Environmental Litigation
Our environmental law practice handles major cases with national and even international significance. We are most well known for our role in launching Global Warming Litigation. We filed the first tort case against greenhouse gas polluters in 2004 in collaboration with eight state attorneys general and have been leaders in the field of global warming litigation ever since. We represented Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, and Environmental Defense as defendant-intervenors in three parallel cases filed against the states of California, Vermont and Rhode Island by the automobile industry; the industry is sought to strike down state laws that regulate greenhouse gases. We won all three of these cases. Click here to read more on the automobile cases. We represent the State of New Hampshire in a major groundwater contamination case against oil companies that added the chemical MTBE to gasoline despite MTBE's propensity to contaminate groundwater. We represent Clean Power Now, a citizens group supporting Cape Wind and other clean energy projects.