Air, Land, Water

Where industrial activities have the potential for release of environmental contaminants, Gilberti Stinziano Heintz & Smith, P.C. provides legal advice on the regulation of those activities and releases and, where necessary, the recovery of pollution control costs or defense against government enforcement actions.

Our air pollution work includes advice on and litigation over issues arising under federal and state nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide capping and trading programs; new source review (NSR); prevention of significant deterioration (PSD); new source performance standards (NSPS); and operating permit programs (Title V).

Our air regulation clients range from power plants subject to multiple cap and trade combustion gas control programs to turbine blade manufacturers dealing with volatile organic and acid emissions; to mines, cement mills and other basic industries dealing with mineral dust.

Our water pollution work includes advice on and litigation over issues arising from federal and state water quality standards, new source performance standards, and effluent guidelines, categorical pretreatment standards, stormwater regulation, the placement of fill and structures in navigable water and the release of oil and hazardous substances to waters of the US or the State.

Our clients range from mines dealing with sediment laden discharge to paper and cheese manufacturers dealing with discharge streams having high biological oxygen demands (BOD) and categorical discharge standards; to power plants dealing with acid runoff from coal storage piles.

Our land contamination work includes advice and litigation on municipal and medical waste hauling and disposal, landfill operation and expansion, petroleum and hazardous substance release and related cost recovery actions.

Our clients include national waste management associations and waste management companies; private and government landfill operators and a wide variety of potentially responsible parties both private and government, subject to private or government cost recovery actions related to accidental contaminant release or intentional placement of materials in the landfilled waste stream.

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