Pollution and
Environmental Liability covers clean - up of property and any lawsuits from environmental and / or pollutant damages.
Not exact matches
Within the Policy Brief, Lehr writes that the ten years following the establishment of the EPA in 1971 he «helped write a significant number of legislative bills that were to make up a true safety net for our environment,» including, «Water Pollution Control Act (later renamed the Clean Water Act), Safe Drinking Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Surface Mining and Reclamation Act (which, surprisingly,
covered deep mines as well), Clean Air Act, Federal Insecticide, Rodenticide, and Fungicide Act, and Comprehensive
Environmental Response Compensation and
Liability Act (which we now know as Superfund).»
His practice
covers a range of litigation, including commercial, class action defense, product
liability, mass tort,
environmental, trade secret, insurance coverage, and real property title disputes in state and federal courts.
With chapters written by leading international experts, topics
covered include: the government's role in energy ownership and development; industry standards for establishing
liability; legal concepts excusing performance during periods of commodity price or supply volatility; right of access to infrastructure; barriers to entry for foreign companies; criminal, health and safety, and
environmental liability; sovereign boundary disputes; and relevant energy treaties.
Dowd Bennett's class action, mass tort and MDL practice
covers an array of industries and includes lawsuits involving employment, product
liability, antitrust,
environmental tort and consumer claims.
Our
environmental litigation practice
covers every aspect of federal and state
environmental law including rulemaking, permits, enforcement, hazardous substances and toxic wastes, insecticides and fungicides, superfund and natural resources damages
liability, land use and contaminated property, citizen suits, and air and water issues.
His particular expertise
covers health, safety and
environmental (including nuisance, noise abatement, pollution, permit appeals and
environmental warranty and civil claims), judicial review, corporate defence (including bribery and corruption, investigations and corporate manslaughter), inquest law, food hygiene and safety, transport law, including public inquiries in front of traffic commissioners, product safety,
liability and recall, and he is a solicitor - advocate.