We stay ahead of environment, legal and regulatory developments to help our clients manage day-to-day operations and build durable, long-lasting compliance strategies.
The Mitchell Williams team of environment and natural resources lawyers have been on the fore-front of emerging environmental issues for decades. Top ranked by Chambers USA, our environment and natural resources practice is backed with years of experience and extensive relationships to work with clients as advocates and partners to help anticipate challenges and resolve issues that can impede operations or stand in the way of successfully completing a project. Our team’s collective experience covers all major environmental arenas including water and wetlands, air quality, solid and hazardous waste management, regulated storage tanks, toxic substances, mining and reclamation, superfund, toxic tort, natural resources, and conservation and preservation.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Comprehensive environment and natural resources legal counsel
- Top Ranked by Chambers USA
- Extensive regulatory relationships
- Expansive knowledge and collective experience
CAPABILITIES
- Permitting, compliance, and enforcement matters in all environmental program areas
- Environmental due diligence in corporate, lending, real estate, and other business transactions
- Clean Air Act
- Clean Water Act, and wetlands
- Regulated storage tanks
- RCRA solid and hazardous waste management
- Recycling and resource recovery
- Toxic Substances Control Act and pesticide laws
- Common law water rights and surface water withdrawal permits
- Litigation defense involving Superfund, toxic torts, natural resource damages, and clean up costs
- Environmental clean up, voluntary natural resource remediation, and Brownfield property redevelopment
- Legislation, administrative rulemaking, and policy development
- Conservation easement agreements
- Siting, regulatory review, permitting, and mitigation for project development
- Compliance monitoring, environmental management systems, and disclosures