About

Provided by Noble, Wickersham & Heart LLP

NW&H’s environmental/land use practice focuses on brownfields, environmental permitting, climate resiliency, and zoning.

NW&H attorneys have broad expertise in environmental and land use law and bring experience from senior positions in government. Clients include commercial and nonprofit developers, businesses and government entities.

We assist clients with a wide range of projects. We draft legislation and regulations and facilitate public-private partnerships. Our projects often involve multiple parties and complex negotiations.

  • Our brownfields practice is focused on environmental due diligence, liability protection, hazardous waste site cleanup and redevelopment planning 
  • We assist municipalities and governmental agencies with planning for climate impacts and updating existing regulations to protect against climate impacts 
  • Our environmental permitting and compliance work includes environmental impact reviews, waste site cleanup, solid waste, wetlands and tidelands matters
  • We assist municipal and governmental agencies with revisions to zoning and wetlands rules and regulations

Environmental/Land Use clients include:

  • Massport
  • MassDOT
  • MBTA
  • City of Boston
  • City of Cambridge
  • Pittsfield Economic Development Authority
  • Holyoke Gas & Electric
  • Cape Cod Commission
  • Cadmus
  • Charter Development Company LLC
  • Grossman Development Group
  • The Grossman Companies
  • Mystic River Watershed Association
  • Mission Hill NHS
  • The Davis Companies
  • Organix / Symmeres – US

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Spotlight

What the Team is Known For

Noble, Wickersham & Heart LLP has a diverse practice that includes providing environmental impact reviews, permitting of renewable energy and other projects, cleanup and brownfield redevelopment matters. The firm is also known for its experience in waste, wetlands and climate change matters.

Notable practitioners

Barbara Landau is a key contact.

Work Highlights

  • Noble, Wickersham & Heart represented a developer who acquired a large brownfields site. The firm assisted with negotiating the site acquisition documents to limit the developer's environmental risks, addressed lender concerns with environmental conditions, procured environmental insurance, and advised on cleanup of hazardous materials, wetlands impacts, and closure of two landfills at the property.