Developing Renewable Energy on Contaminated Land: Regulatory Challenges and Protecting Against Liability Exposure

Ms. Heiple focuses her practice on environmental, energy and natural resources law. She advises clients on a wide range of litigation and transactional matters, and provides strategic counsel on project development and compliance with federal and state requirements.

Ms. Hodge focuses her practice on project development and acquisition financing transactions. With deep industry experience, she is skilled in advising clients with complex development considerations and project models. Ms. Hodge represents private equity sponsors, strategic investors, utilities, oil and gas companies, and renewable project developers. Her transactional experience includes solar, storage, wind, hydro, biomass, and manufacturing assets, in addition to power market and supply contracts. Ms. Hodge also has extensive experience negotiating engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contracts and contract manufacturing agreements.

Mr. Seitz handles a wide range of environmental, health and safety matters, including regulatory counseling, complex litigation and transactions. He has particular experience in advising corporate and public sector clients regarding complex regulatory compliance and enforcement issues arising under the major federal environmental, health and safety statutes, including the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Clean Water Act, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act, the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act.

Ms. Hemmings advises clients in the power and renewable energy space on a variety of transactional and regulatory matters. She has experience in the acquisition and divestiture of energy and infrastructure assets, including, battery, solar, wind and conventional power facilities. Ms. Hemmings has counseled sponsor and lender-side clients in project, corporate and acquisition financings. She has provided clients with guidance on FERC regulatory issues connected to the sale and purchase of electric power facilities.

Mr. Lass represents clients in the energy, environment and natural resources space facing interactions with regulators, investigations and litigation.