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Environmental regulations and dramatic changes in energy and resource development have the potential to impact every business. This reality, coupled with intensifying focus on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues, create potential risks and opportunities. When the world’s leading companies need help navigating this space, they turn to Warner for trusted and strategic environmental counsel that will allow them to comply and thrive. From manufacturing to mining and natural resource development, Warner leverages its expertise and experience to deliver best-in-class legal representation to its clients.

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Confidently Carving New Paths for Our Clients

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Blazing trails in business can often seem like crashing through too much tangled brush. It can be easier to wait and go second, to let someone else clear the path. We see this as a lost opportunity. Our clients don’t settle for second place, and they don’t have that sit-around-time to waste. So, we regularly tackle and master “first impression” matters in this space – from unusually complex permitting challenges and new regulatory programs to novel chemical cleanups or the completion of projects like the first new primary nickel mine in the United States. We’re comfortable going first. The others can follow.

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From Start up to Clean Up, and Everything in Between

We have a profound understanding of state and federal environmental enforcement, and how those requirements impact your operations. From land acquisition and permitting, to the disposal or cleanup of hazardous waste, Warner’s broad experience and critical ability to sub-specialize position us optimally to handle regulatory compliance, transactional or dispute-related environmental issues – of any size or magnitude, and across all industries – for our clients.

We Know This Landscape – Let Us Be Your Guide

Resources, energy and environmental issues are not only complex legally, but also politically and from a policy and governmental perspective. Warner has one of the largest groups of natural resources, energy and environmental attorneys in Michigan and the Upper Midwest – comprising hard-core regulatory lawyers, lobbyists and litigators, ready to team up and scale up to meet your needs. Where the rules don’t exist, our government group helps to write them.

Both capable and connected, Warner can walk you from the halls of the legislature, to city hall, to the desks of the regulatory administrators and back to your office and boardroom – always with the goal of getting you where you want to go.

What We See on the Horizon for Resources, Energy and the Environment

Reach out to your Warner team for the latest insights into the following – as well as other horizon issues:

As manufacturing and industrial corporations continue to innovate, despite all efforts, environmental issues will always arise. PFAS is one such issue currently facing businesses – even more so in light of a recently unveiled (October 2021) and sweeping EPA PFAS plan. New regulations are coming. To avoid potential financial consequences or business interruption, let Warner help you shore up your PFAS compliance and cleanup practices and procedures.

Emerging Permitting and Enforcement Trends

When facing an industry-wide enforcement initiative, environmental Justice-driven scrutiny, or “old-fashioned” NIMBY opposition, Warner has guided various clients through the continually evolving rigors of defending and expanding clients’ business interests. We can guide you, too.

Finding Opportunity in Supply Chain Challenges

Well beyond chips, supply chain challenges aren’t going away anytime soon. Rather than rail against it, how can resource providers strategically position themselves in this market? Paired with the push towards decarbonization and the move to electric vehicles (EV), some are looking back to the Henry Ford days, envisioning a captive mining output that would go straight into the battery factory in a seamless, vertically integrated fashion. We share your vision and are known for our mining and automobile manufacturing muscle – let us put both to work for you.

The Ongoing Uncertainty of National Environmental Policy Act Review

As our clients well know, this is an area that is always in flux, involving executive authority over projects and potentially changing with every administration. Discussions about streamlining the process have intensified once more. Let us join, and help direct, these conversations for you.

Are You a Customer? Let Warner Help You Get It Right

Are you looking to purchase green energy credits, or to put solar panels on your roof? While we are supplier-only in the automotive space, in the environmental arena we also fully handle demand-side matters. In fact, in some of our areas of sub-specialty such as representing industrial energy customers in managing their choice of service providers arguably no other lawyers in Michigan are as qualified as Warner.

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21 Warner Attorneys Rated 2022 Top Lawyer by DBusiness

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105 Warner Attorneys Rated Best Lawyers in America©

12 Warner Attorneys Named Lawyers of the Year

Warner Welcomes Three New Attorneys

Troy M. Cumings Joins Board of Hispanic Center of West Michigan

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Charles N. Ash Jr.

Paralegal

Kimberly “Kim” Bankeroff

Jared T. Belka

Of Counsel

Jeffrey W. “Jeff” Bracken

Associate

Paul D. Bratt

Kurt M. Brauer

John V. Byl

Ashley G. Chrysler

Troy M. Cumings

Daniel K. “Dan” DeWitt

Dennis J. Donohue

Daniel P. “Dan” Ettinger

Gaëtan Gerville-Réache

Christopher J. “Chris” Predko

Michael L. “Mike” Robinson

Devin S. Schindler

Eugene “Gene” E. Smary

Margaret C. “Maggie” Stalker

Senior Counsel

Michael A. “Mike” Stone

Warner OESA Legal Corner Article: If You Aren’t at the Table, You May Appear on the Menu: Opportunities and Pitfalls for Emerging Environmental Programs

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Resources, Energy and Environmental Law

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<li>Permitting, compliance, and enforcement for air, waste, or water</li>
<li>Brownfield management, cleanup and remediation</li>
<li>Project development/economic incentives</li>
<li>Advocacy and Lobbying</li>
<li>Due diligence and self-auditing</li>
<li>Mining and natural resource development</li>
<li>Regulation of “new” chemicals</li>
<li>Energy development, including solar, water, and wind</li>
<li>Land use and zoning</li>
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