Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Developments: Discovering Opportunities and Challenges
Widespread environmental damages to waterways and properties due to hazardous substances continue to bring health risks and negative effects on the U.S. economy. To alleviate the problem, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has established national rules and strengthened existing controls of disposal and discharge, particularly those contaminants that can pollute waterways, groundwater, drinking water, and the air, such as coal ash and trichloroethylene.
Any violation could result in toxic tort litigation, which is complex and can take years to resolve. To avoid pitfalls, municipal and industrial entities should monitor the EPA’s enforcement efforts to structure an effective compliance strategy aligned with their public services and businesses.
Listen as experienced environmental lawyers Catherine W. Anglin, Esq. (Paine | Tarwater | Bickers, LLP) and David R. Gillay (Barnes & Thornburg, LLP) provide a comprehensive discussion of the recent developments in toxic torts and environmental law. The speakers will dig deeper into its implications among regulators and other concerned organizations. They will also offer effective compliance strategies in this high-stakes area of law.
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Attorney Paine Tarwater Bickers, LLP
Catherine W. Anglin Attorney Paine Tarwater Bickers, LLP Catherine Anglin focuses her civil litigation practice on complex toxic tort and products liability litigation, environmental law, health & safety, and construction law. In asbestos litigation she represents both product and premises defendants. Catherine has experience in a full range of environmental law matters, including Brownfields projects, sinkholes, mold, and landfills. Similarly, she has experience related to the full suite of potential contaminants – from coal combustion residues (“CCRs”), PFAS, VOCs, SVOCs, and metals to nitroaromatics. Her work in these fields is buttressed by the 13-year career she enjoyed as an environmental consultant prior to practicing law. Catherine received her law degree from the University of Tennessee in 2009 and her Bachelor of Science degree from Georgia Tech in 1996.
Partner at Barnes & Thornburg, LLP
David leads Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s Environmental department’s remediation, redevelopment, and environmental transactions practices. He has focused on the legal, regulatory, and technical impact and implications related to the vapor intrusion pathway, chlorinated VOCs (with an emphasis on TCE), and potential long-term stewardship obligations related to environmentally challenged properties. David supports the Firms’ Toxic Torts practice group and works closely with nationally-known experts on a wide array of technical issues. David was recently elected to join the American Association of Radon Scientists and Technologists (AARST) Board of Directors and continues to serve as counsel of record for the Midwestern States Environmental Consultants Association (MESCA). Prior to joining Barnes & Thornburg, he obtained an advanced environmental engineering degree and practiced as an environmental consultant on various projects across the country. Also, I can be reached at 317-231-7474.
