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Brian
S. Haughton
e-mail: bsh@bcltlaw.com
Brian Haughton is a founding partner of
Barg Coffin Lewis & Trapp, LLP. His practice focuses on
environmental litigation and administrative proceedings, related
compliance counseling and redevelopment of environmentally impaired
real property (“brownfields”). Brian regularly lectures and
publishes on these topics and has served as an adjunct professor of
environmental law at Hastings College of the Law and University of
San Francisco School of Law. He is also a member of the Executive
Committee of the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Environmental
Law Section.
In 2004, 2005 and 2006, Brian was
honored as a “Super Lawyer” by San Francisco magazine in an
annual survey of Northern California lawyers.
Brian’s professional expertise includes:
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Counseling clients regarding compliance with federal, state and
local environmental and related laws and regulations, including
the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB32),
Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, Safe Drinking Water
and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65), California
Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), Carpenter-Presley-Tanner
Hazardous Substance Account Act (HSAA), Hazardous Waste Control
Law, Medical Waste Management Act, Radiation Control Law, Clean
Air Act, Clean Water Act, Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), Emergency
Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 (EPCRA),
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (a.k.a. Solid
Waste Disposal Act – RCRA or SWDA), Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA),
Endangered Species Act (ESA), Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA),
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), National
Historic Preservation Act and common law
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Representing clients in judicial and administrative litigation
under these laws and regulations
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Counseling clients regarding pre-acquisition due diligence,
acquisition, cleanup, redevelopment, financing, insuring, sale
and leasing of brownfields, including former military bases
Education
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Boalt Hall
School of Law, J.D., 1983
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Harvard
Law School (Boalt-Harvard Exchange Program)
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University
of California, Davis, B.S., Physics, with Highest Honors, 1980
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Sussex
University, Brighton, England (University of California Education
Abroad Program)
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Phi
Kappa Phi
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School
of Letters and Sciences Commencement Speaker
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Physics
Department Citation Co-Winner
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National
Merit (Watson) Scholar
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Integrated
Studies Honors Program
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Kraft
Scholar
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