Charlie Denton represents an array of clients in environmental and toxic tort litigation, enforcement defense, regulatory compliance solutions and pollution insurance coverage disputes. He also serves as an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) neutral mediator and arbitrator. Persistent and highly collaborative, Charlie can take complicated issues and challenges and then identify a strategic path to achieve the client’s objectives.
Charlie’s representation of industrial, municipal, institutional, educational and individual clients includes judicial and administrative environmental proceedings at the federal, state and local levels. He also represents policyholders involved in environmental coverage claim disputes and litigation with millions of dollars in the balance.
In addition, Charlie assists clients with managing environmental risks in commercial transactions, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, as well as ISO 14000 environmental management systems. He advises on lender liability issues and environmental audits to assess potential facility contamination and regulatory compliance for the acquisition and financing of real estate, as well as waste management and remedial actions, environmental permits enforcement, and defense of citizens’ suits.
Charlie serves as a zealous advocate for his clients, focusing on their specific strategic goals and finding solutions that solve their immediate and long-term challenges. Charlie makes a point of understanding his clients’ core objectives from the onset of representation to keep their environmental matter in perspective.
Charlie serves as a federal court arbitrator/mediator/neutral evaluator, a state court facilitative mediator, and an arbitrator and mediator for private ADR proceedings. When serving as a neutral, Charlie remains personally dedicated to finding a balanced approach to dispute resolution that meets the needs and interests of the parties involved. Charlie is valued for his thoughtful understanding of the underlying business and legal issues that permeate every dispute, as well as for his calming approach to resolving the people challenges and emotional aspects that underlie most acrimony. An active listener, Charlie serves as a catalyst to working constructively with even the most disparate parties to achieve a reasonable outcome.
Charlie is actively involved with key industry, legal and environmental associations, often in leadership roles. He is the author and co-author of several publications highlighting environmental law topics, and gives frequent presentations for the American Bar Association, Michigan Chamber of Commerce, and State Bar Associations for Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin
More Legal and Business Bylines From Charles M. Denton
- Start Your Clocks: EPA Publishes Greenhouse Gas Rules for Utilities - (Posted On Friday, October 23, 2015)
- EPA Failure to Consider Costs Results in U.S. Supreme Court Striking Down the Mercury Emissions Rule for Power Plants - (Posted On Thursday, July 09, 2015)
- Going, going… EPA Eliminates Another Source of Startup, Shutdown and Malfunction Exemptions from Clean Air Act - (Posted On Friday, June 12, 2015)
- Are We Seeing a Revival in Michigan Environmental Insurance Coverage? - (Posted On Friday, June 05, 2015)
- Another New Arrangement from EPA Designed to Settle Some Older Scores - (Posted On Wednesday, April 22, 2015)
- Same Tune, New Steps: Dancing Through U.S. EPA’s Update to its Policy on Supplemental Environmental Projects - (Posted On Thursday, April 09, 2015)
- Michigan “Lame Duck” Legislature Again Revises State Environmental Cleanup Requirements - (Posted On Tuesday, January 27, 2015)
- EPA Releases Final Rule To Distinguish Recycled Products From Solid Waste Under RCRA Subtitle C - (Posted On Monday, December 22, 2014)
- How Low Will It Go? EPA’s Proposal to Lower Ozone Limit May Leave Many Counties in Nonattainment - (Posted On Thursday, December 18, 2014)
- Phase I Environmental Site Assessments: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Proposes to Drop 2005 American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Standard from All Appropriate Inquiry (AAI) Rule - (Posted On Thursday, June 19, 2014)