Environment

About

Provided by Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Nearly 30 years ago, Bass, Berry & Sims developed the first full-service environmental practice in Tennessee and continues to be recognized as a leading source for guidance on a broad range of environmental matters. Our environmental attorneys represent clients in litigation, transactional and regulatory matters concerning:

• Air and water pollution
• Hazardous and solid waste
• Toxic and other regulated substances
• Underground storage tanks
• Superfund, RCRA and UST remediations
• Brownfields and land use restrictions
• Drinking water treatment and source protection
• Water rights
• Health and safety
• National Environmental Protection Act
• Climate change and sustainability

In addition to having extensive experience with environmental laws and regulations, our environmental attorneys have strong contacts and good working relationships with key technical personnel in all divisions of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC), as well as many of the groups at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, particularly U.S. EPA - Region 4 in Atlanta.

Our attorneys routinely play an active role in the creation and reform of environmental laws and regulations, including portions of Tennessee's air and water pollution regulations, Superfund laws, state hazardous and solid waste laws, state UST laws and regulations, state groundwater classification rules and the state's Drycleaner Environmental Response Program.