Environmental and Natural Resources Law
Navigate any environmental challenge with confidence. Our deep environmental bench, including attorneys with advanced degrees and former energy company executives, combines technical expertise with seasoned litigation and former corporate counsel experience. We successfully guide clients through complex permitting processes, regulatory compliance and enforcement, environmental litigation, and provide environmental due diligence and counsel on environmental aspects of mergers, acquisitions, and other business transactions.
Capabilities
Chemicals Management- Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
- Resource Conservation Recovery Act (RCRA)
- Toxics Release Inventory (TRI)
- Hazard communication and worker safety programs
- Aviation fuels management
- Supply chain management
- PFAS management
| | Oil & Gas Environmental- Represent upstream, midstream, and downstream clients with oil and gas pollution, containment, non-confinement, and common law and statutory claims related to environmental issues
- Represent clients in administrative agency permitting, compliance and enforcement proceedings
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Regulatory Compliance and Enforcement- Local, state, federal, and tribal licensing and permitting, compliance and enforcement
- Environmental audits
- Comments on proposed rules and regulations
| | Underground Injection Control (UIC)- Permitting, compliance, and enforcement for oil & gas enhanced recovery, and hazardous and non-hazardous waste injection wells, including saltwater disposal wells
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Water- Permitting (quality and quantity)
- Clean Water Act (NPDES and 404 Permitting)
- Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)
- Public Water Systems (PWS)
| | Environmental Due Diligence- Full scope environmental due diligence for mergers, acquisitions, and other business transactions
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Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG)- Operationalizing ESG for regulatory compliance and shareholder and stakeholder relations
- Carbon dioxide (CO2) monitoring, recordkeeping, reporting, and offsetting
Renewable Energy and Energy Distribution- Renewable Natural Gas (RNG)
- Wind
- Solar
- Biomass
- Carbon dioxide (CO2) management
| | Other Environmental- Tribal consultations and permitting in Indian Country
- National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
- Clean Air Act (CAA)
- Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund)
- National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA)
- FEMA flood management
- Endangered Species Act (ESA)
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