Environmental Law Attorneys Ben A. Hagood, Jr. Wendy L. Wilkie Our environmental practice provides clients with environmental services in the areas of compliance counseling, transactional work, permitting, and complex litigation. The firm’s current practice includes counseling and representing individuals, companies and governmental agencies in environmental litigation and contested matters including CERCLA, RCRA and other environmental causes of action; representing buyers or sellers in the purchase and sale of contaminated property; representing private clients in environmental compliance issues, environmental compliance training, and defense of civil and criminal enforcement actions. We also counsel clients about the environmental aspects of real estate development. Our Work: Serving as environmental counsel to several different development groups engaged in redeveloping contaminated property in the Charleston neck area into mixed use commercial and residential developments; Advising clients on the applicability of the Bona Fide Prospective Purchaser exception to CERCLA liability and the use of state Non Responsible Party Voluntary Cleanup Contracts in the purchase of contaminated property; Representing private parties in negotiating administrative resolutions of waste and air enforcement issues; Representing private clients in conducting internal investigations and defending criminal enforcement actions involving waste, air and vessel pollution issues; Outside litigation counsel to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control in various cases including Safety-Kleen Pinewood, Inc., et. al. v. Bradford W. Wyche, State of South Carolina, et. al., 274 F.3d. 846 (4th Cir. 2001).

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