• Represented an international soft drink company in connection with acquisitions, environmental and OSHA compliance, and enforcement defense actions across the United States
  • Represented national waste management companies in connection with permitting, landfill siting and regulatory approvals in North Carolina
  • Represented one of the nation's largest convenience store chains in connection with acquisitions, enforcement defense, permitting and private party settlements throughout 13 states
  • Represented the nation’s largest electric utility in its acquisition and construction of three utility-scale solar power generating facilities
  • Serve as local environmental counsel for Fortune 1000 company that owns and operates large scale waste-to-energy facilities
  • Represented a national pharmaceutical company in connection with defense of one of the single largest OSHA enforcement actions ever brought by the NCDOL-OSH Division; we also successfully defended personal injury actions filed by more than 50 individuals alleging exposure to toxic chemicals arising from the same events
  • Represented an international pharmaceutical company in connection with State and federal air quality permitting and approval requirements
  • Represented national trucking companies in connection with site remediation, OSHA compliance and defense and acquisition matters
  • Represented national food and snack manufacturers in connection with site remediation, enforcement defense and air quality/risk management plan compliance
  • Represented international and national paper product companies in connection with RCRA permitting, site remediation, TSCA reporting, water quality permitting and OSHA compliance matters in North Carolina
  • Represented an insurance carrier and its insured, a private water company, in a drinking water contamination lawsuit brought by 30 homeowners in North Carolina
  • Represented a real estate investment company before the N.C. Environmental Management Commission (EMC) in its successful intervention of opposition to a declaratory ruling request involving the corrected delineation of the Jordan Lake watershed critical area
  • Represented a national pickle manufacturer before EMC in successful renewal of water quality variance and NPDES permit
  • Represented clients in connection with all major North Carolina environmental, health and safety programs, including the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Solid and Hazardous Waste Programs; Groundwater and Aquifer Protection Programs; Stormwater and Wetlands Programs; Endangered Species; Superfund; OSHA; Asbestos; Mining and Sedimentation Control; Pollution Prevention; and Renewable Energy
  • Serve as legislative and regulatory advocacy in connection with numerous North Carolina environmental statutory programs and agency initiatives, including landfill permitting, Brownfields, dry cleaner and UST Trust Fund issues and hazardous waste permitting matters
  • Preparation of climate change disclosures for public company client in SEC filings
  • Three of our firm's attorneys have represented the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources as Assistant Attorneys General and have personal regulatory experience with virtually all state and federal environmental programs in effect in North Carolina
  • Environmental Litigation
  • Represented one of the nation’s largest utilities with all aspects of its substantial involvement in one of the largest U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Superfund enforcement actions in North Carolina’s history
  • Represented a large producer of high purity metal located in the Research Triangle Park in its defense and ultimate settlement of a threatened citizen suit by a local environmental organization regarding alleged violations of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act
  • Represented a real estate investment company before the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission (EMC) in its successful intervention and opposition to a declaratory ruling request by environmental interests involving the corrected delineation and location of the critical area watershed boundary surrounding Jordan Lake
  • Represented a national food products manufacturer before the EMC in our client’s successful renewal of a variance from the State’s water quality action level for chloride and National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for its North Carolina facility
  • Represented an insurance carrier and its insured, a private water company, in defense of a drinking water contamination lawsuit brought by approximately 30 homeowners in Wake County Superior Court. Many of the lawsuit’s allegations involved exceedences of the State’s groundwater standards and EPA’s secondary drinking water standards
  • Represented a national agricultural company before the N.C. Department of Agriculture Pesticide Board and on a petition for judicial review in Wake County Superior Court in a proceeding charging the most significant pesticide law violations in North Carolina’s history
  • Represented of one of the nation's largest convenience store chains in connection with litigation to enforce environmental insurance coverage