Environmental
Environmental regulations impact nearly every business. At Howard & Howard, we've assembled legal experts from all disciplines that have the experience, judgment, creativity and vision to shepherd your company through the maze of environmental statutes and rules — from the ground up. We work as a team -- for you.
Environmental services include:
- Administrative review, litigation and appeals
- Due diligence/mergers and acquisitions/real estate/lending transactions
- Environmental and workplace risk management
- Civil Penalty, tort, permit compliance and CERCLA litigation
- Criminal defense and grand jury representation
- Air, water and waste permitting and compliance
- Wetlands permitting and compliance
- Right to know compliance
- EPCRA and SARA Title III compliance
- Record retention and reporting requirements
- Brownfields redevelopment
- Environmental management systems
- Government relations
- Pollution control tax abatements
Howard & Howard can help clients before a crisis happens. We can help after a penalty has been imposed - and at every stage in between.
Regardless of the size of your issue — or its complexity — we deliver a high-quality, on-time work product at a lower price than law firms with our expertise that provide comparable environmental services.
We’re proud of the broad range of innovative work we’ve done on behalf of our clients, which includes:
- Successfully defended a Fortune 50 company against a $15 million CERCLA liability claim.
- Reduced penalties in an enforcement action under the Clean Air Act by more than 750,000 dollars.
- Negotiated a multi-site consent decree allowing a Fortune 500 manufacturer to divest itself of the excess industrial properties.
- Defended a citizen’s suit challenge to a state-issued mining permit.
- Worked to redevelop millions of dollars worth of Brownfield property on behalf of multiple clients.
- Negotiated a settlement to upgrade a POTW, resolving a Clean Water Act enforcement action, saving taxpayers money and avoiding substantial penalties for the client.
- Challenged EPA rulemaking in the federal circuits on behalf of industry coalitions.
- Crafted a permit and consent judgment to resolve claims under the Clean Air Act against a major stationary source.
- Successfully defended a Fortune 100 company in a 4 year criminal grand jury investigation, resulting in no indictment or liability for the company.
How we work for you
Howard & Howard is one of a few firms in the Midwest with a national environmental practice.
- Howard & Howard’s environmental attorneys have more than 100 years of collective expertise.
- Our environmental attorneys represent clients ranging in size from large multi-national corporations to sole proprietor service companies.
- Howard & Howard attorneys monitor developing environmental issues to anticipate changes in the laws and regulations for their clients.
- Howard & Howard’s environmental experts regularly play an integral role in shaping the law for the industry.
Howard & Howard’s environmental attorneys approach every project with the following goals in mind:
- Facilitate client objectives.
- Find creative solutions.
- Produce top-quality work.
- Resolve each issue in a timely, cost-effective manner.
- Help clients achieve their next level of success with maximum profitability.
