Environmental

Compliance & Litigation

CMBG3’s Comprehensive

Environmental Services

Meeting Compliance

Identify legislation that will impact your business and recommend action steps to avoid disruption of business

Help clients develop comprehensive compliance programs to lower risk and reduce costs

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Specialists in California’s Proposition 65, which regulates over 900 chemicals and requires detailed compliance steps from companies that sell, distribute, or manufacture
products in California

Suzanne Englot, former Environmental Health and Safety Consultant, provides unique
expertise to ensure regulatory compliance

Health & Safety

Develop ways to integrate regulatory compliance systems with environmental
monitoring and measuring

Help clients achieve compliance objectives with health and safety training and
implementation

Create policies and procedures that encompass employee health and safety

Help companies with workplace violations achieve quick compliance

Environmental Litigation

Examples of environmental litigation cases that we have handled include:

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Post-fire contamination cases

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Hazardous waste site cleanup cases

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Transportation of hazardous waste cases

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Underground oil tank and boiler release cases

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Land, property, and water contamination, including CERCLA claims

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PFAS contamination

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Prop 65 litigation cases

Strength

in Numbers

The Missing Piece to Your Business’ Litigation Team: Using A National Coordinating Counsel to Manage Your Mass Tort Litigation

Businesses, large and small, can find themselves overwhelmed by litigation quickly, if and when they find themselves in the crosshairs of a...

Ethylene Oxide Case Starts Trial In Georgia

Ethylene Oxide (EtO) is an industrial solvent widely used as a sterilizing agent for medical and other equipment that cannot otherwise be sterilized...

Defense Verdict in First Ethylene Oxide Case to Go To Verdict in Colorado

Background Ethylene Oxide (EtO) is an industrial solvent widely used as a sterilizing agent for medical and other equipment that cannot otherwise be...

Removal of NEPA Implementing Regulations to Alter Landscape of Federal Environmental Review

On February 25, 2025, the Counsel on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the advisory agency within the Executive Office of the President meant to assist...

John Gardella To Speak at PLI’s Manufacturing & Consumer Products Conference

John Gardella will speak on March 11, 2025 at PLI's virtual Manufacturing and Consumer Products Law Conference. His sessions will address why PFAS...

PFAS Lawsuit Against Industrial Users of PFAS Highlights Risks

We have written numerous times over the past several years regarding the risks posed to current and historical corporate users of PFAS (whether...

Ohio Groundwater Conference Invites John Gardella To Speak On PFAS

John Gardella is an invited speaker at the upcoming Ohio Groundwater Conference (virtual), which will take place on February 25, 2025. The...

Apple’s PFAS Consumer Fraud Lawsuit The Latest In Growing Trend

Directly on the heels of our article this week regarding the latest PFAS consumer fraud lawsuit (this time, against Samsung for its smart watches),...

PFAS Personal Injury Lawsuits: Warning Bells For Users of PFAS

Two recent PFAS personal injury lawsuits have grabbed headlines, as the plaintiffs in the respective lawsuits allege that they developed cancer from...

Latest PFAS Consumer Fraud Lawsuit Re-Raises Important Considerations For Companies

On several instances, we have written regarding consumer fraud PFAS class action lawsuits filed in several states. The number of product types...

Regulated chemicals for which we counsel clients

Team members specializing in environmental issues

States in which we represent clients for environmental issues

Experts in California’s Prop 65 regulations

Overturning Massachusetts DEP’s Decision to Levy Fines

Our client was a light industrial company that, due to the nature of its work, stored several types of liquid and chemical waste on its property for later disposal. A fire damaged a large portion of the company building where the chemicals were stored. It was determined to be an accidental fire; however, the fire caused several containers of chemicals to explode, leading to contamination of the company’s land. The Massachusetts DEP investigated the chemical runoff from the fire and alleged that the chemicals had permeated public land and waterways at levels above allowable concentrations. Our investigation of surrounding industrial sources of pollution, our site inspections, and soil and water samples performed by an expert LSP enabled us to write a comprehensive response report to the DEP showing that the chemical pollution was confined to the company’s property and had likely never contaminated public soil or waterways. With our report and negotiations with the DEP, the agency dismissed the Notice of Responsibility against our client, thereby saving our client thousands of dollars in fines.

California Team

Christine D. Calareso

Partner

New England Team

John P. Gardella

Shareholder

Bryna Rosen Misiura

Shareholder

How We Can Help You

While all of our attorneys litigate environmental cases, should you need help with an issue in a specific state in which we regularly handle environmental legal matters, please contact

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