Environment
As India’s corporate sector faces growing environmental compliances and CSR requirements, Krishan Kumar guides its clients through India’s environmental laws, case law, and latest policy developments of relevance to the corporate sector from a long-term risk management perspective.
We help clients chalk out a compliance strategy – obtaining or renewing environmental permits under the various laws including those relating to the use and management of water, air, forests, chemical substances, hazardous wastes, e-waste, plastic waste, construction & demolition waste, bio-medical waste, ozone depleting substances, insecticides as well as food safety laws. Moreover, our lawyers regularly interact with the respective government agencies supervising these different sets of environmental laws, including the departments in charge of issuing import/export approvals.
We assist companies with their environmental due diligences and assessments of whether an Environmental Clearance / Environmental Impact Assessment needs to be obtained.
Clients are guided through their interactions with the State Pollution Control Boards (SPCBs), the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and the central Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC).
The firm is skilled in turning around challenging non-compliance situations, such as in a company’s immediate post-merger or acquisition phase, or after receiving show cause notices from SPCBs.
Our environmental lawyers throughout India also assist manufacturing companies with obtaining all permits to set up their units, including all EHS-related consents and clearances, fire compliance, factories’ law compliances, local body approvals, etc. Our team takes pride in assisting its clients while maintaining highest ethical standards.
Our team monitors closely all environmental cases handled by the National Green Tribunals, High Courts and the Supreme Court, thereby also offering seamlessly integrated legal services to our corporate clients.
We have successfully defended clients in several high-stake litigation cases against government agencies.