Environmental

Our full-service environmental offerings include:

• Regulatory Compliance & Permitting: We guide clients through the permitting process across federal, state, and local jurisdictions, including air, water, coastal, wetlands, and stormwater. We also provide ongoing compliance audits and strategic reporting counsel.
• Brownfields Redevelopment & Incentives: We advise on remediation planning, environmental liability management, and securing redevelopment incentives such as tax credits and grant programs.
• Enforcement Defense: We represent clients in regulatory enforcement actions, including negotiations with agencies, settlement development, and remediation strategy implementation.
• Due Diligence & Transactional Support: We help clients navigate environmental site assessments (Phase I and Phase II), innocent prospective purchaser protections, analyze environmental liability, structure indemnities, and assist with disclosure obligations during mergers, acquisitions, and asset transfers.
• Environmental Reviews & NEPA Guidance: We coordinate environmental reviews for large-scale projects subject to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) or state equivalents, and stay abreast of changes to NEPA’s applicability.
• Land Use Approvals: We support clients through municipal land use approval processes, including zoning, planning board coordination, and environmental impact assessments.
• Infrastructure & Energy Projects: We advise on environmental aspects of renewable energy, transportation, and utility infrastructure projects, including public incentives, climate change risk evaluations and ecological permitting.
• Environmental Crisis Prevention & Response: We prepare clients for potential spills or environmental emergencies, overseeing incident response, and guide them through required notifications and remediation.
• Transactional & Financing Support: We assist lenders and investors in identifying and mitigating environmental risks during deal structuring and financing transactions, and assist borrowers in addressing environmental concerns in cost-effective ways to provide the security lenders and investors seek.
• Litigation & Liability Counseling: We defend clients in environmental litigation and advise on proactive risk mitigation strategies.
• Policy & Legislative Strategy: We monitor emerging environmental and climate-related legislation and help clients understand and adapt to regulatory changes, and take advantage of new incentives.

We recognize that no two environmental matters are alike. Our attorneys tailor strategies to suit each client’s risk profile, industry, and business model—whether that means helping a developer secure critical permitting approvals, advising a private equity firm on liability in an acquisition, or defending a manufacturer in an enforcement action.

Clients rely on us for our responsiveness, technical acumen, and ability to anticipate evolving regulatory challenges. With a finger on the pulse of environmental policy and emerging legal trends, we’re equipped to advise not only on what the law is—but where it’s going.

By integrating our environmental knowledge with DarrowEverett’s broader legal capabilities, we provide holistic solutions that safeguard compliance, unlock opportunities, and position clients for long-term success.