Solid and Hazardous Waste
Our firm's practice includes a full spectrum of solid and hazardous waste and pollutant permitting, regulation, enforcement and litigation. This includes complex circumstances involving soil, sediments, groundwater, and surface water contamination in Florida. We routinely assist clients in obtaining permits for hazardous and solid waste management facilities, both from DEP and EPA; drafting environmental laws and regulations; negotiating environmental aspects of real estate transactions and other contracts; negotiating settlements or litigating with DEP or EPA in enforcement actions arising from routine facility inspections, accidental releases, permit violations and historic site contamination; counseling industrial and governmental clients on compliance and permitting issues; and negotiating corrective action, closure, post-closure care, groundwater monitoring, and financial assurance requirements under federal and Florida laws and rules.
Our firm also has substantial experience in an array of solid and hazardous waste and pollutant litigation matters. Several of our attorneys have devoted most of their careers to these issues. In the administrative context, we have litigated dozens of contested permits, rule challenges, and enforcement cases, many involving contamination cleanup obligations.
Our firm is actively involved in virtually all solid and hazardous waste and pollutant issues before the Florida Legislature and state regulatory agencies. We have achieved a high degree of success for our clients on a variety of issues which include solid and hazardous waste, the above-ground and underground petroleum storage tank regulatory programs, Florida's petroleum contamination remediation and reimbursement programs, biomedical waste, dry-cleaning solvent contamination remediation, Brownfield redevelopment, and deep injection wells. We have been very successful in building coalitions of a broad range of stakeholders on a wide variety of issues.
Practicing Attorneys : Ralph A. DeMeo, Carl Eldred, Gary K. Hunter, Jr., Michael P. Petrovich and D. Kent Safriet.