Environmental and Natural Resources
Environmental regulation is an important concern to almost all businesses and industries, but environmental requirements are often difficult to understand and even harder to implement.
Christian & Barton offers a comprehensive menu of environmental legal services to assist its clients in a variety of administrative, legislative, and litigation settings to meet business, municipal and transactional needs:
Routine compliance assistance
Enforcement action defense and negotiation
Permit planning and negotiations
Due diligence for real estate, business and lending transactions
Regulatory and legislative advocacy
Litigation
Environmental services contracting
Internal audit oversight
Environmental management program development
Public participation and “stakeholder” representation
Our lawyers have developed expertise in dealing with specific state and federal environmental programs, including those addressing:
Wastewater collection and discharges (municipal and industrial)
Stormwater discharges and management
Solid and hazardous waste management and disposal
Wetlands (tidal and nontidal)
Air pollution
Storage tanks
Groundwater and surface water contamination
Brownfield clean up and redevelopment
Superfund
Public and private water supply and planning
Historic and cultural resources
Asbestos and lead-based paint abatement
Worker and community right-to-know discharges
Endangered species
Our experience includes working with the EPA, the Army Corps of Engineers, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Chesapeake Bay Local Assistance Department, the Virginia Department of Health and various regulatory agencies in Virginia and other states. Christian & Barton lawyers have also served on state and local environmental committees that benefit the community at large, speak at educational and industry functions, and have held leadership positions with bar environmental sections.
Christian & Barton has the experience and practical expertise that business, industry, local governments and individuals seek to address successfully the unique environmental issues they face.