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Services Available
The goal of our Environmental Practice Group is to resolve the environmental challenges that face our clients in a cost-effective manner, using negotiation, mediation, compliance planning, regulatory or legislative changes, and, where necessary, litigation. Our attorneys provide environmental counseling to a wide range of businesses and industries, including manufacturing, mining, oil and gas development and transmission, forestry, banking and lending, and retail establishments. Through extensive experience of our lawyers, our firm is able to provide regional representation on environmental matters. The areas covered by our Environmental Practice Group include: - Environmental permit negotiations and appeals
- Defense of civil environmental enforcement actions before trial courts and administrative tribunals
- Development and implementation of legal strategies for clearing contaminated sites through Brownfields' programs
- Air emissions regulation and permitting
- Hazardous and solid waste management regulatory programs
- Community right-to-know requirements
- Human health and ecological risk assessment applications
- Federal and state Superfund and remediation laws
- Surface water quality regulation, stormwater and NPDES permits
- Groundwater quality standards and groundwater pollution prevention plans
- Asbestos, lead, mercury, PCBs, dioxin and other hazardous or toxic materials
- Permitting of mining operations and reclamation activities
- Due diligence investigations with regard to mergers and acquisitions
- Counseling municipalities and other governmental entities regarding environmental compliance
- Investigation and remediation of contaminated sites
- Defense of civil environmental enforcement actions before trial courts and administrative tribunals
- Defense of criminal investigations and indictments charging environmental crimes
- Strategic planning and permitting of commercial solid waste facilities
- Leaking underground storage tank liability litigation and defense of administrative orders
- Oil and gas permitting, regulatory compliance, and defense of enforcement actions
Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC has a long tradition of providing satisfactory resolutions to our clients' environmental challenges. For more information regarding our environmental practice, contact: Allyn G. Turner
304.340.3856
aturner@spilmanlaw.com
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