Counsel, Austin

Practice Description

Elizabeth A. Webb focuses her practice on environmental law and environmental litigation. Her counseling practice encompasses such matters as the application of hazardous waste regulations to various plant operations and environmental and city code enforcement concerns in real estate transactions.

Ms. Webb also represents clients before local environmental agencies and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and in judicial litigation in Superfund enforcement actions.

Representations

• Assisted in the representation of a tire manufacturer in a CERCLA lawsuit where the government sought reimbursement of costs incurred in connection with a site and an injunction for defendants to remediate the site; assisted in developing and evaluating the remedies proposed to the court and participated in creating an allocation scheme to allocate costs at the site

• Client counseling regarding the application of hazardous waste regulations to various plant operations; client counseling and judicial litigation in Superfund enforcement actions; environmental and city code enforcement concerns in real estate transactions; and representation before local environmental agencies and the United States Environmental Protection Agency

Press Releases/In the News

• "New Deals," Texas Lawyer; August 06, 2007
  

Presentations/Publications

• Client Alert: Supreme Court Rules on "Arranger" Liability and Divisibility of Harm Under CERCLA, June 09, 2009
  

• "Environmental Law," 2003 Annual Survey of Texas Law of the SMU Law Review, Summer 2004
  

Activities

• Member, American Bar Association; Natural Resources, Energy, and Environmental Law Section

• Member, Austin Bar Association; Administrative Law Section