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Keeping up with constantly changing environmental legislation can be a major challenge for you and your business. Environmental issues affect many industries from mining and manufacturing to transportation and banking and can involve such areas as real estate transactions, insurance coverage and taxes in addition to waste disposal and underground storage tank issues.
In response to the growing concern for environmental issues, Woods Rogers has an Environmental Law Services Team of experienced attorneys from a variety of practice areas to offer both environmental counseling and litigation services.
In order to give you the best advice possible, our Environmental Law Services Team makes it a priority to stay current with important Federal and State developments. We offer you a variety of client counseling services including:
- Statutory interpretation related to compliance assurance
- Compliance assistance and documentation
- Advice concerning reporting requirements
- Financial reporting and other regulatory requirements
- Audit assistance
- Transactional counseling
- Due diligence liability reports for public offerings
- Project financing
- Preventive programs
When preventive measures are not an option, our Environmental Law Services Team will work with you to determine the best solution to your problem. Our dispute resolution services include:
- Negotiation of compliance and penalties regimes
- Negotiation of cleanup and monitoring programs
- Representation in civil enforcement and third-party tort actions
- Cost recovery litigation
- Defense of environmental criminal cases
- Administrative agency cases
- Regulatory proceedings
Each member of our Environmental Law Services Team offers a unique background of experience, which allows us to tailor our services to fit your particular situation, whether it is a real estate, tax, insurance or other environmental matter. Areas of expertise within the group include:
- Ownership and development matters relating to coal, oil, natural gas, timber and other minerals
- Solid, hazardous and medical waste issues
- Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act permit and enforcement proceedings
- RCRA and TSCA proceedings
- CERCLA litigation and negotiations
- Storage tank matters
- Toxic torts
- Insurance coverage issues
- Land transfers and other business transactions
- Contaminated property and Internal Investigations
Paul R. Thomson, Jr. is the chair of the Environmental group.
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