CareersEnvironmental Regulation Enforcement Actions
Litigation
Our Environmental Regulations Enforcement Actions Difference
With our unique blend of skilled, dedicated attorneys, Walter Haverfield proudly delivers the full spectrum of top-line legal services to a dedicated and ever-growing client base.
Areas of environmental law representation include:
- Representing trade associations involved in environmental regulatory programs
- Defending CERCLA “Superfund” liability cases
- Interpreting and applying regulations surrounding the construction and operation of facilities with potential environmental impact
- Defending Clean Air and Clean Water Acts enforcement actions
- Defending environmental nuisance-abatement actions, including pollution, zoning, and building code enforcement
- Managing environmental risk related to real estate and business sale transactions
- Defending disposal of industrial waste and cleanup liability claims
- Workers’ compensation related to environmental exposures
- Defending employee and product liability claims for toxic torts
- Interpreting and guiding clients regarding the Clean Air Act (CAA), Clean Water Act (CWA), Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) regulatory programs
- Lobbying for changes in law and regulations
- Preventing and defending environmental crimes
- Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) permit applications/appeals
- Defending private suits and community right-to-know requests
- Oil and gas regulatory programs
- Defending transportation of hazardous wastes and spill clean-ups
Environmental Regulation Enforcement Actions Team
Experience
- Defending against shutdown orders and abatement of business activities resulting in environmental violations
- Appealing denials and revocations of facility operating licenses and permits
- Appealing unreasonable and/or unlawful terms and conditions in operating licenses and permits
- Negotiating consent orders with the state of Ohio on claimed environmental violations
- Acting as common counsel and chairman of the Steering Committee to responding groups at Superfund sites
- Preparing regulatory and statutory amendments affecting industrial groups
- Negotiating facility expansions with environmental regulators
- Defending against zoning enforcement cases when the state’s general licensing programs preempt local zoning
- Negotiating regulatory guidance publications with state regulators
- Advising industrial clients on regulatory exclusions for waste recycling
- Representing a trade association involved in a waste disposal regulatory program
- Presenting industry positions on regulatory issues to state regulators and the Ohio General Assembly
- Appealing revocation of oil and gas permits to the Ohio Oil & Gas Commission
- Resolving disputes, pre-litigation, between property owners regarding alleged environmental contamination
- Managing small and large environmental remediation projects and litigation involving dozens of sites throughout North America
- Serving as liaison with industry trade groups on a variety of environmental issues
- Defending toxic tort claims involving asbestos and vinyl chloride
- Negotiating a highly technical air permit involving the emission of volatile organic compounds in a non-attainment area
- Obtaining a major arbitration victory for a Fortune 500 company using a detailed and technical evaluation of the site and the client’s activities regarding the clean-up work ordered by the U.S. EPA
- Representing municipalities and public entities in land use disputes involving the solid waste transfer and disposal facilities
- Counseling clients regarding the licensing and operation of solid waste and construction and demolition debris facilities
- Representing groups of companies undertaking environmental dredging projects in the Ashtabula and Ottawa rivers (OH), including negotiation of state and federal consent decrees for past cost claims and natural resource damages
