Areas of Practice
- Banking and Finance
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- Environmental Law
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Environmental Law
Gawthrop Greenwood's Environmental Law Group includes, from left, Julie Pfaff, Benjamin Messing, Stephen McDonnell and David Garrison. Our Environmental Law Practice Group delivers advanced litigation and counseling services to a broad range of clients including Fortune 500 companies, privately held businesses, local governments and individuals. The group handles matters involving federal and state law enforcement, maritime shipping, contaminated sites, brownfields redevelopment, water quality, stormwater, tanks, air emissions, alternative energy, indoor air quality, mold, agriculture, land development, toxic exposure, occupational health, mining, and waste disposal, among others.
Our experienced team includes a marine biologist and former U.S. EPA prosecutor, an accomplished environmental trial lawyer, a land development expert, and lawyers skilled in complex toxic tort cases, environmental due diligence for commercial transactions, and insurance coverage for environmental claims.
We have successfully handled the following matters, among many others:
- Representation of the seller of a CERCLA/Superfund site to a municipal government in Pennsylvania;
- Defense of a U.S. EPA CERCLA cost recovery suit against a metal distribution company in New Jersey;
- Prosecution and defense of claims regarding a landfill expansion in Delaware;
- Defense of a cleanup cost recovery claim regarding a contaminated site in Massachusetts;
- Representation of a waste oil recycling and hazardous waste transportation company in Pennsylvania;
- Representation of a business concerning poor indoor air quality in Pennsylvania;
- Defense of a PADEP enforcement action against a large agricultural operation in Pennsylvania;
- Defense of a Spill Act cleanup directive by NJDEP regarding a former dry cleaner site in New Jersey;
- Defense of a stormwater case against a large construction company in Pennsylvania;
- Representation of a bank in connection with a borrower's purchase of a contaminated site in Pennsylvania;
- Representation of a redeveloper of a polluted property under Act 2 in Pennsylvania; and
- Representation of an international maritime shipping company regarding TSCA issues and U.S. EPA.
For further information, please contact David A. Garrison at 610.696.8225 or dgarrison@gawthrop.com.