Environmental Law
The experience of Tressler Saunders in the area of environmental law enables us to bring a synergy to a wide range of issues related to this highly diverse field of law. We have crafted solutions for commercial, industrial, governmental, institutional and individual clients and assisted them in navigating the complex, interrelated and frequently changing mix of federal and state environmental laws.
A Summary of Our Experience
Tressler Saunders provides practical guidance and counseling on a full range of environmental legal matters. Our firm responds to and defends our clients in state and federal administrative enforcement actions, assists them with regulatory and compliance counseling and facility and internal environmental audits, and counsels parties in responding to pollution events causing contamination of soil, air and groundwater. We also conduct negotiations with federal and state regulators and administrative agencies over fines and civil penalty assessments and assist clients in obtaining facility operating and discharge permits for wastewater treatment plants, public water suppliers and manufacturing companies. Our experience also includes assisting with sewage facility planning, remediation of contaminated sites, providing counseling to clients with real estate-based transactions including due diligence investigations, risk assessment and transactional documentation, developing lender liability policies, and providing representation in toxic tort and Superfund litigation in state and federal courts and before administrative tribunals.
In all of these areas, our lawyers have served clients including Fortune 100 and 500 firms in telecommunications and manufacturing, municipal authorities, financial institutions, real estate developers, chemical companies, fuel oil distributors, landfills, hospitals, local governments, water suppliers, construction companies, and educational institutions.
Ready to Litigate, Whatever the Claim
When a matter cannot be resolved amicably, Tressler Saunders litigates cases in federal trial and appellate courts and before administrative boards, involving a variety of federal statutes including for example: CERCLA, RCRA, the Clean Water Act, the National Environmental Policy Act and the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund. In the state arena, we have defended claims in the Courts of Common Pleas, the Pennsylvania appellate courts and before the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board. Our experience extends to legal actions brought by governmental and private parties under the Hazardous Sites Cleanup Act, the Storage Tank and Spill Prevention Act, the Clean Stream Law, the Solid Waste Management Act and others. We are currently representing a regional municipal authority in first impression litigation involving NPDES permitting and the interpretation and enforcement of Pennsylvania’s Chesapeake Bay Tributary Strategy.
A Leader in Land Recycling
When it comes to understanding and applying the law relating to Brownfields, no other local firm has more experience or involvement in the developing stages of the Pennsylvania Land Recycling program than Tressler Saunders. Since the passage of “Act 2″, we have assisted public and private clients in preparing applications and obtaining state and federal grants for the redevelopment of numerous Brownfields projects involving the cleanup of rail yards, landfills, coal mine properties and industrial sites and their conversion into and reuse for retail, industrial and recreational purposes.
Tressler Saunders’ lawyers have been appointed to and continue to serve in leadership positions on statewide environmental organizations and boards organized by state regulators and local governments. We currently act as General Counsel for Environment and Planning to Lackawanna County and have served as Special Environmental Counsel to neighboring Luzerne County.