Environmental

Wolf Wallenstein’s environmental attorneys concentrate on cost-effective advice, counseling, and advocacy to address and resolve environmental matters. Wolf Wallenstein has helped clients prosecute and defend claims based on Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Clean Water Act (CWA), and Proposition 65.

Based in Los Angeles, Wolf Wallenstein represents real estate investors and owners, Fortune 500 companies, business entities, individuals, and others in environmental matters across California and the rest of the United States. Our environmental attorneys have decades of experience helping clients with environmental litigation, real estate due diligence and management, regulatory and compliance counseling, and Superfund/CERCLA.

Environmental Litigation

Wolf Wallenstein provides comprehensive solutions to clients facing complicated environmental litigation. Through decades of experience helping clients address the complexities of environmental and administrative matters, the team at Wolf Wallenstein has demonstrated success while also achieving solutions that benefit the client and the environment.

Relevant Experience:

Defended product manufacturers, suppliers, and retailers in Proposition 65 product liability actions prosecuted by citizen-enforcers by challenging pleadings, leveraging fact- and expert-discovery burdens, prosecuting summary judgment motions, and utilizing regulatory contacts to identify non-litigation resolution options for clients.
Defended pesticide manufacturer in 20+ complex coordinated cases. Prepared pleadings challenges, managed and conducted fact- and expert-discovery, and dispositive motion practice resulting in precedent-setting summary adjudication order on claims of nuisance and trespass.
Negotiated resolution of unfair business practices and false advertising allegations asserted by the Attorney General to permit skincare products manufacturer to sell its products in California with existing labeling.

Real Estate Due Diligence

Wolf Wallenstein's environmental attorneys apply their decades of experience evaluating and advising on environmental risk and risk management to real estate buyers and sellers. Environmental contamination and real estate risk regularly intersect. When that occurs, WW counsels clients on the identification, management and resolution of environmental risks and liabilities associated with suspected or actual environmental contamination or other environmental risks or liabilities.

Relevant Experience:

Represented multi-unit real estate holding company in sale of 28-acre site, formerly used as informal landfill, to school district to be used as a school site.
Advised real estate investment trust on environmental due diligence related to commercial and industrial property holdings across California.
Represented communication device manufacturer in acquisition of large commercial/industrial facility requiring significant coordination with state regulators to permit continued operations.
Advise commercial real estate developer on environmental representations and warranties in asset purchases to minimize or eliminate associated environmental liabilities.
Advised commercial real estate property owner on asset sale to venture capital firm for land impacted by environmental contamination.

Regulatory & Compliance Counseling

Wolf Wallenstein has decades of experience advising and counseling clients on environmental regulatory issues related to air, land, water, and waste. Wolf Wallenstein's experience with regulatory and compliance counseling includes advice regarding the Clean Water Act, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Proposition 65, and California state air regulations. Wolf Wallenstein's regulatory advice includes challenges to proposed regulations, preparation of complex permit applications, and prosecution of appeals from adverse regulatory decisions.

Relevant Experience:

Advise food processing company on product labeling of products sold in California to comply with state environmental regulations, including Proposition 65.
Counseled and defended concrete aggregate company in Clean Water Act stormwater litigation.
Represented aerospace parts manufacturer in regulatory dispute over permit matters with SCAQMD.
Challenged and successfully removed default judgment against roofing material manufacturer for alleged violations of Cal/OSHA workplace safety regulations by litigating merits of default judgment in state court.
Guide airway and railway logistics companies on environmental compliance issues raised by industrial operations.
Counsel renewable energy company on product warning compliance issues arising out of Proposition 65.
Counseled transportation company in administrative proceeding brought by a public agency for hazardous materials incident and represented company in settlement negotiations to resolve potential administrative penalties.

Superfund / CERCLA

Wolf Wallenstein helps resolve environmental litigation across California. Wolf Wallenstein's services range from advising on and litigating landowner cost-recovery and property damage claims to multi-party contribution actions involving some of the largest Superfund facilities in the country. Wolf Wallenstein represents both plaintiffs and defendants in a vast array of environmental actions, including actions involving claims based on the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Clean Water Act (CWA), and Proposition 65 for cost recovery, contribution, nuisance, trespass, property damage, insurance recovery, and other similar state law claims related to environmental contamination of real property.

Relevant Experience:

Represented real estate development company in CERCLA cost recovery action against contractors who contaminated site with grading operations.
Advised public utility on regulatory and legal obligations for preserving cost recovery claim against potentially responsible parties that contributed to the contamination of aquifers the public utility was responsible for remediating.
Defended environmental cost recovery actions through trial and appellate proceedings at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals resulting in favorable resolutions as well as establishing precedent-setting environmental case law.

