Our environmental practice covers a wide breadth of environmental legal issues in California. Representative clients include commercial, industrial and residential real estate developers, renewable energy companies, life science developers, water utilities, and hazardous waste recycling facilities. Practice areas include endangered species, water rights, water quality, hazardous waste, contaminated property cleanups, human health risk assessments, air quality, and occupational safety and health. We have extensive expertise in compliance and litigation with the major federal environmental laws and their California counterparts, including the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, CERCLA, RCRA, the Endangered Species Act, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and OSHA. We also regularly respond to government inquiries and enforcement actions from of federal and California agencies, including the California Regional Water Quality Control Boards, Department of Toxic Substances Control, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, California Department of Fish & Wildlife, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, California Energy Commission, and the Office of the Attorney General of California.

