Overview

Svend Brandt-Erichsen focuses his practice on the development and ongoing operation of energy and natural resource projects.  He advises companies on permitting, compliance, regulatory development and other issues arising under all of the major federal environmental statutes, as well as their counterparts in a number of states, with a particular emphasis on air, water, waste and wildlife.  He routinely handles appeals involving environmental matters in federal and state courts.

Svend has helped companies obtain a wide range of environmental permits and approvals, appealed permits when necessary, and defended them from third party challenges.  He has helped clients obtain use of federal lands and litigated challenges to those uses as well as broader issues of federal land management.  He has helped assure compliance with the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) and its state counterparts and litigated claims under those statutes.

Svend has represented clients participating in rule development, challenging regulations in federal and state court, and intervening to defend rules after successfully obtaining favorable decisions from regulators.  He also regularly defends clients against enforcement actions and citizen suits under multiple federal environmental statutes and their state counterparts and has defended against toxic tort claims, including several class actions.  He has successfully assisted companies in responding to contamination of soil, water, and marine and freshwater sediments and has litigated cost recovery and natural resource damage claims under federal and state law, as well as under common law theories.

Before joining Nossaman, Svend served as Managing Partner of the Seattle office of a boutique environmental law firm.  He began his career on the legislative staff of Alaska's Senator Ted Stevens and served as a Regional Administrator of the State of Alaska's Department of Environmental Conservation.

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