WOLF WALLENSTEIN, PC

(310) 622-1000

Environmental

Environmental Litigation

Defended pesticide manufacturer in 20+ complex coordinated cases. Prepared pleadings challenges, managed and conducted fact- and expert-discovery, and dispositive motion practice resulting in precedent-setting summary adjudication order on claims of nuisance and trespass.

Negotiated resolution of unfair business practices and false advertising allegations asserted by the Attorney General to permit skincare products manufacturer to sell its products in California with existing labeling.

Real Estate Due Diligence

Represented multi-unit real estate holding company in sale of 28-acre site, formerly used as informal landfill, to school district to be used as a school site.

Advised real estate investment trust on environmental due diligence related to commercial and industrial property holdings across California.

Represented communication device manufacturer in acquisition of large commercial/industrial facility requiring significant coordination with state regulators to permit continued operations.

Advise commercial real estate developer on environmental representations and warranties in asset purchases to minimize or eliminate associated environmental liabilities.

Advised commercial real estate property owner on asset sale to venture capital firm for land impacted by environmental contamination.

Regulatory & Compliance Counseling

Advise food processing company on product labeling of products sold in California to comply with state environmental regulations, including Proposition 65.

Counseled and defended concrete aggregate company in Clean Water Act stormwater litigation.

Represented aerospace parts manufacturer in regulatory dispute over permit matters with SCAQMD.

Challenged and successfully removed default judgment against roofing material manufacturer for alleged violations of Cal/OSHA workplace safety regulations by litigating merits of default judgment in state court.

Guide airway and railway logistics companies on environmental compliance issues raised by industrial operations.

Counsel renewable energy company on product warning compliance issues arising out of Proposition 65.

Counseled transportation company in administrative proceeding brought by a public agency for hazardous materials incident and represented company in settlement negotiations to resolve potential administrative penalties.

Superfund / CERCLA

Represented real estate development company in CERCLA cost recovery action against contractors who contaminated site with grading operations.

Advised public utility on regulatory and legal obligations for preserving cost recovery claim against potentially responsible parties that contributed to the contamination of aquifers the public utility was responsible for remediating.

Defended environmental cost recovery actions through trial and appellate proceedings at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals resulting in favorable resolutions as well as establishing precedent-setting environmental case law.

WOLF WALLENSTEIN, PC

(310) 622-1000

Environmental

Environmental Litigation

Defended pesticide manufacturer in 20+ complex coordinated cases. Prepared pleadings challenges, managed and conducted fact- and expert-discovery, and dispositive motion practice resulting in precedent-setting summary adjudication order on claims of nuisance and trespass.

Negotiated resolution of unfair business practices and false advertising allegations asserted by the Attorney General to permit skincare products manufacturer to sell its products in California with existing labeling.

Real Estate Due Diligence

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Represented multi-unit real estate holding company in sale of 28-acre site, formerly used as informal landfill, to school district to be used as a school site.

Advised real estate investment trust on environmental due diligence related to commercial and industrial property holdings across California.

Represented communication device manufacturer in acquisition of large commercial/industrial facility requiring significant coordination with state regulators to permit continued operations.

Advise commercial real estate developer on environmental representations and warranties in asset purchases to minimize or eliminate associated environmental liabilities.

Advised commercial real estate property owner on asset sale to venture capital firm for land impacted by environmental contamination.

Regulatory & Compliance Counseling

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Advise food processing company on product labeling of products sold in California to comply with state environmental regulations, including Proposition 65.

Counseled and defended concrete aggregate company in Clean Water Act stormwater litigation.

Represented aerospace parts manufacturer in regulatory dispute over permit matters with SCAQMD.

Challenged and successfully removed default judgment against roofing material manufacturer for alleged violations of Cal/OSHA workplace safety regulations by litigating merits of default judgment in state court.

Guide airway and railway logistics companies on environmental compliance issues raised by industrial operations.

Counsel renewable energy company on product warning compliance issues arising out of Proposition 65.

Counseled transportation company in administrative proceeding brought by a public agency for hazardous materials incident and represented company in settlement negotiations to resolve potential administrative penalties.

Superfund / CERCLA

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Represented real estate development company in CERCLA cost recovery action against contractors who contaminated site with grading operations.

Advised public utility on regulatory and legal obligations for preserving cost recovery claim against potentially responsible parties that contributed to the contamination of aquifers the public utility was responsible for remediating.

Defended environmental cost recovery actions through trial and appellate proceedings at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals resulting in favorable resolutions as well as establishing precedent-setting environmental case law.