The firm helps clients resolve a wide range of environmental issues. The firm advises clients, represents them before administrative agencies, and litigates issues relating to permitting, environmental compliance and due diligence, environmental impact review, water and wastewater discharges, stormwater, contaminated soil and groundwater, air quality, hazardous waste, toxic torts, insurance coverage, and liabilities under the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Endangered Species Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA; Superfund), California Porter-Cologne Act, California Fish and Game Code, California Carpenter-Presley-Tanner Hazardous Substance Account Act, California Proposition 65, and other California and Nevada statutes.

We have represented clients on issues before the Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Environmental Appeals Board, California State Water Resources Control Board, California Coastal Commission, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, State Lands Commission, California Energy Commission, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, California Office of Historic Preservation, United Nations, local air pollution control districts, regional air quality management districts, regional water quality control boards, cities, counties, and special districts. We are particularly well known for our expertise in Clean Water Act issues.