Practice Areas & Industries: Holland & Hart LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

We advise clients on a wide variety of air quality issues under the U.S. Clean Air Act and various state and local clean air laws throughout the United States. Firm air lawyers handle permitting of major sources, the complex interaction of federal and state law and agencies, the requirements of Federal and State Implementation Plans and regulations, compliance with hazardous air pollutant requirements, visibility, "regional haze," interstate pollutant transport, air quality modeling, emissions monitoring and emissions trading.

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Our air lawyers have been involved in cutting edge air quality issues, including the formulation of the original PSD program and some of the very first Acid Rain allowance transactions under Title IV of the Clean Air Act. Holland & Hart has successfully represented defendants in several of the largest enforcement actions brought by EPA, as well as in citizens' suits. In addition, we work closely with air agencies in several states, representing industry coalitions, in the development of federal and state air quality rules.

Our air lawyers serve on advisory groups to government and industry, teach air quality law at various law schools, and write and lecture extensively on air quality issues.

Our clients include some of the country's largest resources, energy and manufacturing companies. Among our air lawyers are nationally recognized authorities on air quality law.

Holland & Hart's air quality practice is among the largest and most experienced in the nation. It remains deeply involved in the development of air quality law and regulation nationally and throughout the Rocky Mountain West.