AltmanNewman Information

AltmanNewman Co., LPA is focused on environmental law and its impact on citizens, their families, communities, and local governments. AltmanNewman works on behalf of private and public clients (including individuals & families, neighborhood groups, environmental organizations, businesses, water and solid waste associations, non-profits, and state, regional or local governments) to stop pollution or obtain cleanups using available state and federal legal tools. Our firm handles cases involving: • Water, property, and groundwater • Air pollution and air nuisance • Drinking water pollution • Sewer pollution, including basement backups and sewer overflows • Chemical right-to-know, chemical release and explosion • Unlawful actions, permits, and rules • PFAS, the toxic “forever chemicals” • Environmental and climate justice Since the early 1980s, AltmanNewman has achieved groundbreaking and impactful environmental victories against a variety of public and private polluters causing pollution of air, streams, rivers, lakes, groundwater, drinking water and land, by historic dumping and hundreds of other pollution-causing practices. Most of these cases were brought under the citizen suit provisions of federal environmental laws that allow citizens to sue private polluters or governmental agencies in order to enforce environmental statutes and regulations. There is a citizen suit provision in each federal environmental law, and in some state laws. These provisions allow everyday citizens to stop pollution and obtain investigations and cleanups of contaminated land and water. When citizens win at least some of the relief they desire, they can usually recover legal fees and litigation costs from the polluter. Citizen suits have become especially important as federal and state agencies have shifted their priorities away from enforcing the environmental laws and protecting those affected by pollution. THIS IS AN ADVERTISEMENT.