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Waller Lansden's environmental practice, one of the largest of its kind in the Southeast, blends a wide variety of experience to meet the diverse needs of our clients. Our attorneys have backgrounds in federal, state and local government; with environmental non-governmental organizations; as well as in private practice. This perspective allows us to develop innovative solutions to the environmental regulatory issues that directly affect the businesses of our clients.
Waller Lansden provides comprehensive representation to our clients with respect to compliance and enforcement issues arising under federal and state laws such as:
- The Clean Air Act
- The Clean Water Act
- Safe Drinking Water Acts
- The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
- The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund)
- The Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA)
- Toxic Substances Control Act
- Endangered Species Act
- National Environmental Policy Act
We have represented clients in environmental matters in a broad range of industries, including healthcare, manufacturing, utilities, pulp and paper, food products, drinking water providers, communications, waste management, commercial development, automotive manufacturing and supply, retail and others. Waller Lansden's environmental practice includes the following areas, several of that are often implicated in any one proceeding or transaction:
- Transactional Due Diligence
- Environmental Permitting
- Site Development and Brownfields
- Enforcement Defense
- Environmental Management and Regulatory Compliance
- Toxic Torts/Environmental Litigation
- Administrative and Legislative Advocacy
Our environmental attorneys often work closely with attorneys from other Waller Lansden practice groups to address the complex issues and challenges facing our clients. This team approach to the practice of law ensure that our clients' needs are being met comprehensively and cost-effectively. Our environmental attorneys assist our corporate attorneys in transactional matters including site selection for new manufacturing and commercial facilities, loans, corporate mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, as well as the purchase and sale of real property and industrial facilities, and SEC and other regulatory filings that have environmental implications. Working alongside attorneys from our trial and appellate practice, our environmental attorneys represent clients from a wide range of industries in complex tort actions arising from environmental contamination claims alleging personal injuries and injury to property. Representing individual clients, groups or industry associations, our environmental attorneys prepare and participate in the drafting and development of environmental legislation and regulations. These efforts are frequently assisted by members of the firm’s government relations practice.
Waller Lansden’s environmental practice extends across the United States, and our offices in Los Angeles and Birmingham, Ala. provide critical support to our ability to represent clients in environmental matters throughout the country. In Tennessee, our environmental attorneys literally wrote the book on environmental law – the Government Institutes Tennessee Environmental Law Handbook. Our attorneys are frequent speakers and authors on all aspects of federal and state environmental law.
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