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Our attorneys are called upon to handle our clients’ most challenging issues arising under the Clean Water Act (CWA). We help them manage complex permitting projects and approvals (NPDES, 404-wetlands, and Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), storm water, pretreatment, WQBELs, and coastal zone management (CZMA), plan for minimizing oil and hazardous substance release liability (SPCC) and drinking water liability (SDWA), and engage in advocacy before EPA and state agencies on the development or revision of (CWA) regulations.
When litigation becomes necessary, our clients engage us to defend enforcement actions and citizen suits, respond to EPA information requests, challenge federal regulations, and contest EPA enforcement orders.
Our capabilities at a glance
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Hear from our clients and industry leaders
The whole team is super smart. They are all really easy to work with and then know our business inside out. They come to us proactively with issues and are incredibly responsive.
Chambers & Partners, UK Guide, 2025
An intellectually brilliant and commercially astute public law team. One of the very best in the city.
Chambers & Partners UK 2025
Hogan Lovells has a high capability in solving complex issues that involve both legal and technical perspectives.
Chambers & Partners, Germany, 2025
The lawyers are just experts. They are there when you need them and happy to entertain all my questions. They understand the wider context and the politics and sensitivities of it.
Chambers & Partners, UK 2025
Representative experience
We represented the State of Florida in actions brought by the United States and others concerning discharges of phosphorus into the Florida Everglades.
We represented the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in drafting legal comments on EPA’s proposed definition of “waters of the United States.”
We represented an operator of public wastewater treatment systems charged with civil and criminal CWA violations in connection with a facility in Gary, Indiana.
We successfully challenged EPA’s authority to regulate storm water runoff from a large poultry growing operation in West Virginia.
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