Building and operating energy projects requires unavoidable regulatory interaction, permitting and compliance.
With a constantly evolving environmental landscape, you need knowledgeable counsel to guide you through today’s regulations and prepare you for what’s coming tomorrow.
Utilizing our staff engineers and multiple attorneys with former careers in science and engineering, we cost-effectively negotiate and successfully obtain permits, achieving compliance for the following: air, water granting and quality, solid and hazardous waste disposal, recycling, composting and developing quantitative and qualitative systematic processes assessing the potential impacts of proposed projects and acquisitions.
We look for the best possible outcome for our clients and work back from there.
Our deep relationships with regulatory agencies and key technical staff prove invaluable. And, when necessary, we defend our energy clients in administrative and judicial enforcement actions brought by EPA, states or citizens.
We focus on the following aspects of environmental regulation:
Bloomberg Law | February 18, 2021
San Francisco Affordable Housing & Real Estate partner Alison Torbitt contributed this article on how the California Environmental Protection Agency’s vapor intrusion guidance may impact residential development on the state’s brownfields.
Bloomberg Law | October 26, 2020
The following Bloomberg Law article comprises a two-part, contributed series on the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s transformative regulatory changes on climate change, renewable energy, and emerging contaminants. The articles are written by Albany partner Pete Trimarchi and associate Dana Stanton, and Rochester associate Sarah Lobe, all of the Environmental and Land Use team.
Bloomberg Law | October 23, 2020
The following Bloomberg Law article comprises a two-part, contributed series on the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s transformative regulatory changes on climate change, renewable energy, and emerging contaminants. The articles are written by Albany partner Pete Trimarchi and associate Dana Stanton, and Rochester associate Sarah Lobe, all of the Environmental and Land Use team.
Law360 | November 26, 2018
San Francisco Energy and Environmental partner Alison Torbitt is quoted in this article analyzing the Supreme Court’s decision to return to the Fifth Circuit a key case concerning federal agency authority and landowners’ rights in determinations about land protection.
