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Practice Areas
Environmental
Green Business
Litigation
Experience
Gregg provides clients with advice on environmental requirements and obligations and assistance with recovery of environmental costs. He has significant experience performing environmental due diligence for real estate purchase and leasing transactions and dealing with issues associated with the cleanup, purchase, sale and development of contaminated properties, such as the negotiation and drafting of contracts and contractual provisions to address responsibility for investigation, cleanup and indemnity. Gregg has assisted clients with the coordination of environmental consultants, negotiations with environmental agencies and efforts to obtain financing and insurance for contaminated property. Gregg is also experienced in all stages of litigation, up to and including trial, with emphasis in the areas of environmental and business lawsuits. He has worked on several cases at the appellate level.
Prior to practicing law, Gregg spent six years working for the Environment, Health and Safety Department of Texaco Refining and Marketing, Inc. as a chemical engineer. While there, he gained experience developing compliance programs for California and Federal OSHA Process Safety Management and Risk Management and Prevention Program regulations. He participated with compliance investigations and the subsequent actions, handled applications for air permits, Title V permitting, emission reporting, applications for emission reduction credits, CERCLA and EPCRA reporting requirements, as well as spill response and clean-up requirements. At that time, he was also active on several technical committees for the Western States Petroleum Association.
Gregg's litigation experience includes CERCLA cost recovery, nuisance and toxic tort, business disputes, employment discrimination and Americans with Disabilities Act matters. Gregg has handled government inspections, obtained permits and variances and settled notices of violations issued under of a wide variety of environmental, health and safety standards, including the California Accidental Release Prevention program, the federal Clean Air Act, state and federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards and rules and regulations adopted by the California Air Resources Board and various Air Quality Management Districts. He has lectured on risk management planning under the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments and on regulations for the permitting, use and reimbursement for remediation of contamination from petroleum underground storage tanks.
Education
Loyola Law School; J.D., cum laude (1996)
Long Beach State University; B.S., Chemical Engineering (1991) | 