--- title: Environmental Regulation date: 2023-06-12T15:36:00-04:00 author: Import Bot canonical_url: "https://www.kelleydrye.com/practices/environmental-regulation" section: Services --- # Environmental Regulation Kelley Drye advises clients in regulatory matters and transactions, capitalizing on our industry knowledge, environmental experience, and familiarity with the way key risks can evolve into litigation or enforcement actions. ![](https://d3iuizmsm2hayf.cloudfront.net/content/uploads/Hero-Objects/green_marketing_globe.webp?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=1880&q=80&w=1880&s=cf186908bac38c864d24a3f333b93b9a) - About - Team - Honors - Events We draft, analyze, and negotiate environmental indemnity and assumption provisions in a multitude of contexts. Additionally, our attorneys provide environmental and other due diligence analysis for companies contemplating sales and acquisitions. We are able to provide our clients with critical investigative and risk analysis for these important business decisions. On the operational side, our lawyers assist with permits for construction and operation of new air sources, wetlands and water quality certifications, and pipeline construction authorizations, among others. Our experience also extends to counseling clients subject to enforcement under the Clean Water Act and Oil Pollution Act arising from leaks and spills. ### Regulatory Counseling and Response The attorneys at Kelley Drye combine legal experience, practical knowledge, and technical ability to assist clients in effectively navigating an often-complex regulatory process. Environmental practitioners at Kelley Drye provide the full range of regulatory representation to both private- and public-sector clients. Our regulatory attorneys routinely counsel clients on applicability of regulatory requirements, compliance assurance, release reporting and spill response. Kelley Drye helps clients evaluate the need for obtaining permits and, when needed, in securing permits for air emissions, wastewater discharges, and waste generation and disposal. We provide representation in negotiations with federal and state agencies in remediation, permitting, and enforcement matters and in stakeholder proceedings, including submission of formal comments to agency rule making. We work proactively with our clients to minimize environmental risks and maximize practical solutions, including ascertaining relative responsibilities with other responsible parties and governmental agencies and preserving our clients’ rights and privileges in the event of future litigation. We have assisted many clients with developing compliance assurance measures such as audit programs, greenhouse gas (GHG) and other air emissions inventories, preparedness plans for agency inspections, emergency response protocols, due diligence and compliance checklists, and environmental management systems. Unaddressed environmental risks can often lead to penalties or enforcement actions. Our attorneys have the depth of experience to provide strong representation at penalty conferences and administrative hearings and in negotiating consent decrees and administrative settlements. By addressing environmental incidents early and aggressively, we seek to limit our clients’ future costs and exposure. Because of our extensive environmental litigation experience, we know the issues that can arise later in litigation. With this knowledge, we can help clients avoid potential pitfalls and best position themselves during the regulatory process in the event of later litigation. ### Transactions In addition to representing clients in environmental regulatory and litigation matters, our attorneys represent clients in efforts to limit or avoid exposure to environmental problems associated with business transactions. Environmental laws and regulations assign environmental liabilities based on the ownership of land and operation of commercial and industrial facilities. Businesses must factor environmental considerations into their transactions and operations. Because our attorneys regularly litigate environmental matters, we see firsthand the issues that could be avoided or mitigated with proper due diligence and environmental risk management. We have represented a wide variety of clients, including real estate developers, landlords and tenants, manufacturers, governmental agencies and institutional landowners, in transactions involving contaminated properties. The attorneys at Kelley Drye negotiate and facilitate mergers and asset sales and purchases of businesses with environmentally impacted properties or environmentally sensitive operations. The firm’s attorneys have particular experience in property transfer issues, easement and leasehold negotiations, sale and leaseback arrangements, indemnity protections, and the negotiation and administration of property cleanup and remediation agreements. We also work through the due diligence process, including evaluation of Phase I and Phase II reports or other site assessments, and review of permits, operational data and agency records, to ensure all appropriate inquiries are conducted and that transactions are structured to account for environmental liabilities. Similarly, our attorneys work with our clients to develop and implement contractual and regulatory safeguards to environmental risk, including environmental indemnities and warranties, cleanup and remediation agreements, and environmental insurance, as well as participation in state voluntary cleanup programs and federal Brownfields initiatives. In sum, at Kelley Drye, we strive to provide our clients with environmental counsel and guidance over the life of a transaction or business that adds substantial value and reduces long-term operational costs and liabilities. ### Environmental Compliance Counseling Advising clients on compliance with environmental laws and