Evelyn Enciso's Contact Details

Evelyn Enciso's Company Details

Environmental General Counsel LLP

Berkeley, California, United States • 1 - 10 Employees
Legal Services

Environmental General Counsel LLP is an environmental boutique law firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area. We offer enforcement, compliance, and transaction-related environmental services. EGC represents a wide range of industries, including bio/pharma, energy, consumer products, food processing, high tech, industrial, recycling, and real estate. Our clients include Fortune 500 and S&P 500 companies, publicly-traded companies, privately-owned companies, family businesses and trusts, and others.OUR VISION Catherine Johnson and Laurie Berger established EGC to create a better platform for the practice of law. EGC's business model fosters teamwork and collaboration, places a premium on client service rather than billable hours, and provides the flexibility we need to better meet client objectives. EGC can cost-effectively manage conventional environmental services but we are also prepared to handle more complicated and challenging projects. Streamlined Services: EGC has front-loaded the legal work for targeted practice areas; we have conducted in-depth research, consulted with environmental regulators, collaborated with leading consulting firms, created templates and checklists, brainstormed together, and developed scopes of work for certain projects. We offer these services with specific time-frames and end-goals.Seasoned Judgment: EGC has extensive experience assisting clients with challenging situations that require practical advice and seasoned judgment. We help clients respond to emergencies, such as releases of asbestos-containing materials, air-borne lead-based paint, and vapor intrusion. We have special expertise with environmental audits for domestic and international companies, and decades of experience handling environmental aspects of real property and facility acquisitions.Broad-Based Experience: Each EGC attorney has worked on a wide variety of environmental matters. Collectively, we have over 120 years of experience; we have practiced with Big Law, served as counsel for regulatory agencies, and represented publicly-traded companies as in-house counsel. PRACTICE AREAS Contaminated properties, vapor intrusion, Maher Ordinance, brownfieldsProp 65, compliance, enforcementCompliance auditingStormwater, permitting, compliance, and enforcementEH&S compliance policies and programsEnvironmental audits, including ISO 14001Truck & Bus RegulationLender liability, insolvency, and bankruptciesUSTS, cleanup fund applications and reimbursementSolid and hazardous wastes, universal and electronic wastes, landfillsPermitting, enforcement, and complianceEnforcement, Notices of ViolationDue diligence and transactions, complex cleanup agreementsCERCLA, RCRA, TSCA, Porter-Cologne, Clean Air Act, Clear Water ActAsbestos, lead-based paint, mold, methane gas, pesticidesHazardous Materials (CUPA, Cal/OSHA)Occupational Health & Safety (OSHA, Cal/OSHA)Product regulationsPollution Legal Liability PoliciesAre you ready for changes to Prop 65's safe harbor warning requirements? Under new regulations effective August 30, 2018, safe harbor warning language must now identify specific chemicals and comply with other new requirements. To assist our clients prepare, we have developed a series of slide decks, Prop 65 Basics, available on our webpage. In addition, we provide News Briefs about new rules or developments. Join our mailing list if you would like to receive notices about new slide decks from our Prop 65 Basics Series, or copies of News Briefs.