Environmental Practice
Effectively navigating our complex system of environmental laws and policies is essential to making sound decisions in an increasing number of business sectors. In addition to laws regulating air and water quality, hazardous and solid waste management, and cleanup of contaminated property, companies, local governments, and private stakeholders are increasingly interested in achieving sustainability goals and creating value through innovative solutions to environmental challenges. From climate change and carbon management strategies to the development of next-generation clean and renewable energy supplies, environmental issues have never been more important to the way we live and do business.
Thompson O’Brien attorneys have years of experience providing legal counsel on environmental, sustainability and “green” business matters, in strategic, regulatory, policy, and transactional matters involving:
- corporate responsibility and governance policies
- tax and other incentives for renewable energy projects
- challenges and opportunities of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, global warming, and air quality
- sustainable, renewable, and alternative energy sources
- “green,” sustainable building design and construction
- water quality and resource allocation
- regulation of impacts to wetlands and storm water
- “all appropriate inquiry”/environmental issues in real estate and corporate transactions
- brownfield redevelopment and environmental remediation
- hazardous, electronic, and solid wastes
- land conservation and historic preservation
- sustainability and corporate social responsibility (csr) programs