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Foley Hoag’s Environmental Practice Group has been a preeminent national environmental practice for the past twenty years. Our experience allows us to identify critical environmental legal issues early and develop practical, cost-effective strategies to address them. We develop a solid understanding of our clients’ business objectives to provide focused, sound and strategic advice that maximizes opportunities and minimizes cost and liability.

We provide strategic environmental compliance counseling for Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies, emerging businesses, environmental technology firms, institutions, municipalities, and state authorities. Such counseling can range from getting new facilities permitted, to in depth facility- or company-wide audits, to prompt and effective response to non-compliance situations.

Our Environmental Litigation lawyers have an impressive record resolving environmental legal disputes at the negotiating table and in the courtroom without hampering our clients' business operations. The types of cases we handle include:

  • Government and Citizen Enforcement Suits
  • Private Cost Recovery Actions
  • Toxic Tort Claims
  • Environmental Insurance Coverage Cases
  • International Environmental Disputes Between Sovereign States

Finally, working in conjunction with our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practice, Foley Hoag Environmental lawyers assist clients with developing and implementing broad-based international CSR programs.

Chambers Review

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Environment - Massachusetts

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What the Team is Known For

Foley Hoag LLP is a market-leading environmental practice in Massachusetts with deep experience in litigation, compliance and transactional matters. The environment group is highly regarded for its broad base of expertise in areas such as the CAA and CWA, superfunds and climate change mitigation. The team is particularly experienced in working with those in the energy generation sector.

Work Highlights

  • Foley Hoag represented FirstLight Power Resources, the owners of the 1,100 MW Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Facility and the related 60 MW Turners Falls hydroelectric facility, with regard to certain environmental aspects of their FERC relicensing, and state environmental regulatory matters, including the state water quality certificate.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Adam Kahn
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Adam Kahn
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Adam Kahn maintains a premier environmental practice that includes representing clients in compliance matters and disputes.

Adam is extremely good at what he does. He is very practical and good at figuring out what's important in a given matter.

Adam provides accurate and excellent counsel every step of the way.

Seth D Jaffe
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Seth D Jaffe
Head of Environment
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Seth Jaffe offers expertise on issues concerning air and water and advises on permitting, enforcement and regulation.

He is great to work with. Seth is always commercially oriented.

Jonathan Ettinger
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Jonathan Ettinger
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Jonathan Ettinger maintains a dynamic and varied practice in which he assists clients on a broad range of issues relating to environmental claims and insurance recovery claims. He has particular expertise in Clean Water Act and Superfund work.

Jon is one of the best environmental lawyers we have worked with.

Kathleen Brill
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Kathleen Brill
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Kathleen Brill has an extensive environmental practice aimed at assisting clients in property acquisition and development through environmental consulting, compliance counselling and dispute resolution.

Kathleen is an outstanding advocate.

Kathleen is a pleasure to work with. She is user-friendly, responsive and easy to work with.

Kathleen is very well respected.

Aaron Lang
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Aaron Lang
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Up and Coming

Aaron Lang is an up-and-coming environment practitioner, offering a range of services. His expertise ranges from permitting and regulatory matters, through to the navigation of sustainable technologies and compliance.

Ranked Lawyers at
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Massachusetts

Environment

Adam Kahn
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Adam Kahn
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Band 1
Seth D Jaffe
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Seth D Jaffe
Head of Environment
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Band 1
Jonathan Ettinger
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Jonathan Ettinger
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Band 2
Kathleen Brill
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Kathleen Brill
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Band 2
Aaron Lang
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Aaron Lang
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Up and Coming

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