Environmental Law

Connell Foley LLP provides legal counseling and representation in all facets of environmental law to multinational companies, large New Jersey corporations, smaller businesses, and individuals. We regularly counsel clients on environmental laws and regulations and their effects on individuals, companies and public and private communities. Our practice spans many areas, including permitting of activities in wetlands, coastal and waterfront areas, and flood plains; regulation of solid waste, hazardous waste and hazardous substance generation, transportation, disposal and remediation activities; permitting of air emissions and effluent discharges; and identification, evaluation and allocation of environmental costs, rights and obligations arising from properties such as infill development, historic structures, Greenfields, Greyfields, and Brownfields.

Our attorneys represent "Potentially Responsible Parties" connected to contaminated sites in enforcement actions brought by federal, state and local governments. We have negotiated settlements in environmental litigation involving the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U. S. Department of Justice, and state regulatory authorities under the Federal Superfund law (CERCLA), and lawsuits filed, and directives issued, by federal and state agencies.

We also represent clients in environmental actions brought by private parties. Our team has represented generators, operators, and landowners in the litigation of individual claims and mass toxic tort cases arising from contaminated sites including those involving complex allocations of environmental costs and liabilities. We have also represented clients in the transfer, development and preservation of environmentally-impaired properties nationwide and in New Jersey pursuant to such laws as the Industrial Site Recovery Act (ISRA), Brownfields and Contaminated Site Remediation Act, and Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Act (HDSRA). Financing for Brownfield and other environmental projects in New Jersey may be available from the New Jersey Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund and through the Environmental Infrastructure Trust/Financing Program which finances landfill closures, environmental investigation and remediation, water-quality-justified land acquisition, construction of and upgrades to storm water management systems, wastewater treatment facilities, sludge handling facilities, and drinking water projects.

Contact: Jeffrey W. Moryan

Partners/Counsel:

Steve Barnett
John W. Bissell
Kevin J. Coakley
Timothy E. Corriston
John D. Cromie
Angela A. Iuso
Patrick J. McAuley
Philip F. McGovern Jr.
Jonathan P. McHenry
Jeffrey W. Moryan
 

 

 

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