Examples of Tanya’s experience include:

Litigation

• Counsel to American insulation company in state PFAS contamination suit, involving common laws claims.
• Counsel to global heating, ventilation and air condition corporation in CERCLA cost recovery and contribution action litigation related to PCB contamination and remediation.
• Represent multinational tire manufacturer in enforcement action and CERCLA cost recovery and contribution action litigation related to metals contamination.
• Represented New Mexico municipalities in cost recovery action to remediate municipal water supply contaminated by hazardous substances used by private company.
• Led Fifth Amendment takings litigation involving a $56 million-dollar partial settlement of over 30 just compensation claims involving the East Lake Sammamish Trail in Sammamish, Washington.
• Obtained partially favorable ruling on summary judgment for Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service decisions creating a master development plan and well-pads for the exploration and development of oil and gas in the Colorado River Basin.
• Defended two lawsuits bringing National Environmental Policy Act and Federal Land Policy and Management Act challenges regarding the Bureau of Land Management issuance of leases for the development of oil and gas in Southwest Colorado.

Compliance Counseling

• Advise importer, wholesalers, distributors and manufacturing companies on compliance with Extended Producer Responsibility laws.
• Advise national and multinational corporations on California Climate Related Disclosure Laws and Voluntary Carbon Market Disclosures.
• Advise and counsel multinational corporation on greenwashing risks associated with new product launch in North America.
• Successfully represented multinational automotive parts manufacturing company in CalRecycle inquiry related to California’s Rigid Plastic Packaging Container law.
• Provide risk management counseling to national manufacturing company on federal and state PFAS regulations.
• Advised multinational home appliance manufacturer of litigation and regulatory risks associated with zero-waste-to-landfill environmental benefit claims on facility and product level.
• Successfully advised investment company on environmental risks associated with purchase of a former sawmill site.

Enforcement Defense

• Represented national transportation company in response to the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Resource Conservation and Recovery Act’s hazardous waste compliance order and successfully obtained reduced penalty violation.
• Represented national petroleum company in defense against EPA investigation and incident response to oil spill in San Francisco harbor.
• Successfully settled and negotiated penalties in EPA enforcement action for industrial stormwater permit compliance under the Clean Water Act.