Svend Brandt-Erichsen

Practice Areas

Svend Brandt-Erichsen focuses his practice on the development and ongoing operation of energy and natural resource projects. He advises companies on permitting, compliance, regulatory development and other issues arising under all of the major federal environmental statutes, as well as their counterparts in a number of states, with a particular emphasis on air, water, waste and wildlife. He routinely handles appeals involving environmental matters in federal and state courts.

Svend has helped companies obtain a wide range of environmental permits and approvals, appealed permits when necessary, and defended them from third party challenges. He has helped clients obtain use of federal lands and litigated challenges to those uses as well as broader issues of federal land management. He has helped assure compliance with the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) and its state counterparts and litigated claims under those statutes.