Holland & Hart LLP

Holland & Hart’s Climate Change Team includes lawyers from a variety of practice areas dealing with climate change legal issues. Holland & Hart has deep experience in natural resources, environmental compliance, energy, project development, and business law. The Climate Change Team's lawyers have close ties and strong working relationships with major companies, consultancies, and government agencies. Although the firm's practice is centered in the western United States, the Climate Change Team's lawyers handle climate change issues throughout the world.

Major Practice Areas

Energy Projects. Holland & Hart represents major energy developers, including coal, oil, and gas, electric generation, electric transmission, gas pipeline, oil refining, nuclear fuel cycle, and mining companies. Our counsel on the structure and terms of energy development projects entails consideration of climate change issues.

Energy Users. Holland & Hart is counsel to major industrial users of energy and fuels, which are significant sources of greenhouse gases.

Regulatory Compliance. Our team has extensive experience with environmental regulation and compliance at all levels of government and provides counsel regarding the applicability of and compliance with greenhouse gas regulations.

Renewable Energy. We are one of the world's leaders in wind energy development. We also represent developers of biofuels, geothermal resources, and hydroelectric facilities and are actively involved in transmission infrastructure projects to facilitate the delivery of renewable energy to major load centers.

Green Building. Holland & Hart’s construction and real estate lawyers provide counsel to developers and contractors regarding sustainable building and design, renewable energy, green management, and LEED certification. The team includes LEED accredited professional resources.

Corporate Governance. Members of the Climate Change Team are called upon to assist management and directors in developing corporate climate change policies and responding to demands for disclosure and assessment of the climate change impacts of corporate operations.

Carbon Markets. Climate Change Team lawyers have advised clients on participation in emissions trading in North America, Latin America, Europe, and China.

Litigation. Our litigators have dealt with climate change-related claims in a variety of contexts, including claims for damage from catastrophic climate events, litigation relating to the scope of government authority to regulate greenhouse gases, and the assessment of climate change impacts from proposed federal actions under the National Environmental Policy Act.

Government Relations. Our Climate Change Team lawyers are involved in development of climate change policy at every level of government.
 

Holland & Hart's Statement of Commitment to Diversity
We are proud of our tradition of fostering and maintaining a work environment in which the diversity of each individual is valued and celebrated. We believe that the contributions of each individual are essential to our continued growth and to our ultimate goal of providing excellent quality legal services to our clients, with greater creativity and innovation. We are committed to taking full advantage of the rich backgrounds and abilities of our people and to promoting a greater diversity whenever and wherever possible.

Diversity Pledge
Holland & Hart is committed to promoting diversity by:

• Making every possible effort to recruit, hire, retain, and promote diverse persons at all levels of employment.
• Promoting greater sensitivity to the value of racial, ethnic and other forms of diversity, through diversity and sensitivity coaching or training for law firm members.
• Inviting to partnership diverse attorneys who meet the requisite criteria.

Diversity Initiatives
The following are additional examples of our commitment and efforts toward supporting and achieving diversity:

• We make a conscious effort to ensure that women and diverse attorneys are included as voting members of our committees of importance within the firm.
• We work closely with law school deans and placement directors in an effort to identify women and diverse law students who are interested in working at Holland & Hart.
• Holland & Hart offers medical and other benefits to partners of gay and lesbian employees on the same terms as it does to spouses of employees.
• We created an Indian Law Practice Group and actively recruited Native American law students and lateral hires.
• Each year we contribute to such scholarship funds as the Colorado Native American Indian Scholarship Fund, the Sam Cary Scholarship Endowment Fund, the Colorado Asian American Bar Scholarship Fund, the Colorado Hispanic Bar Scholarship Fund, and the Colorado Women's Bar Association Scholarship Fund.
• In partnership with the University of Idaho School of Law, we sponsor a "Law by Day, Jazz by Night" each year for undergraduate minority students who have an interest in law.
• We took a leadership role in organizing and supporting the Colorado Pledge Group's Minority First Year Law Student Summer Clerk Program. Through this program, law firms agreed to add at least one diverse first year law student to their summer clerk program.
• We were involved in the creation of the Cross-Professional Business Networking Group, where diverse attorneys in our community can meet and network with non-attorney professionals of color. We view this as a way to help diverse attorneys increase their business development possibilities.

For more information regarding Holland & Hart's commitment to diversity, please contact Peter Houtsma at (303) 295-8259.