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Grant Gilezan's comprehensive practice includes regulatory compliance and reporting, transactions, policymaking, and litigation. Beyond the law and facts of each matter, however, he understands the liability and opportunities that public and private sector clients face. As the head of Dykema’s Environmental Practice Group and a gifted deal-maker, Grant delivers realistic, cost-effective solutions to environmental problems and disputes. Besides the economic costs of site cleanups, remediation, brownfield development, and land transfers and decommissions, clients often encounter reputational and political issues, too.

In what may be its first opportunity to test the waters of federal agency influence after the fall of Chevron deference, on October 16, 2024, the Supreme Court heard arguments in City and County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency. This case comes to the Court after a divided Ninth Circuit panel rejected a challenge to the EPA’s authority to enforce the Clean Water Act (“CWA” or the “Act”), 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq., through “general narrative prohibitions” spelled out in permits issued under the EPA’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (“NPDES”) permitting program.Continue Reading Navigating the New Landscape of Clean Water Regulations: Supreme Court Weighs in on EPA’s Authority Amidst Shifting Deference Standards