Environmental Law

Potter Anderson & Corroon represents businesses and individuals in environmental matters involving all of the major state and federal environmental laws and regulatory programs.  Our environmental practice includes litigation in the state and federal courts and before administrative agencies.  In our Environmental and Real Estate/Land Use practices, we also help our clients to achieve and maintain compliance with the many environmental requirements that affect business operations every day. Our focus is on anticipating environmental issues, avoiding problems before they arise, and where feasible, working cooperatively with regulatory agencies to achieve results that benefit business and the environment. Our litigators work together with our commercial and transactional lawyers to provide advice regarding environmental aspects of corporate, commercial, and real estate transactions, and assist in the negotiation and documentation of such transactions.

Those areas in which our attorneys have expertise include:

• Administrative Hearings
• Agency Investigations
• Air, Water, Solid and Hazardous Waste
• Brownfields
• CERCLA, HSCA, VCP
• Delaware Coastal Zone Act
• Litigation
• Permits
• Public Utilities
• Regulatory Compliance & Auditing
• Subaqueous Lands 
• Wetlands & Wild Lands

Representative Matters

• Assisting clients to obtain construction and operating permits for businesses ranging from electric generating and petroleum refining facilities to golf courses.
• Representing companies in cost recovery and other CERCLA litigation, involving sites in Delaware and other states.
• Appearances before federal, state, and regional agencies, including the Delaware Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Control, the Delaware Environmental Appeals Board, and the Delaware River Basin Commission.
• Addressing environmental issues in mergers and other corporate transactions, such as negotiating and drafting environmental service, indemnification, and prospective purchaser agreements.