Environment
USA Guide 2024 : Arizona
Band 2
Contact number
+1 602 798 5400About
Provided by Ballard Spahr LLP
Ballard Spahr's Arizona Environment & Natural Resources Group serves as local, regional, and national counsel on an array of complex regulatory, transactional, and litigation matters for industrial, commercial, and municipal clients. For example, we advise on the development of projects that may encounter contaminated lands, scarce water resources, endangered species, and public opposition. We strategize with clients and counsel them on avoiding environmental liabilities. We help clients navigate environmental laws to ensure regulatory compliance. We also seek to resolve disputes in a creative, cost-effective manner, but are prepared to prosecute or defend charges when necessary.
In particular, we maintain our strength in providing clients with:
· Practically resolving environmental claims
· Permitting support and regulatory compliance
· Analysis and due diligence on complex business transactions
· Counsel on environmental impact studies and defense against prospective environmental impact-based challenges
· Guidance on administrative, civil, or criminal enforcement claims
Our experience encompasses:
· Environmental litigation
· Environmental rulemaking
· Permitting appeals
· Resolution of environmental disputes to facilitate business transactions
· Development projects involving alternative energy
· Brownfield redevelopment
· Contaminated properties
· Land use
· Natural resources
Chambers Review
Ballard Spahr LLP is especially noted for its capabilities in environmental litigation. Clients benefit from its additional expertise in handling complex regulatory and transactional matters in areas such as contaminations and solar projects. The team is experienced in negotiating regulatory issues for clients as well as air quality permitting. Its compact Phoenix environmental team combines local expertise with access to the firm's broad national resources. It is also skilled acting on land use matters, including those relating to brownfield developments and contaminated properties.
Work Highlights
- Ballard Spahr represented Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District in connection with CERCLA 107 claims asserted by an irrigation district for the alleged contamination of the district's groundwater wells.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"They are able to chart a path forward through even the most complicated regulatory environments."
"They are able to chart a path forward through even the most complicated regulatory environments."
Notable Practitioners
David Armstrong represents clients in environmental litigation, including mandates concerning groundwater contamination, as well as environmental compliance due diligence in relation to transactions.
Lea Phillips has a strong focus on renewable energy, battery storage and waste/recycling industry issues, with considerable expertise across a host of regulatory compliance and permitting matters.
"Lea is always extremely timely and a great sounding board on issues."