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The Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP Environmental Practice Group conducts a national practice in regulatory compliance, litigation, toxic tort, health and safety, and land use.   Our attorneys have diverse backgrounds in industry, government and private practice.  Our practice includes agency negotiation and advocacy for our clients at federal, state and local levels across the US.  We are supportive of our clients’ strategic and budgetary objectives, and we litigate disputes both before administrative agencies and in the federal and state courts.  We counsel, advise and negotiate for our private and public clients in connection with business and asset acquisitions, financing and dispositions, including structuring Brownfields solutions where the regulatory structure and risk management associated with the particular asset makes this a viable solution.  In all cases, our backgrounds enable our group to offer substantive experience and practical insight in helping to resolve a broad array of environmental, health, and safety issues faced by our clients. 

Our Strengths

  • Federal Clean Air Act and state air emissions controls and permitting
  • Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), Resource Recovery and Conservation Act (RCRA) and state law enforcement and private cost recovery claims and litigation
  • Real estate development, including both projects privately financed in entirety, and in partnership with public authorities
  • Surface and ground water supply and regulation
  • Freshwater and coastal wetlands controls
  • Water supply, use and regulation
  • Solid waste management, procurement and regulation
  • Recycling facilities procurement and permitting
  • Toxic use and Community Right to Know laws
  • Product registration under the Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA) 
  • Asbestos and other health and safety issues under OSHA and comparable state laws
  • Hazardous waste compliance and permitting
  • Facility siting and development, including e.g., development of inland and coastal public utility and merchant energy projects, and cogeneration facilities utilized by industrial and other private clients
  • Negotiation of innovative “Brownfields” strategies involving our clients’ impaired asset acquisitions, sale, expansion, conversion and/or development
  • Environmental impact assessment and development of alternatives under the National Environmental Policy Act and companion state laws
  • Site investigation and remediation in risk-based cleanups
  • Litigation and resolving claims for natural resources damages (NRD) in various locations impacting on highly regulated environmental resources and areas
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