|
Litigation
Services
A founding goal
of limiting our staff size to a core of experienced environmental
professionals has allowed PNG to build a solid practice in
the expert witness/litigation support arena. Starting with
expert evaluation and oversight of cleanup activities in Oregon
and Southern Washington, our practice has grown to include
sites throughout the western U.S. Typical tasks in these litigation
projects include:
- Review of incurred
and claimed cleanup costs
- Independent
development of past and future site investigation and cleanup
costs (based on PNG's hands-on experience),
- Regulatory analyses
related to agency mandates,
- Defining the
extent of a cleanup through application of applicable standards
and development of risk-based site-specific standards to
affected media,
- Research of
historic site practices including extensive historical aerial
photography analyses,
- Environmental
forensics such as source identification, timing of releases,
and determining the fate of chemicals,
- Evaluation of
NRDA damages, and
- Development
of allocation and contribution positions.
For these environmental
projects PNG routinely manages
technical discovery, performs expert evaluation of other consultant
investigation and cleanup efforts, and develops independent
remediation scenarios and costs based on applicable federal
and state standards and guidance. We often are able to apply
practical, risk-based analyses to existing site data and develop
alternative remedial schemes. PNG has extensive experience
with preparation of deposition outlines, declarations and
interrogatories, mediation materials, and trial exhibits.
The foundation for our testimony in mediation and trial is
built on the active investigation and cleanup work our staff
has been conducting for over 25 years.
|
------------------------------------------------------------
