Practices & industries
Environmental Permitting & Compliance
Overview
Day Pitney helps clients achieve their business objectives and mitigate risks associated with environmental permitting and compliance through our deep knowledge of federal and state environmental statutes and regulations, our understanding of federal and state permitting programs, and our dedication to listening to our clients’ needs, opportunities and challenges. We develop permitting and compliance strategies for light and heavy industry, energy and utilities, construction and development.
Our clients turn to us to evaluate and develop strategies to successfully obtain or amend operating permits, ensure compliance with those permits, and navigate the process when confronting issues of non-compliance. Our expertise includes all major federal environmental programs and state analogs:
- Clean Water Act
- Oil Pollution Act
- Clean Air Act
- Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)
- Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)
- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
- Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
- Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
Our attorneys represent clients in all aspects of environmental compliance matters that may arise from their business and operations, including:
- Crisis management and emergency response actions
- Treatment, storage and disposal of solid and hazardous waste
- Spill reporting, cleanup and remediation
- Air emissions and wastewater discharges
- Wetlands management and mitigation strategies
- Worker safety
- Transportation
- Product registration and safety
- Emerging contaminants
- Environmental Justice
