Legislative and Regulatory Analysis and Innovation

• Analysis of bi-national and multi-national protocols;
• Analysis of environmental legislation pending in the U.S. Congress, and State Legislatures;
• Analysis of international legislation independently and in comparison to U.S. law;
• Analysis of environmental regulations and policy guidelines proposed by agencies of Federal Governments, State Governments and regional entities worldwide;
• Analysis of Member State environmental liability statutes and regulations;
• Preparation of comments in response to rule-making actions.

Projects Include:

• Summarized Federal and State groundwater management practices for a national business group and recommended a position on pending Federal ground water legislation;
• Preparation of multiple sets of comments on the Department of the Interior and other government-proposed rules related to Natural Resource Damage Assessments for individual companies, industry groups, and industry-wide;
• Prepared joint comments on the Department of the Interior's rules on Natural Resource Damage Assessments proposed under “Superfund” for three industrial companies;
• Provided input to briefing documents for the Congress and the Administration on wide-ranging environment, energy and natural resource topics for multiple clients;
• Preparation of comments in response to United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) draft guidelines on environmental liability.