Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging: Compliance With Multistate Producer Obligations

Mr. Fowler provides comprehensive regulatory services to energy sector clients, advising them on regulatory matters and, when necessary, representing clients before regulatory bodies including the NRC, FERC, OMB, EPA and OSHA. He frequently provides due diligence for investments into energy technology developers, ensuring that regulatory aspects are thoroughly evaluated and addressed. Mr. Fowler also partners with clients in developing targeted strategies for engagement on emerging issues, with a holistic view of legislative, agency and political issues, to address and mitigate potential regulatory impacts.

Ms. Meek assists clients with environmental litigation and enforcement actions involving permitting, reporting, compliance, and liability issues. Her experience covers a wide range of matters before federal agencies including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACE). Ms. Meek also assists with cases before myriad state and local agencies in California, including the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle), the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR), California Regional Water Quality Control Boards (RWQCBs), the California Air Resources Board (CARB), and the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD). She has specific experience with litigation, trial preparation, and compliance matters involving the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund), the Hazardous Substances Account Act (HSAA) and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Ms. Meek also helps clients evaluate the extent of environmental exposures and whether they face liability as potentially responsible parties for releases of chemicals of concern in air, water, soil, and other environmental media. 

Ms. Torbitt co-leads the Food, Beverage & Agribusiness and Environmental teams and is active in maritime matters. She focuses on environmental compliance and transactional due diligence, counseling a large range of manufacturers, developers (including renewable energy projects), and financing parties to find solutions and mitigate and allocate the risk associated with all aspects of environmental law, including the latest developments from emerging contaminants (PFAS) to controversial subjects like vapor intrusion attenuation factors.

Mr. Zarghamee advises U.S. and international clients on a vast array of environmental and sustainable finance matters, including the strategies for performing compliance audits, devising remediation strategies, responding to governmental investigations, defending against enforcement actions, chemical regulation, toxic torts litigation defense, transactional due diligence, devising remediation strategies and SEC disclosures. He heads Pillsbury’s efforts in the field of chemical regulation and emerging contaminants, and co-chairs the firm’s Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Task Force. Mr. Zarghamee's experience in the field of chemical regulation is particularly diverse and encompasses work under federal statutes, such as the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), as well as state laws, such California’s Prop 65.