Environmental Law Overview
Morgan Lewis is active in all major areas of environmental law, including air and water protection, hazardous wastes, chemical substances control, community right-to-know, OSHA, environmental impact statements, coastal zone protection, endangered species, and atomic energy and radioactive materials. In this overview of environmental legislation, we highlight those features of interest to many of our clients.
- The Clean Air Act
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
- Superfund
- Clean Water Act / Oil Pollution Act of 1990
- Safe Drinking Water Act
- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
- Toxic Substances Control Act
- Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act
- Federal Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act
- Occupational Safety and Health Act
- National Environmental Policy Act
- Freedom of Information Act
- Endangered Species Act
- Coastal Zone Management Act
- Coastal Barrier Resources Act
- Atomic Energy Act
- Energy Reorganization Act
- Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act

