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Provided by Bradley Cahoon
Brad Cahoon is an environmental lawyer who represents clients throughout the US. He has a record of using his litigation, administrative, regulatory and government relations skills to help his clients achieve their business objectives. His clients have included land developers, home builders, manufacturers, lenders, chemical, energy, mining, steel, and waste companies, wireless carriers, dry cleaners, metal recyclers, ski resorts, ranchers, and farmers. He has litigated environmental cases in Utah, New York, Iowa, Indiana, and Idaho. He litigates CERCLA, RCRA, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, toxic tort, civil and criminal enforcement actions, and citizen and environmental group lawsuits. He has handled environmental matters affecting complex business transactions in multiple states across the country and internationally. He advises on purchasing, selling and cleaning up contaminated properties, minimizing environmental liability risks, and negotiating pollution insurance. He conducts diligence for purchasing and developing solar, wind, nuclear, hydro, and geothermal power plants. He assists with permitting and defending industrial operations and waste treatment, storage and disposal facilities. He advises on and defends against enforcement claims under product and shipping labeling laws: USDA, FDA, FIFRA, FMCSA, FAA, and California Proposition 65. His environmental practice spans water, zoning, energy, mining, utility, and real estate law.
With over three decades practicing environmental law, Brad has won high-profile cases involving contaminated property, air emissions, solid and hazardous waste, wetlands, water, mineral rights, and water rights and handled complex mergers and acquisitions with complex environmental risks and major brownfield redevelopment and renewable energy projects throughout the United States. Brad is co-leader of the Dentons USA Environmental Practice and Mining Sector and is a shareholder and a director of his law firm.
American Lung Association of the Southwest Region, past chairman and board member
State Law Resources, Inc., past chairman and board member
Mountain States Legal Foundation, Board of Litigation, past member
The Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law
Utah Manufacturers Association
Utah Mining Association
Utah Petroleum Association
Author, Water Matters: Caleb Tanner Provo River Water Law Conflicts, Amazon, May 24, 2019
Co-author, Utah Procurement Case Illustrates Perils in Bid Protests, Law360, April 6, 2015
Co-author, Not Perfect: Perfecting Security Interests in Water Shares, Utah Banker, 2014
Author, Nuclear Energy and Radioactive Waste: A Hot Choice for Utah, Utah CEO, 2010
Author, Extreme Makeovers: Risk Reduction Strategies for Redeveloping Mine-Scarred & Other Industrial Lands, 52 Rocky Mt. Min. L. Inst. 16.01, 2006
Author, The Brownfield Nouveau Riche, More Real Estate Players Will Be Asking, ‘What Can Brown Do For Me?’” Western Real Estate Business, 2005
Author, Contaminated Property Transactions After 2002 Brownfield Amendments, 15 Utah Bar Journal No. 8, at 13-15, 2002
Brad is active in his community and enjoys traveling, snow skiing, boating and wake surfing with his family.
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His greatest strength is that he understands the issues very clearly and he is extremely thorough.
We appreciate Brad's service and knowledge.
He is a high-quality attorney.
His greatest strength is that he understands the issues very clearly and he is extremely thorough.
We appreciate Brad's service and knowledge.
He is a high-quality attorney.