Environmental

Land development, environmental permits, air and water pollution-over the past 40 years, these have been the traditional areas of environmental legal concern.  Today however, there are many more issues impacting businesses -- e.g. climate change, carbon and greenhouse gas concerns, waste management and site remediation, endangered species, protected habitats and wetlands, locally and globally.

Regardless of the size or location of your business, the member firms that make up the Lex Mundi Environmental group have the expertise and resources to help you deal with the entire range of environmental requirements and issues that grow ever-more complex in the 21st century. Lawyers in the group can provide creative, entrepreneurial solutions to tough issues anywhere in the world. Through Lex Mundi's extensive network of environmental law practitioners in over 160 member law firms in more than 100 countries, you can quickly access high-quality, focused legal advice and assistance needed to avoid problems from the beginning, to solve problems when they arise down the road and indeed identify new market opportunities and needs.  Clients can be confident of receiving cost-effective services in a timely manner for environmental issues, be they local, state, regional, national or international in scope.

Scope of environmental advice available using a member firm lawyer of the Lex Mundi Environmental Group can include:

• Appearing before regulatory agencies (e.g. the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Army Corps of Engineers, Fish & Wildlife Service and the European Chemicals Agency), as well as  international, regional and local permitting and oversight agencies worldwide
• Prosecuting or defending claims or enforcement actions in all courts, involving governmental, business, citizen suit or private claims
• Working with legislators to enact helpful laws (and to defeat harmful ones)
• Providing start-to-finish assistance in finding, evaluating, financing, permitting, and developing environmentally suitable projects, including environmental due diligence certification for such clients as environmental servicing industries, brownfield redevelopment, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, transportation, aquaculture, paper, timberland, commercial development, mining, and energy companies
• Advising clients on how to cost-effectively comply with complex and demanding environmental regulations
• Assisting clients to ensure that, when litigation against them arises, their insurance companies provide meaningful defense and indemnification protections
• Advising that the appropriate environmental technologies are used in a focused and effective manner to achieve the client's ultimate goals

Extensive Experience With:

• Land use development, redevelopment and planning
• Hazardous substances management, waste management, recycling, and energy production
• Surface and ground water extraction and effluent discharge issues
• Air pollutant and toxic emissions
• Energy production and greenhouse gas emission standards, credit opportunities
• Carbon trading and sequestration
• Biodiversity and endangered species impacts

When your needs move beyond environmental issues, our lawyers can promptly put you in touch with their colleagues who can best serve those needs.