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Environmental Coalitions
The collective voice of business is often more persuasive than one or two lone company voices, particularly when the industry voice represents thousands of company, employee and shareholder opinions forged into a thoughtful consensus. Our environmental coalitions give our clients effective tools in advocacy efforts, as well as avenues to track new legislation, regulatory initiatives and litigation trends. Our groups afford interactive platforms to benchmark emerging issues and industry responses--in a time-sensitive and cost-effective manner.Most popular related searches
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Our environmental coalitions include:
International Coalitions:
- Business and Environmental Laws in Latin America Group (BELLA)
- BELLA provides companies an opportunity for tracking environmental laws and regulations in Latin America. The group also serves as an active participant in formulating and enacting environmental legislation, rulemaking and policy development.
- Red Interamericana de Especialistas en Legislacion Ambiental (RIELA)
- RIELA is cost-effective network of law firms representing a number of jurisdictions throughout the Americas that serves as an environmental resource and provides competent in-country law firms when specific legal representation is needed.
Federal and State Coalitions:
- The Class of ‘85 Regulatory Response Group
- The Class of ‘85 is composed of approximately 30 investor-owned, municipal and co-operative electric generating companies from around the country. Since implementation of the 1990 CAA amendments, this group has actively participated in enacting environmental legislation, rulemaking and policy development.
- The Texas Industry Project (TIP)
- The Texas Industry Project consists of 64 companies, including a number of Fortune 100 companies, in a wide variety of industries with operations in Texas. For nearly 30 years, this group has leveraged its members’ collective voice on a number of environmental agency proceedings.
- BCCA Appeal Group (BCCAAG)
- BCCAAG includes a number of petroleum chemical manufacturers, and other large industrial companies. BCCAAG is involved in a number of advocacy issues, including a recent legal settlement aimed at resolving the long-standing gap between state air quality permitting programs and federal approvals. In an earlier proceeding BCCAAG commissioned a study demonstrating that proposed new regulations that would cost Houston businesses $13.8 billion in new capital expenditures, was not as effective a strategy for reducing Houston’s ozone. BCCAAG’s efforts succeeded in achieving significantly more cost-effective emissions controls and lessened the negative effect on the Houston economy.
- The 8-Hour Ozone Coalition
- The 8-Hour Ozone Coalition is a broad industrial coalition focused on honing atmospheric modeling and other tools used to develop current and future strategies to reduce ozone in Houston and other Texas areas.