Experience

• NiSource
  Schiff Hardin attorneys represented NiSource Inc. in the sale of Whiting Clean Energy, Inc. to BP Alternative Energy North America, Inc.
  


• GreyStone
  Attorneys in Schiff Hardin's Washington, D.C. office assisted a rural electric distribution cooperative with a five-year $600 million power purchase and scheduling agreement.
  


• Entergy Retaliation Suit
  Schiff Hardin attorneys successfully defended their client, a nuclear power plant operator, in an appeal involving alleged retaliation against a former employee.
  


• Washington Gas Light
  Schiff Hardin successfully appealed adverse Federal Energy Regulatory Commission orders before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Of Columbia Circuit on behalf of our client.
  


• Groundwater Superfund Site
  Schiff Hardin represents a coal-fired electric utility in connection with the investigation of alleged releases of coal ash constituents to groundwater.
  


• Dynegy
  Schiff Hardin defended two Illinois electric companies in a government enforcement action, navigating a complex web of discovery and motions over several years, including obtaining a favorable ruling on the applicability of the statute of limitations.
  


• Public Utility
  Schiff Hardin represented a power trading unit and its public utility parent in the successful litigation of a $35 million fraudulent transfer and preference claim.
  


• Brownfields Redevelopment Sale
  Schiff Hardin assisted a client, an energy distributor, with the sale of a contaminated property to a redevelopment company. The complex transaction culminated with the developer's successful application and award of public redevelopment funds.
  


• CAA Title V
  Schiff Hardin defended a power generator in federal appeals court when the Illinois attorney general and environmental groups tried to block issuance of Clean Air Act Title V permits.
  


• Illinois Mercury Rulemaking
  Schiff Hardin represented several coal-fired electric generation companies contesting the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rule to regulate emissions of mercury in Illinois.
  


• Illinois CAIR Rulemaking
  Schiff Hardin represented several large coal-fired power plants opposing certain aspects of Illinois EPA's proposal to comply with the federal Clean Air Interstate Rule.
  


• West-coast utility
  Schiff Hardin's Environmental Group successfully obtained a dismissal for its client from a lawsuit based upon alleged violations of the Clean Water Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
  


• MGPs
  Schiff Hardin worked with the client, a gas distribution company, and its environmental consultants to address potential environmental liabilities associated with a former Manufactured Gas Plant site.
  


• PCBs
  Schiff Hardin assisted two major natural gas distribution companies in disclosing to the U.S. EPA the discovery of PCBs within their gas distribution systems.
  


• Biomass Plant
  Schiff Hardin helped strategize the conversion of a old municipal waste incinerator into a biomass-to-energy facility, the first of its kind in the state of Illinois.
  


• Thermal Water Standards
  Schiff Hardin assisted a client, a power company, in securing from the Illinois Pollution Control Board an order modifying the thermal limits applicable to its cooling water discharge at one of its power stations.
  


• NIPSCO
  Schiff Hardin attorneys represented Northern Indiana Public Service Company in the purchase of Sugar Creek Power Company, LLC from a subsidiary of LS Power Fund.
  


• Public-Private Partnership
  Schiff Hardin assisted a public-private partnership with a carbon sequestration project, evaluating competing sites for a first-of-a-kind coal-fueled, near-zero emissions power plant.
  


• Petroleum Terminal Operator
  Following an EPA order for remedial action against our client, Schiff Hardin secured an affirmative coverage determination with the client's insurer, and subsequently persuaded the agency to drop its demands against our client.
  


• Toxic Tort Claims
  Schiff Hardin represents a coal-fired electric utility in a Superfund matter involving groundwater contamination allegedly arising from the historic placement of coal ash in and near a northwest Indiana town.
  


• Section 401 Certification
  Schiff Hardin's client, a power company, needed to obtain approval for the movement of additional water to a manmade lake that was used as a cooling source for its power plant.