Environment

Stoel Rives’ Environmental, Land Use & Natural Resources (ELUNR) practice is a central component of the firm’s national platform, advising clients on complex regulatory, litigation, and transactional matters across the United States. With more than 60 lawyers across offices in Alaska, California, Idaho, Minnesota, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Washington, D.C., the team brings experience across multiple jurisdictions and regulatory regimes and continues to see sustained growth in both client base and matters.

Representing a diverse client base spanning energy, natural resources, agribusiness, manufacturing, real estate, construction, and financial services, the firm’s ELUNR practice is known for its integrated approach to environmental and natural resource law, combining compliance counseling, permitting, litigation, and transactional support. Lawyers advise on matters involving air and water quality, land use and development, natural resource production and management, and environmental compliance under federal, state, and local regulatory regimes, including contaminated lands, waste management, wetlands, federal lands permitting, environmental aspects of corporate and real estate transactions, and insurance recovery tied to environmental liabilities.