The Landreth Law Firm has engaged in a wide variety of environmental and natural resource law matters for numerous clients over the years. Expertise in working on environmental issues affecting all “media” is in many instances coupled with scientific educational backgrounds that assist clients and consultants in making sure that the best technical case can be presented. Of primary importance to the Landreth Law Firm is how we can manage a matter to best meet the business and cost objectives of our clients.
Our work history includes representation of domestic airlines, airlines fuel consortiums, oil and gas exploration, production and transportation companies (including petrochemical subsidiaries), electric and gas utilities, and a variety of industrial and manufacturing clients. Our backgrounds also reflect work in the public sector for local, state and federal agencies.
Among many other areas, our experiences include:
- Negotiation and development of environmental agreements with private parties, state and municipal authorities and management of risk-based cleanup activities associated with upgrade and expansion of commercial jet aircraft fueling systems at international airports
- Redevelopment of contaminated properties, including heavy industrial, commercial, retail, and transportation facilities
- Auditing, risk management and compliance counseling on air and water issues for entities with multi-state operations
- Defense of environmental claims against energy companies associated with exploration and production, terminal, refining and pipeline facilities, including air, water and soil contamination issues
- Drafting, interpretation, implementation, prosecution and defense of indemnification obligations associated with environmental claims
- Administrative litigation regarding NEPA issues on federal lands
- Multi-media environmental compliance and defense for a large electric and gas utility company, including significant legacy liability issues and complex litigation against historic CGL insurance carriers for environmental claim coverage
- Defense of class action lawsuits against oil, gas, and energy companies for environmental damages
- Federal and state claims for natural resource damages
- Representation of Potentially Responsible Parties in Superfund enforcement actions, cost recovery and contribution litigation, and cost allocation negotiations and mediations
- Representation of plaintiffs and defendants in federal citizen suit actions under the Clean Water Act, CERCLA (Superfund), the Oil Pollution Act, and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
- Environmental due diligence for corporate mergers and acquisitions
- Environmental aspects of land use planning, including compliance with ESA, NEPA and state law equivalents and a variety of permitting and site operation and development issues
- Issues related to wetland impacts and mitigation
- Defense of OSHA enforcement actions and proactive evaluation of policies related to health and safety issues
For confidentiality reasons, the Landreth Law Firm has chosen to not provide the names of the entities that it represents. Please contact the firm directly and we can provide that information as appropriate.