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Environmental Practice
Wendel Rosen is home to a talented team of environmental
lawyers. The attorneys in this group handle matters for both
public and private sector clients on a variety of complex
regulatory, permitting, due diligence, remediation, negotiation
and litigation matters. Frequently dealing with local, state
and federal regulatory bodies, the team helps clients to navigate
projects through this highly technical landscape.
Clients of this practice include commercial and residential
real estate developers, public entities and redevelopment
agencies, construction companies, and real property buyers
and sellers, as well as companies from industrial, agricultural,
chemical, pharmaceutical, high-technology, retail and manufacturing
industries.
Typical matters handled by the firm's
environmental attorneys include:
- Real estate transactions
- Corporate due diligence regarding environmental issues
for asset and business sales
- Brownfields and development of environmentally impaired
property
- Environmental advice for auto service stations, properties
and dealerships
- Underground storage tanks compliance, closure and reimbursements
from state fund
- Solid and hazardous waste landfills
- Wetlands and endangered species
- CEQA and NEPA compliance
- Air, water and hazardous waste compliance and permitting
- CERCLA and cost recovery litigation
- Resources Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
- Environmental insurance coverage, claims analysis and
cleanup cost recovery
- Proposition 65 compliance and defense
- Citizens' suits
- Emergency planning, community right-to-know and occupational
safety
The attorneys are also experienced in dealing with unusual
circumstance matters, such as special interests regarding
environmental concerns during bankruptcy proceedings.
We have a "can-do" approach.
Along the Oakland estuary and waterfront, we have assisted
parties with the remediation of contaminated areas and the
recovery of associated costs, as well as with lawsuits and
administrative actions. One of the largest basic chemical
and agricultural chemical manufacturers in the world has used
Wendel Rosen attorneys with respect to CERCLA claims on numerous
sites in California and Hawaii, including the successful recovery
of response costs against the United States Government.
Other clients include one of the largest agricultural cooperatives
in the country, several publicly traded real estate investment
trusts, an asphalt roof shingle manufacturer, a permitted
recycling facility for dry-cleaning waste solvents, the second
largest car dealership in the United States, several scrap
metal facilities, and a nonprofit farmlands and open space
foundation. The firm also represents several individuals and
small partnerships, primarily those who own or purchase real
property and seek advice about the liabilities they have inherited
or would like to avoid.
Wendel Rosen attorneys take a "can-do" approach,
looking for practical solutions to accomplish each client's
business goals.
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