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The Biden Administration’s Environmental Justice Policy Agenda: First Steps to Identify How Your Project Fits in the Landscape

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By Maribel Nicholson-Choice & Libretta Stennes on February 9, 2022
Posted in Environmental Justice, Environmental Social & Governance (ESG), EPA, Featured, Infrastructure

The Biden administration has prioritized environmental justice and taken steps in this area that impact businesses with U.S. operations. In a Jan. 24, 2022 speech, EPA Administrator Michael Regan spoke on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding to replace lead pipes in Wisconsin and across the county. He remarked that “the tragedy of lead exposure is shared by too many communities, especially Black and Latino communities.” He further committed, “[t]he EPA is committed to using every tool available to eliminate this injustice.”

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Justice have announced plans to strengthen environmental enforcement and incorporate environmental justice issues into project permitting and environmental reviews. The EPA’s EJSCREEN is a public environmental justice screening and mapping tool that can help you identify your project’s environmental and demographic indicators. This national database allows companies to locate their property and other regulated sources of pollutants with demographic indicators. Companies can input their address, and EJSCREEN provides environmental and demographic information for that address. This tool can assist companies in analyzing the synergistic effect of regulated sources of environmental contaminants in and around a neighborhood. Companies can also use EJSCREEN data to evaluate their potential risk of environmental justice concerns and possible claims in advance of litigation to be better prepared for addressing environmental justice matters.

Shareholders Maribel Nicholson-Choice and Libby Stennes further discuss environmental justice in an episode of the Greenberg Traurig E2 Law Podcast series, “2022 Evolving Environmental Law – Environmental Justice Checklist for Businesses.”

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Photo of Maribel Nicholson-Choice Maribel Nicholson-Choice

Maribel is a shareholder with Greenberg Traurig’s Tallahassee office with a concentrated practice in local government, environmental, and land use law.

With 30 years of experience which includes local government, environmental, land use, brownfields, construction with an emphasis in negotiating and resolving complex…

Maribel is a shareholder with Greenberg Traurig’s Tallahassee office with a concentrated practice in local government, environmental, and land use law.

With 30 years of experience which includes local government, environmental, land use, brownfields, construction with an emphasis in negotiating and resolving complex environmental permitting, due diligence, and litigation matters, Maribel serves as environmental and land use counsel on multi-million-dollar projects and transactions. She advises lending institutions on environmental liability, including permitting and remediation projects associated with collateral property subject to foreclosure proceedings. She counsels regulated clients on complex litigation matters. Her practice includes counseling and litigation on environmental aspects in real estate transactions, commercial foreclosure proceedings, bankruptcy cases, environmental investigations, remediation projects, brownfields development, and evaluating risks and costs associated with potential environmental cleanup and third-party liability, as well as on regulatory and permitting technical aspects of complex contamination remediation projects.

Additional experience includes advising local government boards and negotiating settlement of all types of complex environmental violations with federal, state and municipal governmental agencies. Maribel’s key clients include property owners, Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, banks and local governments.

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Libby Stennes has over 25 years of experience litigating high profile toxic tort, mass tort, and products liability matters, including groundbreaking cases shaping trends in class actions and emerging contaminants. Her cases often involve health and safety issues facing global scrutiny, bans, or…

Libby Stennes has over 25 years of experience litigating high profile toxic tort, mass tort, and products liability matters, including groundbreaking cases shaping trends in class actions and emerging contaminants. Her cases often involve health and safety issues facing global scrutiny, bans, or recalls in highly regulated industries such as chemical manufacturing, pharmaceutical and medical device, agribusiness, and infant products. Libby has substantial experience in corporate crisis management for matters involving reputational threats, market exit, supply chain disruption, catastrophic accidents, widespread contamination, and chemical exposure safety.

Libby is among the first toxic tort litigators in the country to address PFAS claims and has been involved in all aspects of litigation defense and policy development. She negotiated a groundbreaking complex settlement agreement and oversaw all aspects of implementation of water treatment, community health studies, and a medical monitoring program. She has defended multiple environmental litigations, building complex expert defense to defeat class claims and obtain summary judgment. Her PFAS practice extends beyond litigation, as she is often sought out to counsel clients with regulatory, compliance, or due diligence needs.

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