Practice

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Environmental

Expanded Description

Brownfield Redevelopment Practice
  • Prospective purchaser agreements

  • Covenants not to sue and comfort letters

  • Baseline environmental assessments and due care requirements

  • Funding under the Clean Michigan Fund

  • Brownfield redevelopment zones

  • Development agreements

  • Cost recovery analysis


    • Administrative Practice
  • Clean Air Act

    • - Permitting
    - Enforcement defense
  • Clean Water Act

    • - NPDES, Pretreatment and Stormwater Permitting
    - Enforcement defense
  • Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act ("CERCLA" or "Superfund"): National Superfund Practice

    • - Common counsel at many sites throughout the Midwest
    - Involvement at more than 60 sites
    - De minimis and de micromis settlements
  • Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

    • - Permits
    - Enforcement defense
    - Corrective action
  • Michigan Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act

    • - Part 201 (Environmental Response) issues and compliance
    - BEA and Due Care compliance
    - Part 211 (Hazardous Waste)
    - Part 213 (Underground Storage Tanks)
  • Solid Waste Issues

  • Wetlands and Permitting


    • Environmental Litigation
  • Defense of cost recovery actions (federal, state, and private)

  • Prosecution of private cost recovery actions

  • Defense of citizen suits

  • Defense of enforcement actions

  • Insurance litigation

  • Toxic Tort Actions

  • Property diminution claims

  • Wetlands

    • - Carabell v. U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, 126 S. Ct. 2208 (2006) limiting scope of Clean Water Act jurisdiction

    Commercial Transactions and Financing
  • Counseling for the purchase, sale, lease, and financing of real estate

  • Baseline environmental assessments

  • Assessment of liabilities associated with mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures

  • Site assessment review


    • Compliance Counseling
  • Counseling on all media (air, water, waste, USTs, OSHA, recordkeeping, etc.)

  • Development of environmental policies and procedures

  • Compliance audits and counseling

  • Audit privilege

  • Preparation for inspections

  • Waste disposal auditing


    • Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
  • Allocation consultant or mediation services

  • Representation in allocation negotiations and related proceedings

  • Alternative dispute resolution with U.S. EPA


    • For more information, please contact:
    Margaret A. Coughlin
    248-433-7272 or mcoughlin@dickinsonwright.com