BakerHostetler’s Environmental Team ‘is responsive, skilled, and tailors legal needs to specific circumstances to achieve positive resolutions.’
– Legal 500 2018
Clients choose our Environmental team for our skill and experience in a broad array of subject matters including environmental regulations, permitting, litigation, transactions, health and safety, risk management, and more. Our multifaceted team, with offices across the country, provides a sophisticated federal practice coupled with a robust understanding of complex state and local issues. We are a one-stop shop for our clients.
We focus on solving our clients’ business-critical issues with a collaborative, responsive approach tailored to each matter. Our sector experience includes coal, steel, chemical and heavy-equipment manufacturing, recycling, mining and refining, and a wide range of energy-related issues. Our Environmental team has been recognized as national Practice Group of the Year by Law360, among other awards. We are nationally known for our experience in the Clean Air Act and the defense of citizen suit claims arising under the environmental statutes, and we are often engaged at the start of large-scale projects to assist clients to successfully maneuver through the permitting process, including appeals and defense against challenges. We are one of only a handful of practices across the nation that has successfully gained permits for facilities requiring prevention of significant deterioration Clean Air Act permits in recent years as well as successfully defended both administrative and judicial appeals regarding these permits, in both state and federal tribunals. In addition, we have significant experience regarding site cleanup, contract disputes and allocation of environmental liabilities arising under CERCLA and RCRA. We are also at the forefront of emerging environmental issues and risks, including the investigation and remediation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), and are advising clients on the rapidly changing landscape of product stewardship.