Environmental Remediation
Experience
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Negotiated a RCRA closure plan with Ohio EPA to resolve contamination issues arising from leak of chromium transfer line.
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Represented former owner of an Ohio elastomers manufacturing facility in joint efforts with subsequent owner to address environmental cleanup issues, including residential vapor intrusion risks.
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Represented the owner of a former battery manufacturing plant on the Hudson River with respect to post-cleanup disputes with U.S. EPA regarding sufficiency of cleanup.
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Represented the owner of a former electronics manufacturing facility with respect to various remedial issues in an urban Superfund site, including a joint venture with a municipality to provide treated water for distribution through in the municipality’s drinking water system, investigating the nature and extent of groundwater pollution sources within the operable unit, assessing the risk of vapor intrusion into residences, and implementing source remediation work.
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Negotiated risk-based RCRA Subtitle C groundwater closure standards for a former municipal landfill located in southeastern Ohio.
- Appealed conditions attached by Ohio EPA to a client’s risk-based clean closure plan for a former hazardous waste storage area at its synthetic rubber pilot plant, leading to a negotiated closure approval.
- Coordinated the work of a client’s environmental consultant to clean up areas of solvent, petroleum, and metal contamination at a former Illinois metal stamping facility.
- Negotiated an agreement among a client and other site operators for funding and coordination of solvent contamination cleanup work at a site with commingled groundwater contaminant plumes from multiple Silicon Valley electronics manufacturing facilities.
- Negotiated the RCRA risk-based clean closure approval for a former torpedo manufacturing facility in Cleveland, Ohio.
- Represented a former Ohio bearings and copper foil manufacturer in negotiations with Ohio EPA over the remedial actions for several former manufacturing plants and the consent orders to implement those cleanups.