Our Environmental Group has participated in some of New England’s largest and most significant environmental permitting, compliance and litigation cases – including the Deepwater Wind Farm, the Rhode Island Attorney General’s lead paint suit, and a mass tort case involving over 3,000 plaintiffs.

A Highly Respected Team

The firm is home to many of the region’s outstanding environmental attorneys, a number of whom have been recognized for their ability and expertise. For example:

  • Gerald J. Petros, the chair of our Environmental Group, has been named “2012 Environmental Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers and “Lawyer of the Year” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. Also, he is a member of the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers.
  • Robin L. Main, the co-chair of our Environmental Group, was presented the “Top Women in Law Award” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.
  • Our attorneys have been honored as Leading Lawyers for “Bet the Company Litigation” and “Environmental Law and Litigation” by Chambers USA.
  • Several members of our Environmental Group have been honored as Best Lawyers in America for their work in Environmental Law and Litigation, Energy Law and Regulatory Enforcement.
  • Several attorneys also have been honored as SuperLawyers in the areas of “Environmental Law” and “Environmental Litigation.”

Our Services

Hinckley, Allen & Snyder’s Environmental Group represents clients at federal, state and local levels on a wide range of environmental matters, including:

  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Corporate Due Diligence
  • Real Estate Matters
  • Permitting
  • Insurance Coverage
  • Environmental Litigation
  • Toxic Tort
  • Brownfields
  • Superfund
  • Clean Water
  • Clean Air

For detailed descriptions of our service offerings, please click here.

Who We Serve

We represent private and public clients on a broad range of environmental issues at the federal, state and local levels. Clients include privately held and publicly traded companies, real estate developers, banks and other lenders, manufacturers, alternative energy companies, construction companies, public utilities, and municipalities, among others. For detailed descriptions of the clients we serve, please click here.

Experience

Here is a small sampling of some of our notable environmental cases:

  • Utility Provider – We represented a large utility in connection with a significant manufactured gas plant (MGP) civil suit filed by approximately 100 families in eastern Rhode Island.
  • Manufacturer – We represented a manufacturer of high-performance engineered membranes in a federal Clean Air Act civil enforcement action in which EPA alleged that the manufacturer had made a “major” modification to a coating line without first obtaining a new source review permit.
  • Oil Company – Over a 15-year period, we represented an international oil company that owned a 106-acre parcel of land operated as a petroleum distribution terminal for over 60 years. We guided the owner through the site remediation process of this heavily contaminated property, which included the excavation and bioremediation of over 750,000 cubic yards of soil.  We later represented the owner in a contribution action against other responsible parties and in insurance coverage litigation.
  • Manufacturer/Superfund – We successfully defended a manufacturer in a contribution action under CERCLA filed in Massachusetts federal court. The plaintiff sought millions of dollars in damages from our client for allegedly contributing to the contamination at the Sullivan's Ledge Superfund Site in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a site that required more than $50,000,000 to remediate.

Contact Us

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