PFAS 2024 Update: Regulatory and Scientific Developments, Increasing Litigation, Insurance Issues

Ms. Phillips concentrates her practice in litigation, regulatory, energy and environmental law. Her environmental practice focuses on brownfields redevelopment and remediation, including former military installations, former manufactured gas plants (MGPs) and vapor intrusion sites. Ms. Phillips regularly advises developers, lenders and investors in real estate transactions involving contaminated property, enforcement defense, regulatory compliance, due diligence, and complex project development and permitting matters, including those under NEPA and the NPDES, among others. She regularly advises clients – including municipalities, industry and construction contractors – subject to federal and state environmental regulation, including the TSCA, CWA, RCRA, CERCLA, and CZMA, as well as many state law counterparts. As former assistant general counsel for Suez LNG North America LLC and its wholly owned subsidiary, Distrigas of Massachusetts LLC, Ms. Phillips was involved in all aspects of regulatory compliance for the nation's oldest, continuously operating liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal, including safety and security.

Mr. Denton represents an array of clients in environmental and toxic tort litigation, enforcement defense, regulatory compliance solutions and pollution insurance coverage disputes. His representation of industrial, municipal, institutional, educational and individual clients includes judicial and administrative environmental proceedings at the federal, state and local levels. He also represents policyholders involved in environmental coverage claim disputes and litigation with millions of dollars in the balance. In addition, Mr. Denton assists clients with managing environmental risks in commercial transactions, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, as well as ISO 14000 environmental management systems. He advises on lender liability issues and environmental audits to assess potential facility contamination and regulatory compliance for the acquisition and financing of real estate, as well as waste management and remedial actions, environmental permits enforcement, and defense of citizens’ suits.

Mr. Claffey provides leadership in program management, site investigation and remediation technology, and technical sales, and has over 32 years of environmental consulting industry experience, including research and development of innovative technologies. He is a site investigation and remediation technology subject matter expert (SME) and provides leadership around traditional and emerging contaminants in the environment, including chlorinate volatile organic compounds and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), respectively, in drinking water, wastewater, groundwater, biosolids and other media. As an SME within Ramboll’s PFAS team, Mr. Claffey focuses on identifying and developing new technologies that effectively destroy emerging contaminants. He also provides leadership in building relationships with academia and other technology developers to make leading edge technologies available to address traditional and emerging contaminant issues. Mr. Claffey's responsibilities include client account development and management, site remediation planning and studies, sales planning, risk management, technology transfer, and program management duties in securing projects, strategizing approaches, and driving sites to cleanup and closure.