環境、安全和健康
Our experience in dealing with the legal ramifications of environmental issues has grown right along with the increase in government regulation and industry awareness. Squire Sanders has a seasoned and diverse environmental practice group. Our environmental practice began before the US Environmental Protection Agency was formed, back when the government’s principal regulatory tools were the public nuisance doctrine for air pollution and the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 for water pollution. This history and the nature of clients’ requirements have led us to draw principally on lawyers with litigation experience to build our environmental practice area.
While remaining at the forefront of environmental law in the
United States, we have developed special expertise in the international arena, serving the global environmental needs of clients in Europe,
Asia and Latin America. We closely monitor developments in environmental issues within the European Union. Many of the environmental laws adopted by European countries and institutions are modeled after corresponding laws in the
United States. Thus, US-based Squire Sanders lawyers are well positioned to provide valuable insights and to work closely with lawyers in our European offices to provide clients with the best advice possible.
With the assistance of our White Collar Defense & Investigations Group, we represent companies and individuals in alleged criminal violations of state and federal environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Toxic Substance and Control Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
法律事業組擅長的範疇
案例研究
When The Landon Companies (Agripartners), owner of a large tract of undeveloped land between Naples and Fort Myers, needed expertise in Endangered Species Act (ESA) litigation, they turned to Squire Sanders for help. In 2003, two environmental groups...
Situation:Cedar Fair, L.P., learned that CBS intended to sell its five US and Canadian Paramount amusement parks through an auction process. If Cedar Fair were able to acquire these parks, it could approximately double its holdings.Challenge:Cedar Fa...
Squire Sanders negotiated a highly complex settlement providing for one of the biggest brownfield cleanups in New York State history. Since 1999, our client, a US steelmaker, had been defending various environmental counterclaims asserted by th...
For more than five years, Squire Sanders defended our client in a major Superfund private-party cost recovery action. The plaintiffs – a consortium of 22 companies that had been forced by US EPA to clean up an illegal chemical dump site at an alleged...
Squire Sanders obtained complete injunctive relief and an award of attorney’s fees following an expedited bench trial in a RCRA citizen suit action against a privately held chain of more than 500 gas-convenience stores. The court granted our client,...
In an environmental/property rights case for DuPont, similar to one in which plaintiffs had already obtained royalty payments of approximately US$500,000 a year for decades from another entity, our client was being sued by the same plaintiffs for US$...
When our client, a Fortune 500 manufacturer, was denied insurance coverage for environmental cleanup costs, our litigation and environmental lawyers teamed up with the client’s engineers to file lawsuits against three separate insurance carriers. Thr...