Environmental

Environmental problems are often complex, requiring experience, creativity and technical knowledge. Bingham McHale has a team of responsive veteran attorneys equipped to assist you quickly and effectively in the areas of environmental and natural resources laws. Our attorneys engage in a wide range of environmental litigation and dispute resolution including permit appeal proceedings; actions to recover clean-up costs; governmental, administrative, civil and criminal enforcement actions; citizen suits and toxic tort claims.

We have assisted businesses, financial institutions, nonprofit organizations, municipal governments, state agencies, universities, and individuals with all aspects of environmental regulations. Our senior lawyers have built their reputations serving clients in the areas of permitting, enforcement defense, litigation, insurance coverage disputes, toxic torts, regulatory compliance counseling, remediation, developing impaired real estate, facility siting, environmental risk management, real estate and corporate transactions, project management, and legislative and regulatory negotiations. Our perceptive attorneys can help you with virtually any problem, tapping a vast knowledge base extending across a broad spectrum, including air, wastewater, drinking water, water quality, lake preservation, solid and hazardous wastes, remediation, land use and development, Superfund and cost recovery actions, insurance coverage, animal feeding operations and more.

Whether our clients own a small business, operate a farm, manage environmental compliance for a Fortune 100 company, provide governmental services or are transferring real estate, we can help them tackle environmental legal issues and keep ahead of ever-changing environmental and natural resources laws.

Driven by technical and scientific advances as well as societal and political forces, environmental regulation has rapidly emerged over the past 30 years as a major program. A proliferation of environmental statutes and regulations now impacts almost every business, poses challenges to new economic development and places increasing burdens on local governments. Bingham McHale continues to empower its clients with a competitive advantage by helping them anticipate and navigate this constantly evolving regulatory world.

Contact: Andy Bowman, abowman@binghammchale.com

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