Environmental & Land Use

Environmental and land use challenges continue to be among the most important and potentially costly issues facing the business community. Alston & Bird’s environmental and land use practice provides forward-thinking advice on a new generation of issues -- climate change and carbon control, chemical facility security and hazardous waste transportation. We continue to help clients mount successful defenses to aggressive environmental claims, and have handled some of the largest, most complex environmental and land use matters in the nation.

EXPERIENCE

Alston & Bird’s environmental and land use lawyers are experienced, creative and credentialed and have a proven record of tackling these issues for clients across the country and across the globe.

Environmental and Citizen Suit Litigation
Regulatory Compliance, Enforcement and Permitting
Climate Change/Carbon Management
Environmental Crimes Defense
Hazardous Materials Transportation
Land Use Approvals and Entitlements
Land Use Litigation
Business Transactions
Nanotechnologies/Emerging Pollutants

RECOGNITION

We are leaders in our field. Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business describes the group as “a phenomenal group at the top of the industry,” in addition to selecting five attorneys as leaders in the field of environmental law. One of our partner’s national preeminence was confirmed by his selection as the 2007-2008 chair of American Bar Association’s Section on Energy, Environment and Resources. On climate change and carbon management, we have unparalleled experience counseling clients, and we can boast world leadership including our role helping establish Clean Development Mechanisms for the government of Ethiopia.

WHY ALSTON & BIRD?

Our breadth and depth of experience and expertise across the wide range of environmental, toxic tort and land use issues in unparalleled among similar groups at law major firms.