Jeanine is a top-rated Massachusetts environmental lawyer with extensive experience in air, water, and waste issues arising within a variety of industrial sectors.
Solving puzzles is what Jeanine enjoys most about environmental law. She likes taking a complicated set of facts hidden in environmental reports and unpacking the information until the key legal issues are revealed.
When providing advice to clients, Jeanine listens for what they need—whether it’s a quick and actionable answer, a trusted counselor, or a gut check—in addition to their legal questions. She also approaches the practice of law as a marathon, not a sprint, since experience has taught her that a fresh challenge always awaits unseen over the horizon.
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Jeanine’s practice focuses on environmental compliance counseling, environmental permitting of energy and brownfields redevelopment projects, and managing environmental risk in complex transactions, such as through environmental insurance products. She advises, counsels, and defends clients in industries including power generation, chemical production, and solid waste disposal, among others.
Jeanine’s career highlights include working with a client to develop a path to closure under Massachusetts cleanup law for a historic release of trichloroethylene (TCE) at a former manufacturing site redeveloped for residential use. She also negotiated with the Massachusetts Attorney General the first-ever amendment of a Covenant Not to Sue to include a parcel of land being acquired by a client.
Jeanine clerked at the Connecticut Supreme Court for former Chief Justice Ellen A. Peters and has lectured on Massachusetts cleanup law and environmental risk insurance.
She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Licensed Site Professionals Association (LSP), an organization dedicated to professionals who investigate and remediate contaminated properties in Massachusetts. She is the first lawyer to serve on its board.
More Legal and Business Bylines From Jeanine L.G. Grachuk
- Massachusetts Moves To Assume Control of Clean Water Act Program as EPA issues Disputed MS4 Permit - (Posted On Thursday, July 07, 2016)
- Updates on the Site Cleanup Program in Massachusetts – TCE, Urban Fill and More - (Posted On Thursday, July 07, 2016)
- Gasoline with Lead is not Subject to the Petroleum Exemption in Massachusetts Clean-Up Statute Says Top Massachusetts Court - (Posted On Thursday, July 07, 2016)
- Comments Due August 15 on EPA Proposal to Remove Emergency Defense from Title V Operating Permit Regulations - (Posted On Friday, June 24, 2016)
- Does Your Toxic Release Inventory Make You Target for Enforcement? - (Posted On Thursday, March 24, 2016)
- Nonprofits Seeking to Use Brownfields Tax Credits Beware: Directive Gutted by Massachusetts Superior Court Remains Online Without Notice - (Posted On Monday, March 21, 2016)
- Double Counting and Inflexibility Are Unreasonable in 4A Negotiations Says Mass. Appeals Court: Court Affirms Award of Attorneys’ Fees under Chapter 21E - (Posted On Sunday, March 20, 2016)
- Accutest Laboratories New England Notifies Clients of Potential Data Concerns - (Posted On Monday, March 07, 2016)
- Update on Reopening TCE Sites in Massachusetts - (Posted On Monday, March 07, 2016)
- MassDEP Issues Final LNAPL Guidance - (Posted On Monday, March 07, 2016)