Corporate Environmental Compliance

Make us your destination for knowledgeable counsel on environmental compliance law and corporate social responsibility.

We help clients of all sizes – whether large corporate, small-to-medium sized businesses or individuals – to determine which federal and state environmental statutes, rules, and regulations apply to them, their properties and their businesses. Further, we carefully analyze the interplay and overlap among potentially applicable authorities. We can help clarify your exact obligations before you comply with them. Environmental laws and expansive administrative governmental rules regulate day-to-day activities such as the storage and disposal of hazardous wastes; monitoring, permitting and reporting of various substances and chemicals; and the investigation and cleanup of contamination discovered on site.

We have extensive experience and a sophisticated understanding of the New Jersey and federal environmental legal framework including: 

Federal Statutes:

• CERCLA or Superfund— Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
• RCRA— Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
• TSCA— Toxic Substances and Control Act and PCB Megarule
• Clean Water Act
• Clean Air Act

New Jersey State Statues:

• Spill Act— New Jersey Spill Compensation and Control Act
• SRRA— Site Remediation Reform Act
• ISRA— Industrial Site Recovery Act
• USTA— Underground Storage of Hazardous Substance Act
• ARRCS Rule— Administrative Requirements for the Remediation of Contaminated Sites
• Air Pollution Control Act
• Water Pollution Control Act

We regularly interface with regulators and environmental experts to clarify and coordinate our clients’ compliance obligations, and thereby minimize the burdens they impose. We frequently represent clients before administrative agencies during the compliance process, and assist with obtaining agency approvals and permits and defending and settling enforcement actions that may be initiated by government agencies. 

Issues of environmental concern create risk for companies. With obligatory compliance comes the need to assess, manage and limit risk.  At Davis Environmental Law we consider the level of risk involved when we help our clients deal with environmental issues. We can help our clients in assessing existing supply chain and distribution contracts and insurance policies regarding environmental liabilities and risks, and assist our clients in environmental risk mitigation. Often clients come to us following manifested environmental problems. By being forward thinking, we can assist clients to avoid problems and reduce risk by assessing operations, permits, contracts, and insurance, and help mitigate risk before problems manifest.    Forewarned is forearmed when it comes to environmental compliance. If you have potential compliance issues or wish to discuss risk mitigation, we invite you to call us today.