting, including environmental audits, NPDES and pretreatment permits, PCBs, asbestos, underground storage tanks, air permits, and spill reporting requirements;
- Litigation, including the defense of environmental citizen suits and civil and criminal enforcement cases, representing both plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal Superfund cost recovery and contribution actions, litigating insurance coverage for pollution claims, and defending toxic tort claims;
- Remediation, including negotiating consultant contracts, negotiating remediation and closure plans with governmental agencies, and assisting in remediation protocols;
- Legislative and administrative proceedings, including providing comments on rulemakings and testimony before legislative bodies, and representing clients in administrative proceedings;
- Wetlands and riparian rights, including assisting clients in obtaining wetlands permits, representing parties in wetlands violation, replacement and restoration matters, and representing property owners in riparian rights disputes;
- Counseling, including advising corporations and individuals on successor, director, officer and shareholder environmental liability.
Clark Hill clients range from individuals and closely-held companies to nonprofit organizations, real estate developers, municipal entities, lenders, redevelopment authorities, chemical and metals manufacturers, Tier I automotive suppliers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, transportation companies and other major corporations that encompass all facets of industry, manufacturing, distribution, commerce and information technology.
Clark Hill environmental attorneys help clients interpret and comply with a broad range of complex federal and state environmental laws and regulations. We provide regulatory counseling, handle environmental issues in corporate and real estate transactions, defend and prosecute federal and state Superfund cost recovery actions and defend environmental enforcement actions.
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