Legislators, regulators, institutional investors and the public are sharpening their focus on environmental justice, a term used to describe redress of the disproportionate impacts of environmental harms in minority and low-income communities and for indigenous populations. Our team helps businesses navigate the current focus on environmental justice and related corporate governance, ethics and compliance, environmental enforcement, project development and permitting, and litigation issues.

Our experience includes: 

• Assembling and analyzing corporate benchmarking information and providing an overview of environmental justice principles that can be used to inform business strategy.
• Evaluating corporate operations to identify related challenges and opportunities.
• Drafting, reviewing and implementing corporate policies on social and environmental justice.
• Evaluating communications and disclosures related to environmental justice and developing communication strategies. 
• Addressing increased enforcement and litigation risk associated with community impacts.
• Responding to congressional and regulatory investigations and enforcement actions related to environmental justice.
• Representing clients in litigation involving claims that implicate environmental justice, working to efficiently settle matters and, if necessary, bringing in our top-tier trial teams to resolve matters in court. 
• Counseling on opportunities to leverage environmental justice leadership across various industries.
• Training company leadership and employees on environmental justice.
• Developing strategies on facility siting, community engagement and investment, facility upgrade project management, employment, and procurement.