John D. Edgcomb

Practice Areas

John has experience in many areas of environmental law, including substantial CERCLA experience dating back almost to CERCLA’s inception. He continues to be involved in several cutting-edge CERCLA matters. John has made two successful appellate arguments concerning CERCLA issues to the Ninth Circuit. He assists clients throughout the US at several multi-million dollar clean-up and site closure proceedings in negotiations with federal and state agencies. John has also counseled numerous clients on managing environmental risks in real estate transactions, either partially or fully remediated, including drafting environmental liability allocation terms. John also has experience in working with insurance brokers and underwriters to procure and manuscript environmental liability policies and in pursuing claims on those policies. Additionally, John has experience representing clients at complex third-party disposal sites (e.g. landfills, drum handling sites) as part of, or adverse to, potentially responsible party groups. He has experience handling natural resource damage claims, including his participation in the settlement of one of the earliest such claims asserted in the 1980s. He has continuing involvement in complex estuarine claims. John’s wide-ranging environmental practice extends to several other areas as well, including hazardous materials transportation, land use and zoning litigation, and surface mining issues.