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Our Energy, Environment & Natural Resources Practice provides legal services, as well as government affairs and legislative advocacy, encompassing environmental and natural resources laws, along with energy regulatory, energy utility, and energy policy.
- Expertise – Project due diligence, incentives, permitting, approvals, regulatory compliance, administrative proceedings, enforcement actions, policy development, transactions and litigation. Land use and natural resources on public, tribal, and Bureau of Management land.
- Renewable Energy – Development, financing, operation, powering and repowering, sale, and acquisition of utility-scale solar, wind, geothermal, and battery energy storage.
- Lithium – All sectors of lithium ecosystem from raw materials mining and processing to manufacturing, storage, and recycling batteries.
- Energy – Work with public utilities to procure energy and infrastructure for developing and operating large-scale energy consuming projects.
- Water Law – Matters involving water resources and rights management, including administrative and regulatory proceedings, water rights transfer and permitting applications, state and federal water management laws and process. Transactions and litigation re: development, acquisition, sale, lease, and storage of water. Compliance and litigation of water rights before administrative bodies and courts.
- Mining – Developing and permitting, environmental compliance, water resources, obtaining and defending project approvals.
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Sylvia Harrison
Sylvia Harrison has a breadth of experience advising clients on a wide variety of environment matters, including permitting issues, regulatory questions and water law.
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