Environmental Law
Carls, McDonald & Dalrymple concentrates its environmental law practice on compliance and prevention. To that end, we assist businesses large and small with regulatory compliance issues including permitting, we defend clients in enforcement actions before the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and we are advocates for the public interest on environmental matters. Our environmental law attorneys have worked for regulatory agencies, public and private regulated entities, as well as for public interest clients and individuals. Our attorneys also include a former member of the legal department at the Texas Water Commission, and a former hearings examiner and Public Interest Counsel with that agency (now known as the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality). We are especially proud that Mary Sahs was recently selected by her peers for inclusion in the 2009 and 2010 editions of “The Best Lawyers in America” in the field of water law. Mary Sahs is also a co-editor of West’s Texas Practice Series, Environmental Law volumes.
Our environmental law practice also includes experience in business and real estate transactions that have environmental implications. We work closely with corporate and real estate attorneys to ensure that environmental risks and liabilities are identified and considered in the negotiation of our clients' transactions.
Our environmental clients include:- Landowners
- Municipalities
- Regulated businesses and entities
We work in the areas of:
- Air
- Dry Cleaner Remediation Fund
- Hazardous Waste
- Injection Wells
- Innocent Owner Operator Program
- Petroleum Storage Tanks
- Sludge applications
- Solid Waste
- Superfund
- Water Quality
We do transactional work such as:
- Access agreement negotiation
- Compliance audits
- Due diligence and auditing
- Sale, purchase and lease of contaminated (Brownfield) properties
We do regulatory work such as:
- Enforcement defense
- Permitting
- Protestant representation
