Practice Focus
Environmental Law and Science, PLLC has experience with a wide range of environmental law matters and challenges at the federal level and in many states, from Minnesota to the US Virgin Islands.
Four primary areas
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Environmental Compliance & Advocacy
Permitting, enforcement defense, and counsel across federal and state environmental laws.
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Contaminated Sites & Brownfields
CERCLA and RCRA cleanup, cost recovery, consent decrees, and brownfield redevelopment.
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Business Transactions
Environmental risk in M&A and real estate — due diligence, indemnities, and liability allocation.
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PFAS & Chemical Regulation
PFAS counsel, TSCA compliance, chemical release reporting, and emerging-contaminant strategy.
Environmental Compliance & Advocacy
Advising and supporting clients in complying with the vast network of laws addressing air, water and waste — from permitting and auditing to the defense of agency enforcement actions.
Services
- Facility EHS operation, management and regulatory compliance
- Environmental auditing, EHS compliance programs, internal investigations, release reporting and voluntary self-disclosures
- Enforcement response support for agency inspections, information requests, and enforcement actions
- Compliance counseling, permitting, strategic planning, advocacy and enforcement response for most federal environmental laws and state equivalents — including RCRA, CWA, CAA, EPCRA and TSCA
- Occupational safety and health law compliance
- Environmental litigation
Contaminated Sites & Brownfields
Legal support for clients facing potential liability from third-party and legacy waste sites, and for the cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated property.
Services
- Contaminated property issues under CERCLA, RCRA and related state statutes for owned, third-party and legacy sites
- Cost recovery, contribution, allocation and natural resource damage actions and defenses
- Response to agency information requests, cleanup orders and cost claims
- Cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated properties, including under state voluntary cleanup programs
- Negotiation of administrative orders and judicial consent decrees
- Federal and state liability protections for property purchases and brownfield developments
Business Transactions
Counseling clients on the environmental aspects of corporate, real estate and other business transactions — from due diligence through risk allocation.
Services
- Advising clients on environmental risks in business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and real estate
- Managing and overseeing environmental due diligence
- Allocating environmental risk through transactional documents, environmental indemnities and alternative risk mitigation
- Securing liability assurance letters
- Supporting contaminated property investigation, acquisition, cleanup and redevelopment
- Coordinating with environmental consultants
PFAS & Chemical Regulation
Strategic and compliance advice on chemical product regulation, including PFAS and other emerging chemicals, across federal and state programs.
Services
- PFAS advice and guidance — emerging federal and state laws, regulations, policies and use restrictions, plus PFAS health science, remediation and litigation
- TSCA counseling and compliance, including new and existing chemicals regulation, import and export requirements and reporting
- EPCRA notification and reporting
- Chemical release reporting
- Emerging chemical management concerns
- State chemical regulation programs