They also made the environmental law rollbacks an election issue in 2015 and led the Prime Minister to direct his cabinet ministers to undertake the review of four
major federal environmental laws, processes and bodies: the Fisheries Act, Navigation Protection Act, environmental assessment processes and the National Energy Board.
Not exact matches
Among other areas, our litigation experience in the
environmental area includes governmental and private - party actions under CERCLA (including serving as lead counsel for PRP groups at
major Superfund sites throughout the United States), citizen suits under RCRA, the Clean Water Act and other
environmental laws, claims for property damage and personal injury arising from industrial emissions or
environmental contamination, and defending clients against state and
federal governmental enforcement actions.
In private practice, Tom represented clients in a wide range of
federal civil and criminal litigation brought under
federal environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, while also representing clients in the
environmental review and permitting for
major energy and railroad infrastructure projects.
We have vast experience with all of the
major federal environmental, safety and health
laws and regulations and their state analogs, which are enforced by state attorneys general.
Counseled
major aerospace manufacturing company regarding how to remediate heavily contaminated property, in compliance with
federal and state hazardous waste, water, and
environmental disclosure
laws and administrative orders, while advising company on litigation strategy to narrow the scope of those orders.