SNP’s Environment Practice Group represents clients over the full gamut of environmental issues. Where in it regularly counsels clients in every substantive field of environmental law including air, water, solid waste, hazardous chemicals, infectious waste, underground storage tanks and pollution insurance. We have extensive experience with the full range of environmental, health, and safety laws that relate to litigation, transactional, and regulatory compliance matters.
We regularly counsel clients on environmental impact statements, water discharge permits, waste disposal authorizations, and air emission permits. Our team help navigate the significant uncertainty that has been created by new or contemplated rules to address major sources, mercury emissions, NOx, regional haze, and even greenhouse gases. Our team has deep understanding of the requirements and opportunities presented by regulation of climate change emissions in India and across the world.
Additionally, we advise clients on environmental attributes and “green tag” trading under various Indian state renewable portfolio standards, as well as the developing international infrastructure for the regulation of greenhouse gases, including the Kyoto Protocol.
The dedicated team at SNP national environmental practice advises clients on all aspects of complex environmental matters, including technical and scientific issues, health-based risk assessments, political concerns, land use issues, litigation exposures, insurance issues, cleanup strategies, government agency interactions, regulatory requirements and permitting issues.
Our environmental practice embraces a wide range of needs by focusing our practice on the following areas:
➢ Air and Water Quality
➢ Asbestos
➢ Assistance for obtaining necessary permits, approvals, exemptions
➢ Compliance advice concerning new and existing statutes and regulations
➢ Construction related environmental issues
➢ Counseling on issues relating to eco-auditing and eco-assessment
➢ Due diligence assessment and allocation of environmental implications for mergers and acquisitions, lease requirements
➢ Environmental Audit
➢ Environmental Litigation ➢ Environmental Insurance
➢ Green Buildings
➢ Mold Investigation, Remediation and Litigation
➢ National and International Legislations and Treaties
➢ Obtaining environmental clearances for infrastructure projects
➢ Pollution Control in any environmental medium
➢ Product Standards Permitting and Enforcement
➢ Site Cleanups
➢ Solid and Hazardous Waste Management.