Environmental

We practice in all areas of environmental and occupational safety and health law. This includes: (1) counseling clients in meeting regulatory responsibilities; (2) negotiating with and litigating against federal, state and local governments concerning the scope of clients’ obligations; (3) litigating against private parties where clean-up cost are in issue; (4) litigating against private parties for property damage and personal injuries due to alleged exposure to substances; (5) mergers, acquisitions, leases, lending, insurance and litigation resulting from these relationships, and (6) implementing innovative financial tools to remove the environmental risk from real estate transactions.

Our work in the area of designing innovative financial solutions to environmental risk led to the creation in 2001 of AT Environmental, LLC. This consulting firm designs site specific insurance programs to facilitate Brownfield redevelopment, balance sheet management and settle complex claims. George von Stamwitz serves as President at the firm and he has earned an international reputation in this growing area.

Practice Highlights

• Counsel for a group of 42 companies at a Superfund site in the midwest involving: (1) clean up of facility; (2) litigating objections to consent decree filed by nonsettling parties; (3) obtaining mixed funding from USEPA for EPA’s clean up contribution; (4) allocation and insurance litigation.

• Counsel for company sued by the United States and State of Missouri for contamination at Times Beach dioxin site in Missouri

• Counsel in an appeal of denial by Missouri Department of Natural Resources of construction permit for $200 million power plant. Kinder Morgan v. MDNR.

• Counsel for industry in thousands of asbestos and PCB toxic tort cases

• Two department members, George von Stamwitz and Edwin Noel, are listed in the Best Lawyers in America for environmental law

• Two department members, Jack Barsanti and Frank Pellegrini, are former Commissioners of the Missouri Air Conservation Commission and Edwin Noel is a former Chair of the Missouri Clean Water Commission

• Two of our attorneys have served as counsel for industry in hundreds of contested OSHA cases throughout the country, including the trial of OSHA willful citations

• Department attorneys author the Missouri Environmental Law Handbook, 4th Edition, published by Government Institutes, Inc. and the Environmental Insider, a newsletter published by Associated Industries of Missouri
  

Members of the Environmental Practice Group

Barsanti, Jack	Noel, Ted
Bick, Thomas	O'Keefe, Julie
Campbell, Richard	Pellegrini, Frank
Cowling, John	Senn, Kevin
Fairbank, Micheline	von Stamwitz, George
Francis, Byron	Walker, Roger
Meulemans, Catherine