Environmental Law
For 50 years, the lawyers of Murray Plumb & Murray have successfully guided their clients through the maze of environmental land use and regulation. Long before other Maine law firms began exploring environmental law, our attorneys acquired extensive experience dealing with all of the major local, state, and federal regulatory agencies.
Environmental law is complex territory to explore without an experienced guide. It requires specialized and comprehensive knowledge even to know which agencies have jurisdiction over a project or property – let alone what permits are needed or what regulations are controlling.
Our experienced practitioners have helped navigate – and even create – the new regulatory world in which energy and environmental issues converge. We’ve worked with clients to develop complex renewable energy projects from project finance, construction, and permitting to energy generation and purchase; launch electric vehicle programs; and develop green building projects.
We represented a coalition of individuals, property owners, and townships in the West Forks area in opposition to the proposed NECEC transmission corridor, a large-scale project involving extensive state and federal regulatory review and significant land use considerations. We’ve also defended our clients in actions ranging from prosecutions for violating municipal setback regulations to potentially crippling Superfund clean-up suits.
We’ve resolved claims including illegally-filled wetlands, leaking underground storage tanks, illegal subdivisions, hazardous wastes at an abandoned tannery, gasoline contamination of water supplies, and myriad zoning violations. Our lawyers handle site remediation, represent parties in environmental clean-up litigation under Superfund and Maine state clean up laws, defend companies penalized for violating environmental standards, advise companies on how to comply with complicated environmental regulations, and represent developers on brownfield redevelopment matters.
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