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Environmental Litigation and
Enforcement
At Barg Coffin
Lewis & Trapp, LLP,
our lawyers have been involved in major environmental litigation and
enforcement actions for nearly 30 years. We represent clients in
litigation brought by local, state and federal government agencies,
and by citizen groups. We have successfully litigated many cost
recovery lawsuits on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants, and
we are currently involved in both the counseling and litigation
aspects of a number of these actions in California as well as other
states. We also have defended some of the largest and most complex
toxic tort cases in California.
Our recent matters
include:
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Representing
companies in civil penalty actions brought under federal air,
water, pesticide, chemical and hazardous waste statutes by the
United States Department of Justice on behalf of EPA
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Representing
companies in state and federal Superfund actions brought under
CERCLA by EPA and state agencies
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Representing
large oil and other companies in defense of civil penalty
“citizen suits” brought by national environmental organizations
and alleging non-compliance with permit conditions
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Representing
a major oil company in defense of personal injury, property
damage, civil penalty and criminal claims brought by more than
14,000 plaintiffs and government agencies arising from an
alleged release of chemicals from a refinery
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Representing
property owners in actions to recover cleanup costs brought
against current and former tenants and “generators” including
United States military agencies
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Representing
high technology companies in litigation brought against
neighboring facilities to force those facilities to perform
remedial work and to pay cleanup costs and attorneys’ fees
incurred by our clients
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Representing
companies sued as “generators” and seeking recovery of costs
related to cleanup of industrial landfills and similar disposal
sites
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Defending
numerous individual and mass tort personal injury claims filed
in the United States and overseas arising out of alleged
exposure to agricultural and industrial chemicals in the
workplace, air and groundwater
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Defending
numerous complex property damage claims asserted by individual
property owners, municipalities and purported state-wide
plaintiff classes arising out of alleged soil and groundwater
contamination by agricultural and industrial chemicals
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