The team at Mayer Brown is highly sought after for its experience litigating environmental matters, particularly those to do with tort claims and those falling under the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act. The practice is co-led from Chicago by Mark Ter Molen, who handles enforcement matters and regulatory hearings and appeals conducted before state and federal agencies, Rich Bulger, who co-leads the environmental action group representing clients in environmental, toxic tort, and administrative law matters, in addition to Timothy Bishop , who has extensive experience handling water contamination issues. Also based in Chicago, Jaimy Hamburg is recommended for her wide practice which encompasses a spread of toxic tort suits, class actions, citizen suits and government enforcement actions.

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'Extensive environmental experience combined with very good business judgement.'
'An ability to listen, process, and communicate.'

Key clients

Veolia
National Pork Producers Council
American Farm Bureau Federation
Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, Inc.
Foster Farms
US Sugar Corporation
Cross Refined Coal

Work highlights

Representing Veolia S.A. and its US subsidiary, Veolia North America (VNA), in one of the highest-profile group of cases in the US in connection with the Flint Water Crisis, and obtained a mistrial in the first case to go to trial after 6-1/2 months.
Secured a victory for the US Sugar Corporation when our team persuaded the court to stay the effective date of a new EPA rule that sought to retroactively apply significantly more stringent emissions limits for “new” industrial boilers.
Representing a dozen major industry groups in litigation in district courts across the country in a continuing legal effort to ensure that “Waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act (CWA) are reasonably defined by EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers.