Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan LLP’s Environmental
Law Department attorneys are focused on creative and
cost effective solutions to the challenges environmental
laws present. We know that our clients depend upon
timely and effective communication and solutions to
address their many needs. Our Environmental Law Department
attorneys have the experience and perspective necessary
to solve the problems that arise where environmental
rules intersect with business objectives of large
and small businesses and local governments.
Solid and Hazardous Waste: Environmental
Law Team attorneys have provided counsel in matters
involving the Federal Comprehensive Environmental
Response; Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA),
including cost recovery enforcement and defense and
counseling at multiple PRP Superfund sites; achieving
compliance with and defending enforcement actions
under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA);
and in private litigation. We have also represented
businesses across the country in State-lead enforcement
and voluntary cleanup actions under the many state
laws. Our attorneys have counseled clients on international
management of waste under the Basel Convention.
Transactional, Siting, and Brownfields Matters:
Our attorneys have the skill and experience to guide
our clients through complex transaction and siting
projects. We have represented buyers, sellers, and
lenders in real estate and business transactions where
environmental conditions have threatened to directly
affect the outcome of the deals. We work with clients
to develop a strategy to successfully complete projects,
including environmental due diligence, determination
of the cost or a range of costs of environmental conditions,
risk management, and contractual allocation of environmental
liability. We also have developed creative means to
fund and implement cost effective remedial and development
strategies for contaminated Brownfields properties.
Surface Water, Groundwater, and Wetlands:
We have experience with water pollution legislation
and rules covering wetlands, groundwater, stormwater,
riparian property issues, toxics, and pretreatment.
Team attorneys have provided compliance counseling,
permitting, variances, enforcement, and litigation
services in all water related matters and land use
issues at the federal and state levels.
Air Pollution Control and Permitting:
Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan LLP attorneys have the
experience to advise and represent clients in construction
and operation permitting, enforcement actions, and
compliance counseling. We are focused on workable
solutions to the many challenges presented by air
pollution control rules.
Management Counseling: Team attorneys
have acted as outside general counsel to manage complex
environmental programs for corporations and assist
senior management in strategic decision making. This
work has included designing and implementing attorney-client
privileged environmental audit programs, as well as
ensuring that business models comply with complex
environmental regulations. Our attorneys have also
written materials (including procedure manuals and
internal newsletters) and conducted seminars on environmental
policy for employee education.
Insurance Coverage and Procurement:
Insureds and insurers vigorously dispute whether and
to what extent insurance policies provide coverage
for environmental damage. As new opinions are frequently
handed down on these matters, Team attorneys provide
clients with current knowledge of the law. We have
also assisted clients in utilizing insurance coverage
to manage property and business risk.
Crisis Counseling: Experience as
counsel in connection with fires, explosions, chemical
spills, community evacuations, and transportation
incidents allow our environmental attorneys to swiftly
guide our clients through these intense crises. Environmental
Law Team attorneys have assisted management officials
responsible for dealing with regulatory agencies,
the media, and the public.
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