Allen Matkins counsels and represents clients in matters involving the management, disposal and cleanup of solid waste and hazardous wastes, substances and materials under a variety of laws, including:
- Federal environmental laws, including CERCLA and RCRA
- California’s Health and Safety Code
- California’s nuisance, trespass and ultra-hazardous activity laws
EXPERIENCE
- Major Manufacturer. Represented major manufacturer and related entities in connection with alleged perchlorate and TCE contamination of a Southern California groundwater basin.
- Major Oil Company. Represented a major oil company in the alleged contamination of a northwestern river for its entire 15 mile course. Preliminary assessments of the sediments in the river has caused some potentially responsible parties to estimate that the remedial investigation of the river itself will cost between $60 and $80 million with the cleanup potentially costing multiples of this number. The client is one of more than 100 potentially responsible parties.
- Oil and Gas Company. Represented oil and gas company in administrative civil liability complaint for $8.5 million arising out of beneficial reuse of crude oil impacted soils from operating oil field as road mix under Central Coast RWQCB waiver program for waste discharge requirements.
- Power Tool Manufacturer. Represented power tool manufacturer, a third party defendant and alleged generator of hazardous wastes in long-running litigation in federal district court.
- Port District. Represented port district in an administrative enforcement action brought by the RWQCB against numerous alleged dischargers to address metals, PCBs, tributyltin, among other contaminants of concern.
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