Ellery Richardson is a member of the firm’s Environment, Land, and Natural Resources practice group with extensive experience in brownfield redevelopment and solid and hazardous waste issues. She has a comprehensive understanding of the technical and legal process for rehabilitating contaminated property. Her practice includes environmental due diligence, permitting, legislative and regulatory policy, regulatory compliance, government enforcement, administrative agency negoitations, waste issues in manufacturing, and land use matters. She has worked on a range of federal and state issues surrounding the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and their state counterparts.
She has negotiated countless brownfield voluntary agreements and land use restrictions to allow for the safe reuse of contaminated properties. Ellery’s practice also includes navigating landfill permitting, beneficial reuse, recycling, and other issues around solid waste and its infrastructure. With a background in geology, she works closely with professional geologists and engineers on managing contaminated soils and other media at often large and complex development and construction sites, closing the gap between the legal and techncial.
