Environmental Law |  | |
Our environmental lawyers offer in-depth expertise in national, regional and state issues arising in environmental permitting, compliance, enforcement and litigation involving:
- Clean Air Act
- Clean Water Act
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
- Solid Waste Disposal Act
- Comprehensive Environmental Response
- Compensation and Liability Act, including the 2002 Brownfield Amendments
- Hazardous Materials Transportation Act
- Occupational Safety and Health Act
- Oil Pollution Act
- USA PATRIOT Act
- Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act.
Our environmental team also provides expert counsel in business transactions involving contaminated property, including due diligence, environmental indemnifications, insurance, remediation actions, access agreements and permit transfers.
The diversity of our experience and client base speaks highly of the expert technical skills and knowledge of our attorneys. McAfee & Taft attorneys have experience representing clients of all types and sizes, including oil and natural gas exploration sites, real estate developments and construction sites, concentrated animal feeding operations, hazardous waste fuel blenders, hazardous waste combusting cement kilns and incinerators, oil and other hazardous material recyclers, power plants and steel mills, petroleum marketers and distributors, underground storage tank owners and operators, PRP entities for Superfund sites, a wide variety of manufacturers, wood treaters, quarry operations and gravel mills, demolition contractors, hospitals, bakeries, convenience stores, and metal, waste and chemical recycling facilities.
The Firm has substantial experience in energy-related pollution cases and works nationwide in all types of environmental litigation. It is aided by lawyers degreed in technical areas with extensive prior experience as staff of federal environmental enforcement agencies. Litigation in Superfund cases and cases involving asbestos removal has honed the Firm’s trial practice in environmental litigation.