Alert 03.07.25
Council on Environmental Quality Rescinds NEPA Regulations
Federal agencies are now responsible for their own National Environmental Policy Act procedures, creating uncertainty and opportunity for federal environmental reviews.
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Pillsbury provides clients with comprehensive environmental counseling and helps craft practical and cost-effective strategies to ensure environmental compliance, anticipate regulatory trends, manage day-to-day environmental issues and limit risk exposure.
Pillsbury’s nationally recognized Environmental group includes lawyers with decades of experience under all major federal and state environmental programs. Many of our lawyers have served at the U.S. EPA, Department of Energy, Department of the Interior, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division, and other federal agencies. This collective experience gives our team deep insight into how to work effectively with environmental regulators to achieve positive outcomes.
We understand the critical role that facts play in evaluating clients’ compliance status; and we have strong, sector-focused knowledge of our clients’ industries, including the petroleum and chemical sectors, energy, manufacturing, real estate and construction, and agriculture. Building on these solid foundations, our lawyers take a proactive approach, helping clients develop and implement environmental compliance strategies that anticipate regulatory challenges instead of react to them, minimizing risk and ensuring that legal obligations are met in a timely and cost-effective manner. Our lawyers stay abreast of legal and policy developments and advise clients across a broad spectrum of the economy on how these developments may affect their operations. Our goal is to minimize our clients’ environmental risk and liability, enabling their businesses to grow and thrive.
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Pillsbury’s Environmental Group, regularly ranked in the top tier of nationwide environmental practices, represents clients from a wide variety of industries including energy, chemicals, manufacturing, construction, real estate, health care, education, natural resources, and transportation. Our clients include public and private companies, as well as industry and trade associations. As leading authorities on air and water quality, climate change, oil and gas exploration and development, solid and hazardous waste management, site investigation/remediation, natural resources, and endangered species, we provide compliance counseling and defense in complex matters under all of the major federal and state environmental laws. Our lawyers’ participation and leadership in industry coalitions, trade groups and other organizations give us an insider’s perspective on the development and direction of environmental regulation at all levels, enabling us to anticipate regulatory trends and advocate on behalf of our clients for changes that make good business sense.
With our industry-focused knowledge, legal experience, and a deep understanding of the policies that underlie existing and emerging environmental laws, we bring sound judgment and perspective to all matters and can promptly anticipate and evaluate issues, assess potential risk exposure for the business, and identify the optimal steps the client can take to minimize or eliminate that exposure. Further, we understand the business considerations that can drive problem-solving, and we have significant first-hand experience with the unique environmental issues that many types of industrial operations face including those specifically targeted by environmental regulations (e.g., oil production, petroleum refining, and electricity generation).
Our lawyers bring credibility and recognized experience to the table. We facilitate the design and implementation of environmental compliance programs, working with clients to evaluate the strength of their environmental, health and safety culture and advising them regarding corporate oversight of their environmental, health and safety performance. Further, we help clients identify areas of potential benefit and achieve full legal compliance with a minimum of cost. We assist clients with:
We have registered more than 30 industrial installations in Europe, North America, and Asia to the ISO 14001, BSI 7750 and IS 310 environmental management system standards.
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