Use Our Help to Stay on the Right Side of the Law
All the old sayings apply: a stitch in time saves nine; prevention is the best cure; better safe than sorry; forewarned is forearmed.
The message is clear: in matters involving environmental laws and regulations, it is far more efficient to get it right the first time than it is to repair errors or omissions.
At the Fairfax County law office of Hale Carlson Baumgartner, PLC, the goal of our environmental law practice is to be your strategic partner in environmental compliance matters.
Cost-Effective Legal Services That Respect the Bottom Line
The clients of our environmental law practice tend to be medium-sized and small businesses throughout Northern Virginia, as well as individual professionals who require advice about potential environmental liability. Our attorneys are equipped to provide legal advice about one specific issue, or to serve as on-call counsel for environmental concerns. In developing our fee structure, we have given great consideration to our clients' financial priorities.
Alphabet Soup: Compliance Counseling on Federal, State and Local Laws
The overlapping layers of environmental laws and regulations can be overwhelming. Our job as your professional and legal counsel is to sort through the layers on your behalf and advise you about the environmental rules applicable to your company.
Our lawyers work with companies and sole proprietorships on compliance with laws and regulations such as:
- Compliance with federal and state general permits
- Resource Conservation Recovery Act (RCRA) or the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA)
- Endangered Species Act
- Clean Water Act (CWA)
- Clean Air Act (CAA)
- Wetlands and watershed preservation regulations
- Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund)
- Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
- National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
- Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act (EPCRTKA)
- Oil Pollution Act (OPA)
- Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)
- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
- Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) rules and regulations
Special Concerns for Specific Industries
We have institutional knowledge of the application of environmental laws to the land development industry, retail automotive shops and dry cleaning businesses.
We work with land developers who have questions about brownfield development and other clean-up issues; storm water drainage laws; and compliance with county and state environmental requirements for new developments.
We work with gas stations and vehicle oil change businesses, advising on environmental due diligence during purchase or sale; helping gain access to the Virginia Petroleum Tank Fund where necessary; and providing easy-to-use checklist of necessary environmental reports.
We work with dry cleaning businesses much the same way, advising on purchase or sale; guiding these businesses through the proper use and disposal of chemicals used by or in the business according to the requirements of the Resource Conservation Recovery Act (RCRA).
Contact Hale Carlson Baumgartner for a Consultation
To speak with one of our environmental due diligence attorneys, call 703-763-0374 or contact us online to schedule a free 30 minute consultation.
