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Practice Areas
Experience
Gregg provides clients with advice on environmental
requirements and obligations and assistance with recovery
of environmental costs. He has significant experience
performing environmental due diligence for real estate
purchase and leasing transactions and dealing with issues
associated with the cleanup, purchase, sale and development
of contaminated properties, such as the negotiation
and drafting of contracts and contractual provisions
to address responsibility for investigation, cleanup
and indemnity. Gregg has assisted clients with the coordination
of environmental consultants, negotiations with environmental
agencies and efforts to obtain financing and insurance
for contaminated property. Gregg is also experienced
in all stages of litigation, up to and including trial,
with emphasis in the areas of environmental and business
lawsuits. He has worked on several cases at the appellate
level.
Prior to practicing law, Gregg spent six years working
for the Environment, Health and Safety Department of
Texaco Refining and Marketing, Inc. as a chemical engineer.
While there, he gained experience developing compliance
programs for California and Federal OSHA Process Safety
Management and Risk Management and Prevention Program
regulations. He participated with compliance investigations
and the subsequent actions, handled applications for
air permits, Title V permitting, emission reporting,
applications for emission reduction credits, CERCLA
and EPCRA reporting requirements, as well as spill response
and clean-up requirements. At that time, he was also
active on several technical committees for the Western
States Petroleum Association.
Gregg's litigation experience includes CERCLA cost
recovery, nuisance and toxic tort, business disputes,
employment discrimination and Americans with Disabilities
Act matters. Gregg has handled government inspections,
obtained permits and variances and settled notices of
violations issued under of a wide variety of environmental,
health and safety standards, including the California
Accidental Release Prevention program, the federal Clean
Air Act, state and federal Occupational Safety and Health
Administration standards and rules and regulations adopted
by the California Air Resources Board and various Air
Quality Management Districts. He has lectured on risk
management planning under the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments
and on regulations for the permitting, use and reimbursement
for remediation of contamination from petroleum underground
storage tanks.
Admissions
- State Bar of California
- United States District Court, Northern and Central
Districts of California
- United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Affiliations
Publications
- "Finally, a Practical Approach to Evaluating
Potential Vapor-Intrusion Problems in Real Estate
Transactions," co-author with Jonathan W. Redding,
California Real Estate Journal, March 24, 2008
- "AB
32 DOES WHAT? The Spillover from CA's Global Warming
Law to Landowners, Developers, Landlords and Tenants,"
The Wendel Report, Winter 2008
- "New
Vapor Intrusion Legislation and Industry Standards
Will Increase Costs and Time for Real Estate Transactions,"
Wendel Rosen Client Alert, December 14, 2007
- "Vapor Intrusion:
New Focus for Due Diligence," co-author with
Jonathan W. Redding, Brownfield News, June
2007
- "Environmental
Liability Protection for Tenants," co-author
with Jonathan W. Redding, Area Development,
February/ March 2007
- "California
UST Fund Facilitates Brownfield Cleanup" co-author
with Jonathan W. Redding, Brownfield News,
October 2006
- "Strategies
for Cost Recovery and Development after Cooper
v. Aviall," co-author with Jonathan W. Redding,
Brownfield News, October 2006
Speaking
- "Land
Use Law: Current Issues in Subdivision, Annexation
and Zoning," co-presenter with Bruce S. Flushman,
National Business Institute, December 12, 2007
"Underground Storage Tanks," Northwestern
Environmental Training Center, February 8, 2006
- " Emerging Issues in Environmental Law: Concerns
and Remedies," Advanced Commercial Real Estate
Leases, Law Seminars International, November 5, 2007
Education
- Loyola Law School; J.D., cum laude (1996)
- Long Beach State University; B.S., Chemical Engineering
(1991)
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