Gust Rosenfeld brings together years of experience in the evaluation, analysis, management, and litigation of environmental matters. Our clients include landowners, developers, school districts, cities and towns, irrigation districts and business entities that are confronted with the complex and often intimidating array of environmental laws, rules and regulations on the federal, state and local level. We provide advice in connection with issues such as water quality, solid and hazardous waste, Superfund liability and remediation activities.
Matters in which our environmental attorneys have been involved include:
- acquiring, developing or renovating contaminated properties
- brownfield regulations
- environmental due diligence for real estate purchases, including “all appropriate inquiry” regulations
- environmental permits and challenges
- environmental risk assessment analysis
- development of rules and standards for the reuse of reclaimed water
- federal and state air quality issues
- federal and state water quality issues
- federal Clean Water Act Section 404 (wetlands) permitting and enforcement
- federal, state, county and city enforcement actions
- federal Superfund, CERCLA and state Water Quality Assurance Revolving Fund (WQARF) issues
- intergovernmental agreements for water and sewer treatment plants
- insurance disputes related to pollution and coverage issues
- toxic tort litigation
- underground and aboveground storage tanks, including leaking underground storage tanks (LUST) issues