National Leaders in Climate Policy & Resilience Planning, We Help Clients Anticipate and Adapt to a Changing Environment
Climate change issues will continue to impose escalating demands on businesses for the foreseeable future.
With expertise in all the substantive areas of domestic and international environmental law implicated by the regulation and reduction of GHG emissions, Marten attorneys are at the forefront of developing climate change law and policy.
Led by former senior officials at the White House and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Marten’s team brings a science-based perspective on climate change adaptation, providing strategic counsel to energy producers, manufacturers, forestry companies, utilities, and developers on how to anticipate and plan for regulatory changes, including the need to incorporate climate impacts into permitting strategies, energy procurement, and environmental reviews. We help clients maximize the business opportunities presented by the increasing expectation of green corporate culture and sustainable operations and supply chains, as well as deliver the comprehensive resilience plans necessary to ensure that land use, sea level rise, water quality/water supply, and energy mix impacts do not affect their bottom line.
Capabilities:
- Greenhouse gas reporting requirements
- Climate Resilience Planning
- Clean Air Act permitting
- Renewable Portfolio Standards
- Emissions offset policies tied to sequestration of carbon in forests, agricultural lands, or deep underground
- Legal implications of climate adaptation issues, such as planning for increased water needs in a drier watershed, the challenges of building new transmission lines to deliver new renewable energy to cities and towns, and revising land use standards to bring about emission reductions.
- Corporate Social Responsibility/Green Business Culture
- Sustainable Supply Chains
- Circular Economy
Our Managing Partner, Brad Marten, also serves as General Editor of the LexisNexis Climate Change Practice Series, comprising over 15 standalone pamphlets that include:
- Federal Climate Change Law
- Treatment of Greenhouse Gases Under the Clean Air Act
- Treatment of Greenhouse Gases Under the National Environmental Policy Act
- Treatment of Greenhouse Gases Under the Endangered Species Act
- Regional Carbon Markets
- State-by-State Greenhouse Gas Regulations
- International Climate Treaties
- Cap and Trade: Law and Economics
- Renewable Portfolio Standards
- Solar Power: Law and Economics
- Climate Change and Water Resources
- SEC and Climate: Disclosure Requirements
- Insurance Law for Climate Related Claims
- Carbon Offsets
- Carbon Capture and Sequestration
- Greenhouse Gas Tort Litigation
- California Greenhouse Gas Law and Regulation
- Biomass: Law and Economics
- Wind Power: Law and Economics
