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| Return to Areas of Practice ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE & LITIGATION Our firm provides counseling with respect to transactional, regulatory and administrative environmental matters. We have substantial experience in a variety of complex, multi-party environmental, toxic tort and related litigation. Environmental Compliance and Transactional
Matters Our lawyers have considerable experience in drafting and negotiating the environmental provisions in contracts, leases and loan documentation and in counseling lenders, buyers, sellers and tenants through the various state and federal liability regulations and statutes. Transactions involving the sale, transfer or closure of certain business operations and properties in New Jersey are unique in that they may be subject to the Industrial Site Recovery Act (ISRA). We are experienced in guiding our clients through ISRA compliance in a timely and cost-efficient manner. Regulatory and Enforcement Matters
Environmental compliance requires strict adherence to a complex and fluid set of statutes, regulations and guidance documents. Even the most environmentally sensitive company may become the subject of an enforcement action and penalty. We handle all aspects of negotiations with regulatory authorities and the defense of such proceedings and strive to achieve a fair, cost-efficient and timely resolution. Environmental Litigation We help our clients through the unique challenges posed by environmental litigation and the enormous costs it potentially can impose even on innocent companies. We have a long history of experience representing our clients in governmental and private environmental cost recovery and penalty actions brought under CERCLA (the federal Superfund Law), the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the N.J. Spill Act and ISRA. Environmental litigation is like many other types of litigation that we handle. We bring to bear our strong litigation skills in advocating our client's position. In other ways, environmental litigation is different. Based on our experience and record of success in this area, we have developed creative approaches to minimizing our clients' exposure, including challenges to site nexus, negotiation of reduced site cost assessments by application of cost saving technologies and reduced allocation methodologies. Saiber attorneys practicing in this area include:
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