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Our attorneys have experience with compliance counseling and enforcement actions
with respect to pretreatment standards and the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System (“NPDES”) and state wastewater discharge permitting programs
covering both technology-based and water quality standards. We also have successfully
assisted in applications for wastewater discharge permits for a variety of entities,
including large real estate development projects. In some cases, these applications
attracted substantial environmental and public interest group opposition. We also
have experience in wastewater permit litigation involving environmental
and public interest groups. For example, one of our attorneys represented the
defendant in a major NPDES enforcement action by EPA in the Northeast. That matter
was preceded by a threatened enforcement action by a citizen group under the citizen
suit provisions of the Clean Water Act. In addition to direct discharge requirements,
our attorneys have worked with industrial clients regarding the indirect discharge
of waste to publicly owned treatment works (“POTWs”). Because the majority
of these regulations are local in nature, our attorneys have negotiated with numerous
cities on behalf of industrial clients regarding the settlement of alleged excessive
or unlawful discharges. In many cases we have been successful in substantially
reducing the penalty proposed and using supplemental environmental projects to
help achieve both the city’s and industry’s goals.
Our attorneys have also worked with clients in their compliance with EPA and Texas
storm water discharge requirements. We also have experience with controversies
arising out of EPA’s construction grant program under the Clean Water Act.
Our firm also has significant experience in litigating cases resulting from
ground and surface water pollution. We have handled lawsuits involving
provisions of the Clean Water Act, the Oil Pollution Act, RCRA, CERCLA, FIFRA,
the Texas Solid Waste Disposal Act and Texas Water Code. Please feel free to contact
any of us to discuss how we might assist you.
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