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Environmental

The Environmental Practice is active in complex environmental litigation and involved in some of the nation’s leading cases.  We represent large manufacturing companies and power utilities in recovering multimillion-dollar cleanup costs.  The practice has strength in cost recovery, enforcement issues, toxic torts, and citizens’ suits.  We also routinely manage project development involving wetlands, obtaining and challenging permits, and property development and redevelopment, including brownfields. 

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Matters  / Case Studies
  • Represented KeySpan Energy in a cost recovery case for cleanup costs at one of the largest coke plants in the world.
  • Represented the Park District of Oak Park, Illinois relating to contaminations resulting from a manufacturing gas plant that operated at the turn of the century. Successors to the plant, Nicor and Commonwealth Edison Company, are bearing the costs, now approaching $150M, for the forced clean up of the area known as Barrie Park.
  • Represented the waste generators at the PCB Treatment, Inc. sites located in the Kansas City, MO metropolitan area in all negotiations with the U.S. EPA regarding the clean up efforts of PCB containing materials in its facilities.
Matters /  Case Studies
  • Barrie Park

    When the Park District of Oak Park turned to Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP environmental lawyers for help in obtaining cleanup of a public park, their most challenging problem was how to protect their limited budget from environmental costs and liabilities. Several years later, after the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Cooper Industries v. Aviall Services, Inc., 543 U.S. ___, 125 S.Ct. 577 (Dec. 13, 2004), pre-cleanup planning for environmental cost recovery became the most important "new" issue in environmental law.