Environmental, Carbon Markets & Clean Technology
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The firm's environmental practice includes advice and representation in regulatory and legislative matters, litigation, and transactional work throughout the United States and abroad. Our environmental practice focuses on compliance advice, civil and criminal enforcement proceedings and citizen suits, environmental aspects of business transactions, and in rulemaking proceedings and appellate challenges to regulations. We represent clients on matters raising novel and complex issues, often of national and international importance.
Covington’s Carbon Markets & Climate Change Practice focuses on the business challenges and opportunities created by emerging climate change regimes, i.e., legal instruments aimed at countering the effects of increased concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHG’s) in the Earth’s atmosphere. In a carbon-constrained world, companies that are early to adopt cleaner energy technologies, or that can claim credit for reducing emissions of GHG’s, will have a competitive edge. Covington assists clients in evaluating, managing, and planning for the diverse effects of climate change initiatives.
Covington’s clean technology (or “cleantech”) practice focuses on companies that are innovators in the efficient uses of energy, water, and materials, and in the mitigation or avoidance of contamination and other environmental risks. We represent early-stage venture and private equity investors in these companies, as well as cleantech entrepreneurial and expansion-stage companies in their ongoing businesses. Our cleantech practice draws on the capabilities of our energy, intellectual property, and transactional practices, our practices in the environmental and carbon markets area, and our knowledge generally of the venture and private equity markets.
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