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Mr. Cohen has practiced in the energy and environmental field since 1980, first at the United States Environmental Protection Agency, and then at the U.S. Department of Justice. Since 1988, he has been in private practice primarily representing developers, and manufacturing and industrial clients, financial institutions and utilities.
Mr. Cohen has experience in all areas of energy and environmental law, including utility and environmental litigation, utility and environmental permitting, environ-mental counseling, and the environmental implications of real estate and business transactions. In addition, Mr. Cohen has experience in administrative hearings, practicing before the Connecticut Siting Council, the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control, Office of Health Care Access, and many local wetlands, planning and zoning boards.
Representative Matters
• Mr. Cohen worked on Brownfields redevelopment efforts, including the redevelopment of the Raymark Industries, Inc. superfund site in Stratford, Connecticut.
• Mr. Cohen’s practice includes assisting clients with the environmental and permitting implications of transactions involving large, multi-national corporations, as well as the environmental and permitting implications involved in acquisitions and divestitures under the new utility deregulation statutes.
• Mr. Cohen is representing various national clients in environmental remediation efforts in New England and throughout the United States. These efforts include both remediation compelled by a Governmental entity and private party actions.
• Mr. Cohen has been involved in dozens of Superfund matters for both large multi-national companies and smaller, de minimus parties.
• Represents a manufacturing client in a Federal criminal environmental investigation under the Clean Water Act and the Resource Conservation Act.
• Represented a major railroad car manufacturer in a successful precedent-setting litigation matter involving liability for environmental clean up.
• In 2007, Mr. Cohen represented several large industrial clients in structuring and negotiating corporate transactions worth over $2 billion. These large transactions had significant environmental implications.
• Mr. Cohen represented a quasi-governmental entity in obtaining a permit for the expansion of its ash landfill.
Publications
• Frequent author on a wide range of environmental issues.
Speaking Engagements
• Frequent lecturer on a wide range of environmental issues.
Awards & Honors
• Consistently listed in Woodward/White Inc.'s The Best Lawyers in America for Environmental Law and Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business
• Listed in New York Magazine as one of the best environmental lawyers in the New York Metropolitan area (2005 and 2007)
Bar Admissions & Memberships
• Admitted, Connecticut and District of Columbia Bars
• Member, Connecticut Bar Association, American Bar Association
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