regulations requires a unique set of legal and technical abilities. The attorneys at Kelley Drye have the practical knowledge and technical experience necessary to achieve our clients’ goals within the regulatory process, whether those goals are compliance monitoring and assurance, investigation and reporting of contamination, responding to spills or air releases, monitoring agency investigations, or mitigating penalties and resolving enforcement actions. Many of our attorneys have science or engineering backgrounds, industry experience, or previous tenure with federal and state agencies or nongovernmental organizations, providing a unique understanding of the technical and legal complexities frequently presented in environmental disputes. Our attorneys have years of experience in regulatory compliance, reporting and cleanup of contamination, agency inspections and investigations, and similar environmental issues. When technical investigations are needed, we draw on our technical knowledge and professional relationships to recommend top-quality environmental professionals, assist in developing the scope of investigation, and facilitate the client’s understanding of the results. ### Environmental Justice Kelley Drye’s Environmental Justice practice is comprised of former government environmental attorneys with direct experience advising on, and litigating, environmental justice (EJ) issues. They help clients navigate evolving state and federal EJ policies to mitigate risk, maintain compliance, and foster effective engagement with both regulators and interested communities. EJ is shaped less by federal policy and more by a rapidly expanding, and increasingly complex, network of state‑level laws, screening tools, permitting standards, and judicial decisions. As federal EJ policy undergoes a period of transition, states have accelerated their own EJ initiatives, with more than 30 states passing laws incorporating EJ into their permitting and other processes, creating a regulatory landscape that can vary dramatically by jurisdiction. As states continue to expand EJ requirements, entities will increasingly need to adopt state‑specific regulatory and engagement strategies. Understanding how each jurisdiction defines EJ communities, applies screening tools, and triggers procedural or substantive obligations is essential to reduce permitting timelines and litigation exposure, build community relationships, and ensure long-term project viability. EJ has become a central component of state decision‑making, affecting not just the energy and infrastructure sectors, but transportation, manufacturing, real estate and development, and myriad land use issues. In addition, the rapid and substantial investment in artificial intelligence, and the attendant surge in data center infrastructure, has the potential to raise new EJ concerns relating to community impacts, including land and water use, air quality and noise, and energy prices. For entities operating in such sectors, these rules can be a significant source of operational and legal risk. A growing number of jurisdictions, including Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Michigan, and Virginia, have implemented: - Heightened review requirements - Multilingual community engagement obligations - Mandatory EJ impact analyses - Cumulative‑impact assessments - Permit denial authority based on disproportionate impacts Environmental Justice, whether or not it is explicitly mentioned, plays an increasing role in state level decision making. New Jersey’s first in the nation EJ permitting law, upheld on appeal, highlights how these state mandates are becoming deeply embedded in administrative law. States such as Colorado and Virginia also apply increased scrutiny to fossil fuel and energy sector projects, while others, like Pennsylvania, have proposed that data center development must account for, and disclose information to, impacted communities. This continuous expansion of state activity emphasizes the need for a proactive approach. Kelley Drye’s Environmental Justice team is prepared to: - Advise on facility siting and expansion efforts - Identify affected communities with EJ concerns - Create proactive community engagement plans - Respond to EJ-related community concerns raised during permitting processes - Engage with federal and state-level regulators during stakeholder opportunities through meetings and formal comments - Evaluate and advise on advertising claims related to EJ - Where necessary, litigate claims pursuant to state and federal environmental and civil rights laws before both administrative tribunals and state and federal courts ### Contaminated Real Estate Transactions At Kelley Drye, our environmental transactional attorneys bring decades of experience in sorting out and effectively dealing with the complications that contamination presents in a real estate transaction. Kelley Drye identifies environmental risk and adds significant value in corporate and real estate transactions. Because multiple environmental laws and regulations assign environmental liability based on ownership status, businesses must consider environmental risks to effectively value corporate and real estate transactions. We have long represented clients, including government and institutional landowners, landlords and tenants, operators, and real estate developers, in transactions involving potentially contaminated properties. We have extensive experience in negotiating and drafting environmental components of purchase and sale agreements and commercial leases, environmental indemnities, remediation agreements, access agreements, and consulting services contracts to address issues identified during environmental due diligence. We also can assist clients with evaluating environmental insurance products to address unknown environmental risks. 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