Our strong relationships and deep experience give us exceptional credibility with local, state and federal regulators that enables us to streamline environmental assessments, speed cleanups, and acquire permits and approvals quickly.
Kramer Levin’s Environmental lawyers help developers, investors, miners, carbon market participants and companies across industries manage environmental issues so they can focus on improving properties, maintaining efficient operations, building projects, closing transactions and planning their future. In matters involving day-to-day compliance and permitting, contaminated property cleanup, carbon markets, project development, and corporate transactions, we advise clients on ways to minimize risks associated with environmental liability, devise creative solutions to environmental challenges, and ensure compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements. We also advocate on behalf of clients in the courts, before administrative boards, and in agency regulatory and enforcement proceedings.
Our lawyers have strong relationships and deep experience working with local, state and federal regulators — including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection and Department of City Planning. As a result, we have exceptional credibility that often enables us to streamline environmental assessments, speed cleanups, facilitate carbon credit trades, and acquire permits and approvals more quickly than would otherwise be possible.
We help clients with:
Due diligence and environmental impact reviews
Land use, zoning, permits and approvals
Compliance matters
Audits and investigations
Brownfields redevelopment
Site assessment and remediation
Solid waste, landfills and hazardous waste issues
Litigation, including cost recovery litigation under Superfund/CERCLA and state equivalents
Air rights and air quality issues
Clean Water Act, water quality and water rights issues
Toxic substance and pesticide regulation
Workplace health and safety concerns
Green buildings and LEED certification
Environmental aspects of real estate deals, corporate transactions, bankruptcies and restructurings
Advocacy before regulatory bodies and in enforcement proceedings
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