Poyner
& Spruill LLP provides a complete range of environmental
law services including compliance counseling, site selection and
permitting advice, risk evaluation and minimization mechanisms in land
development and property transfers, and administrative and civil
litigation.
The subject matter of Poyner
& Spruill's environmental law practice routinely
includes the following principal statutes and their State and federal
implementing regulations:
· the
Clean Air Act
· the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act, including wetlands and other
Clean Water Act issues
· the
Oil Pollution Act
· the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
(CERCLA/Superfund), including the Community Planning and Emergency
Right-to-Know Act
· the
Solid Waste Disposal Act, including the Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act (RCRA)
· the
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
· the
Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
· the
North Carolina Oil Pollution and Hazardous Substances Control Act
· the
North Carolina Inactive Sites Act
· the
North Carolina Coastal Area Management Act
· the
North Carolina Dry-Cleaning Solvent Contamination and Cleanup Act
(DSCA)
In addition to representation under
these statutes, lawyers in the environmental law section at Poyner
& Spruill LLP regularly provide clients with counseling in
general environmental risk management, tax relief based upon
environmental conditions and activities, relations with technical
environmental professionals, and other environmentally related daily
concerns.
Full litigation services are available
to Poyner & Spruill LLP
clients in the federal and State courts and before regulatory agencies
on any environmental issue, including: permitting litigation and
enforcement issues; citizens’ suits; financial responsibility for
removal and remedial actions; compliance with hazardous waste, toxic
substance, and underground storage tank requirements; air and noise
pollution; coastal, estuarine, and river basin development;
environmental impact documentation; and related land use issues.
Poyner
& Spruill's environmental law attorneys combine decades of
experience in private practice, but they have also served in numerous
federal and state government agencies, including the U.S. Department
of Energy, the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural
Resources, the North Carolina Department of Justice, the North
Carolina Division of Waste Management, and the North Carolina
Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Authority. This additional
experience enables the firm’s environmental lawyers to provide
practical advice not only on the rule-based mechanisms of government
regulation but on the less obvious trends and currents involved in
that process, as well.
Poyner
& Spruill's environmental attorneys publish the widely read North
Carolina Environmental Law Letter on a monthly basis, and
frequently provide written commentary and conduct environmental law
programs for clients and other North Carolina attorneys.
Poyner
& Spruill LLP strives for excellence in practice and is
structured for flexibility to meet the always changing face of
environmental law. When appropriate, our work is conducted through
task groups that draw upon attorneys from other sections of our
Business Department and Litigation Department. When needed, the full
resources of our interdisciplinary practice can be focused on the
specific opportunity or problem facing your company.
