Our lawyers have experience in all aspects of environmental litigation including:
- CERCLA (cost recovery and contribution)
- RCRA-related actions
- NEPA
- Clean Water Act (EPA rules, relating to permits)
- Air Quality (challenges to SIPs, relating to permits)
- Endangered Species Act
- Historical Preservation Act
- Citizen Suits and Private Attorney General Actions
- Nuisance/Trespass Actions
- Toxic Tort, including Class Actions
- Insurance Coverage
- State EPA enforcement actions
- BLM and U.S. Forest Service land decisions and planning
Our recent Environmental and Natural Resources Litigation work includes:
- Representing a client in a federal lawsuit against the state engineer of Nevada for violations of substantive and procedural due process.
- Representing clients in CERCLA and RCRA cost recovery.
- Representing insurers in environmental liability cases and coverage disputes.
- Defending companies in toxic tort cases and product liability cases.
- Representing the country's largest copper mining company in toxic tort and environmental litigation in a complex, multiple-party series of cases that lasted nearly two decades, including two interlocutory appeals and defense against a class action, with a settlement achieved as the case was being prepared for trial.
- Representing a major jet plane manufacturer in environmental litigation focusing mostly on complex issues relating to corporate successorship, achieving a highly favorable settlement after filing a successful motion for summary judgment following years of discovery.
- Representing one of Arizona's largest cities in a complex case involving issues relating to the construction and maintenance of a landfill, resulting in a highly favorable settlement before trial, following the filing of several dispositive motions.
- Representing a sand and gravel producer in appealing an enforcement action involving an air quality permit issue.
- Representing a water company in an action brought by the Bureau of Land Management where we convinced the regulatory agency that our client was not required to obtain a supplemental EIS permit—saving the client millions of dollars and allowing their project to go forward.
- Successfully defending a water company in an appeal against several environmental groups alleging NEPA violations involving our client's pipeline project.
- Representing electric utility in litigation challenging EPA action on Regional Haze SIP.
- Representing an Oil and Gas trade group in opposition to environmental litigation against state oil and gas agency that refused to begin rulemaking.