To successfully compete in the modern world requires not only effective business planning, but also effective compliance with an ever more diverse assortment of environmental rules and regulations. As Congress, State governments, and various administrative agencies enact ever more rigorous technical statutes and regulations, businesses and individuals are faced with the onus of successfully navigating this ever increasing maze of controls. All businesses and local governments require expert legal counsel to address compliance requirements and investigations involving air and water quality, hazardous waste disposal, liability for contaminated property, natural resource damage, pesticide use, and toxic torts. In addition, where legitimate property interests are affected by government actions, either directly or through a "regulatory taking", competent counsel is needed to defend property interests as protected by the United States Constitution.

Baise & Miller lawyers counsel clients and litigate cases in the fundamental areas of environmental and land use law including the Clean Air Act (CAA), the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (Superfund), the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), the Oil Pollution Act (OPA), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), and Fifth Amendment Takings.

With an average of 30 years experience, Baise & Miller lawyers are particularly adept at handling cases with large and technically complex records. Our lawyers are knowledgeable about environmental issues on the cutting edge and are very often instrumental in shaping the initial public debate of these same issues. They teach enviromental law courses and write environmental law books and articles. Mr. Miller, in particular, is the author and editor of the Environmental Law Handbook, now in its fourteenth edition.