Experience

Clean Energy
Power plant site selection and regulatory counsel
Schiff Hardin assisted a public-private partnership with a carbon sequestration project, evaluating competing sites for a first-of-a-kind coal-fueled, near-zero emissions power plant.

Remediation of Manufactured Gas Plants
Real Estate Acquisition and Redevelopment; Voluntary Remediation Projects
Schiff Hardin worked with the client, a gas distribution company, and its environmental consultants to address potential environmental liabilities associated with a former Manufactured Gas Plant site.

Toxic Tort Claims Successfully Settled
Toxic Tort Litigation; Ash Management
Schiff Hardin represents a coal-fired electric utility in a Superfund matter involving groundwater contamination allegedly arising from the historic placement of coal ash in and near a northwest Indiana town.

Public Utility and its Power Trading Unit
Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights
Schiff Hardin represented a power trading unit and its public utility parent in the successful litigation of a $35 million fraudulent transfer and preference claim.

FERC Orders Vacated in Favor of Client
Petition for review of FERC orders
Schiff Hardin successfully appealed adverse Federal Energy Regulatory Commission orders before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Of Columbia Circuit on behalf of our client.

Remedial Action at Petroleum Terminal
Defense of EPA enforcement action
Following an EPA order for remedial action against our client, Schiff Hardin secured an affirmative coverage determination with the client's insurer, and subsequently persuaded the agency to drop its demands against our client.

Navigating the Clean Air Act
New Source Review (Air)
Schiff Hardin defended two Illinois electric companies in a government enforcement action, navigating a complex web of discovery and motions over several years, including obtaining a favorable ruling on the applicability of the statute of limitations.

Groundwater Superfund Site
CERCLA Remediation
Schiff Hardin represents a coal-fired electric utility in connection with the investigation of alleged releases of coal ash constituents to groundwater.