environmental

TPM is a leader in the litigation of environmental issues on behalf of individuals, neighborhood groups, national environmental organizations, and governments.

Contact Alicia Alcorn at 202-204-8471 or aalcorn@tpmlaw.com if you have a potential case or questions regarding TPM’s environmental practice.

Our firm has been successful in:

• Ensuring access to the federal courts by setting landmark precedents on citizens’ standing to sue under the United States Constitution

• Requiring that federal agencies comply with the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

• Requiring the clean up of contaminated sites that present an imminent and substantial endangerment to human health and/or the environment under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)

• Prohibiting public access to hazardous waste contaminated areas in a public park through enforcement of RCRA

• Stopping development of an oil refinery that would have impacted Roosevelt-Campobello International Park and the whale population in the St. Lawrence River

• Stopping numerous companies from discharging pollutants into waterways under the Clean Water Act (CWA)

• Directing monies paid for environmental act violations to local environmental projects, including millions of dollars given to the Environmental Endowment for New Jersey

• Requiring facilities without environmental permits to obtain permits

Click here to download the environmental resume of the firm.