McAfee & Taft’s Environmental Practice is an excellent resource for all facets of environmental law that arise in the normal course of business and corporate transactions of all kinds. The firm’s lawyers include recognized experts in the field that draw on prior careers in the fields of regulation and policy development, industrial permitting and compliance, and environmental remediation. McAfee & Taft’s expertise has proven especially adaptable to recent developments in environmental and energy law, including the profound impacts of greenhouse gas emission regulation, including uncertainty in future power infrastructure and water resources, as they effect current business models.
Representative Experience
- Provides counsel to applicants for air, hazardous waste, and water/stormwater, wetlands permits and NEPA review.
- Representation of parties to environmental real estate transactions and corporate acquisitions.
- Representation of affected parties in state and federal enforcement actions, rulemaking, and adjudicatory proceedings pursuant to state and federal air, hazardous waste, solid waste, water/stormwater, underground storage tank, wetlands and voluntary remediation regulatory programs.
Representative Clients
- Metal fabrication and coatings facilities
- Weapons destruction contractors for the Department of the Army
- Ethanol manufacturing plants
- Oil and natural gas exploration sites
- Oil field services facilities
- Construction sites
- Concentrated animal feeding operations
- Hazardous waste fuel waste blenders
- Hazardous waste combusting cement kilns and incinerators
- Oil and other hazardous material recyclers
- Power plants
- Steel mills
- Petroleum marketers, distributors and bulk storage plants
- Developers of contaminated property under voluntary cleanup
regulations and Brownfields
- PRP entities for Superfund sites (remediation plan development
and liability allocation)
- Automobile, pulp and paper, specialty chemical,
pharmaceutical, pesticide, and fertilizer manufacturers
- Wood treaters
- Metal, solid waste, and chemical recycling facilities
- Quarry operations and gravel mills
- Demolition contractors
- Hospitals
- Bakeries
- Real estate developments
- Convenience stores
- Underground storage tank owners and operators
- Wind turbine manufacturers
- Waste tire recyclers