Author Description

How to Avoid Environmental Litigation is a pragmatic book. Environmental issues are described here in an easy-to-understand manner. Yet, there is enough meat on the bone to understand the environmental legal and regulatory implications of owning, renting, or leasing real estate. And now, here is the Second Edition, with environmental regulatory and case updates, plus completely new chapters on mold, vapor intrusion, remedial technology developments, AND appropriate new legal defenses to liability. These defense strategies can result in funding site investigations AND cleanups rather than succumbing to the inevitable financial disaster that can befall those who are burdened with hazardous substance liability as either owners or operators (or both). This book presents the authors' practical advice-based upon experience-in a useful format that both informs and teaches. The authors simplify environmental issues to permit easy understanding. Buy this book if: - YOU'RE A LAWYER who wants to know more about environmental issues and litigation strategy pertaining to the prosecution and defense of environmental claims; - YOU OWN A BUSINESS or have a CLIENT that generates or handles hazardous waste and want to be proactive about educating yourself and taking precautions for employees and customers; - YOU have issues with COMMERCIAL or INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY-large or small, or suspect a tenant may have created an environmental problem; - YOU'VE gotten a call from the EPA, a state or local environmental regulator, or your landlord regarding environmental contamination; or, - YOU WANT HELP navigating the arcane insurance issues related to environmental contamination liability. This book will help you ask the right questions to get the correct useful answers you need to solve the problems you're confronting.