Environment & Product Regulation Conflicting Priorities

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The forces that threaten the environment are coming into sharper focus, with many businesses embracing innovation that mitigates damage and represents tremendous commercial opportunity and still others pushing to ease burdensome environmental restrictions. Along with long-term business imperatives, companies must also contend with regulatory regimes tasked with conflicting mandates and pursuing vastly different agendas. Kilpatrick’s attorneys support clients in meeting health, safety, and environmental challenges throughout the United States and around the world. We have experience in almost every state in the nation and have worked on projects in Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Reach

Meeting The Challenge

Our attorneys provide a full range of business and transactional planning, compliance counseling, and litigation services for our clients. We frequently represent companies in matters before state and federal courts and agencies, as well as those facing actions by the U.S. Congress and state legislatures, and our ranks include former regulators at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Justice (DOJ). We provide preventative counseling and management of environmental permitting to assist clients in avoiding health, safety, and environmental regulatory conflicts related to:

FDA Regulation
Air
NPDES Permitting & Compliance
Non-Discharge, Reclaimed Water & Bio Solids
Storm Water Management
On-Site Wastewater
Water & Wastewater Infrastructure
Wetland & Stream Permitting
Environmental Litigation
Water Quality Policy
Brownfields
Coastal & Ocean Resources

Approach

Technicalities

Beyond our legal capabilities, the team also includes professionals trained in engineering, chemistry, biology, the physical sciences, and economics, combining our knowledge of the law with technical expertise to address legislative imperatives including:

Resolution of regulatory issues and controversies related to The Clean Air Act
Clean Water Act permitting and modification of water quality standards
Negotiating and implementing Brownfield agreements with state and federal governments
Representation of clients responsible for hazardous substances sites under the CERCLA/Superfund and equivalent state programs
Environmental due diligence around the purchase, sale, or lease of a property
Representation of companies and trade associations in federal and state rule making proceedings
Defense of toxic tort and related claims
Representation of policyholders in negotiation to obtain insurance coverage for environmental damages and recovery of costs from remediation of contaminated properties