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 attorney has 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. 

Our environmental law practice 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 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
  

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