Resolving environmental issues goes beyond intricate technical knowledge, to encompass real estate, municipal law, business, administrative law, banking, bankruptcy, and litigation. Our experience includes helping our clients obtain licenses, permits, and exceptions related to air quality, water quality, hazardous waste, solid waste, wetlands, and other legislatively-protected areas. Years of addressing cleanup, compliance, and liability issues on behalf of municipal and business clients have created a range of specialties, including:

• Baseline environmental assessments and due care compliance under Part 201 of Michigan’s Environmental Code.
• Environmental cleanup actions under federal Superfund and Part 201 of Michigan’s Environmental Code.
• Compliance with federal and state waste disposal and air and water pollution control statutes.
• Brownfield redevelopment issues and environmental due diligence related to redevelopment.
• Real estate and business transactions, including lender liability; officer, director, and shareholder liability; landlord and tenant liability; indemnity and warranties; and bankruptcy.
• Natural resource and development issues such as zoning, sand dune and shoreline protection, and wetlands protection.
• Underground storage tanks, including closure requirements, financial assurance requirements, tank upgrades, liability issues, and cleanup from leaking underground storage tanks.
• Lead paint regulations, including their application to tax-reverted properties.
• Environmental insurance claims.
• Municipal and private sewer facilities.
• Audits of manufacturing and business operations to assess compliance with environmental laws.
• Negotiation and litigation relative to compliance and regulations.