Balch & Bingham LLP has maintained a growing presence in the emerging environmental regulation market, focusing primarily on compliance, water quality matters, waste management programs, climate-driven regulation, and emerging issues such as PFAS and chemical permit use. The team in the Birmingham office boasts varied experience in environmental regulatory cases. Grady Moore is a leading compliance practitioner focusing on the Clean Air Act (CAA) rulemaking and permitting, as well as issues linked to energy, wood, chemical, and manufacturing. P. Stephen Gidiere is a leading authority on environmental litigation; Steven A. Burns focuses on counselling a wide range of clientele regarding environmental statutes. From the Washington office, Liz Williamson focuses her practice on air regulation within the Virginia airspace, as well as the environmental implications of state trading.
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Key clients
- Warren Paving
- Vistra Corp
- Mississippi Power Company
- Atlas Holding
- National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
- Luminant Generation
- PowerSouth Energy
- Alabama Power Company
- AEP Generation Resources
Work highlights
Provided environmental due diligence related the acquisition of Warren Paving by Granite.
Represented an energy company in litigation against the U.S. EPA involving EPA's designation of Rusk and Panola Counties.
Served as environmental counsel in diligence and execution of a stock purchase by an Atlas facility of Evraz, a multi-national steel processing manufacturing conglomerate.
Other key lawyers
Grady Moore; P. Stephen Gidiere; Steven Burns; Liz Williamson; Tom DeLawrence