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Real Estate Group: Environmental Law

 

Cummings & Lockwood’s environmental lawyers have expertise in the increasingly-complex area of environmental law as it affects real estate transactions.  Our environmental lawyers advise clients on:

    • Minimizing exposure to environmental liability when purchasing or selling real estate
    • Obtaining or transferring environmental permits and/or authorizations
    • Complying with environmental laws and regulations
    • Developing brownfield projects
    • Utilizing environmental insurance products to facilitate the sale or financing of environmentally-impaired real estate
    • Investigating and remediating contaminated property
    • Defending against enforcement actions brought by federal, state and local governmental agencies
    • Determining any applicable reporting and disclosure obligations
    • Auditing facility operations
    • Negotiating Prospective Purchaser Agreements and Covenants Not to Sue with the EPA and/or the DEP
    • Procuring reimbursement for cleanup costs from State Underground Storage Tank or Dry Cleaning Funds