Environmental, Real Estate, and Litigation Counsel

Where Finance Meets the Environment: N.W. Bernstein & Associates, LLC's lawyers have environmental, real estate, financial and litigation experience to help clients solve multi-disciplinary environmental problems, including structuring environmentally sensitive business transactions and planning for EPA's new and upcoming regulations that will affect a wide range of commercial and industrial activities. We can provide advice on traditional US environmental matters such as CERCLA, Brownfield redevelopment, the Clean Water Act, RCRA citizens' suit defense, and on challenging proposed new government regulations. We have relationships with counsel in London, Frankfurt, and Mexico City that provide us with a strong UK/EU/Mexico environmental and financial capability, including regarding financings on the London Alternative Investment Market (AIM). Our Primer on the Global Carbon Markets (updated April 2012) provides an overview of the $122 billion carbon markets, analyzes in detail the EU system and provides a summary of emerging US state compacts on Greenhouse Gases. Contact the firm for a copy. Regarding mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, toxic tort defense, commercial property purchases, or sales or leases that have environmental issues, contact the firm.

Latest Developments:

April 24, 2012 - An updated memorandum on EPA's NAAQS ozone standards now includes information about EPA's new Ozone Advance program and is available here.

April 6, 2012 - N.W. Bernstein and Associates, LLC released its updated Primer on the Global Carbon Markets. Click here to read the Primer.

February 16, 2012 - EPA's final Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) rule was published in the Federal Register. The rule is effective on April 16, 2012.

February 7, 2012 - EPA issued a "no action assurance" letter to the effect that it would not be enforcing notification deadlines from the March 2011 Boiler Rules, but EPA said nothing about emission reduction deadlines. This letter was a response to the January 9, 2012 decision by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to vacate and remand EPA's earlier delay notice of the original, March 2011 Boiler Rule. The Court ordered that the original rule go into effect immediately. Based on a three-year compliance period starting from the promulgation date of the original rule, boiler units would have to meet the new hazardous air pollutant standards by March 2014.

December 2, 2011 - EPA proposed an amended Major Source Boiler Rule that included a "reset" of compliance deadlines for existing sources based on the completion date of the proposed amended rule.

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