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Practice/Industry Group Overview
Our Environmental Practice Group attorneys help individuals, businesses, and local governments achieve compliance with all applicable environmental and land use laws, leading to a safer and cleaner environment.
We serve environmental clients in three major areas. The first is permitting and regulatory counseling. Our attorneys guide clients through identifying applicable regulations, complying with new regulations, reporting environmental impacts, assessing potential environmental liability, responding to enforcement actions, dealing with zoning and land use regulations, gaining adoption of environmental legislation, and obtaining permits for facilities of all types, such as steel mills, manufacturing plants, farm operations, bulk cargo port facilities, residential developments, marinas, hotels, food processing plants, waste incinerators, and numerous other developments. In addition, with the increase in residential and commercial development in eastern North Carolina on the coastal shorelines, our environmental attorneys regularly counsel clients on CAMA permitting matters affecting the use and enjoyment of water-front property.
The second area in which we serve clients is environmental litigation. We represent clients in cases to determine property contamination liability, resolve environmental disputes, litigate clients' rights regarding the environment, and pursue administrative litigation to appeal permit decisions, respond to unfavorable regulatory actions, and defend against agency and citizen suit enforcement actions.
The third area in which we serve clients is business and commercial real estate transactions. Our attorneys handle sales and purchases of companies, company assets, and property, and we devise practical solutions to environmental problems. Today, virtually every business or real estate transaction includes environmental issues; we help identify what environmental liabilities exist and counsel clients on how risks can best be minimized and allocated among the parties.
Environmental Practice Group attorneys are experienced environmental professionals. They know the many environmental requirements and agency "vest pocket policies" facing clients. One of our attorneys has been included in the publication The Best Lawyers in America- since 1995 and one has been selected as "Legal Elite" by Business North Carolina in 2005, 2007, and 2008. We also know the regulators, citizens' groups, consultants, and other professionals involved in environmental issues, and we deal with all state and federal regulatory agencies. Our clients, whether plaintiffs or defendants, include banks, businesses, developers, educational institutions, farmers, hospitals, individuals, landowners, major industries, small-business owners, state and local governments, and trade organizations.
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