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Wisconsin Environmental Law Attorneys

Garvey McNeil & McGillivray's Environmental & Land Use attorneys have the knowledge and experience to protect our land, air and water. Our attorneys represent clients challenging problematic local land uses including giant "big box" stores; standing up to wealthy utility corporations; opposing polluting factory farms; and fighting to clean up contaminated land and water. GMM has a unique combination of political and legal experience that positions us to provide unparalleled representation for individuals, citizens' groups, environmental organizations, tribal interests, and local governments when the health of their environment and their families is at stake.

Ensuring Clean Air & Standing Up to Utility Corporations

Representing the Sierra Club, a national conservation group, and Clean Wisconsin, a statewide environmental organization, Garvey McNeil & McGillivray fought in federal court against a Green Bay, Wisconsin power plant for violations of the Clean Air Act. We also help these organizations to stop new coal-fired power plant construction in Wisconsin and throughout the United States, and to ensure that if any power plants are built, they use technology that will reduce harmful emissions that add to global warming, create smog, and contaminate lakes with mercury.

We sued to require the state's largest energy utility to put on modern pollution controls on its old, dirty coal plants in the heart of Milwaukee and to cut pollution limits for another plant nearly in half.

We sued to require the UW-Madison to either shut down or install modern pollution controls on its coal-fired power plant in the middle of downtown Madison.

Our firm secured significant pollution reductions from a coal plant in Kentucky and is helping clients in Iowa, Michigan, Indiana and Kansas fight for cleaner air by reducing power plant pollution.

We have represented Sierra Club, Clean Wisconsin, the grassroots organization SOUL (Save Our Unique Lands), and the Madison Chapter of the Audubon Society in challenging electric transmission lines and coal-fired power plants. Our representation includes appearances before the Public Service Commission, the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board, circuit courts, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, and in the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Protecting Wisconsin's Water

Our attorneys represented a grassroots organization bringing citizen enforcement suits under the Clean Water Act against a large utility company for toxic discharges from its power plant into the Wisconsin River.
Garvey McNeil & McGillivray attorneys represented an organization fighting an industrial food processor for illegal phosphorous discharges into an important local fishery.
Garvey McNeil & McGillivray successfully challenged the Department of Natural Resources' decision to issue a high capacity well permit to Perrier after an inadequate environmental review.
On behalf of the Wisconsin Wetlands Association, the Sierra Club, 1,000 Friends of Wisconsin, Clean Wisconsin, and the River Alliance of Wisconsin, Garvey McNeil & McGillivray successfully challenged an unconstitutional law allowing a large corporation to fill protected wetlands.
In another high-profile case, our firm represented the Town of Nashville and later, numerous environmental groups and individuals, in opposing the Crandon mine at the headwaters of the Wolf River. Our legal intervention helped delay the environmentally unhealthy project until it was ultimately abandoned.
Garvey McNeil & McGillivray has represented a number of individuals concerned about groundwater contamination in their private wells in Fulton, Milladore and South Milwaukee. These cases have resulted in a variety of remedies, such as new water systems, money damages, and clean-up of the contaminated wells and sites.

Fighting for Environmentally Sound Land Use

Garvey McNeil & McGillivray went to court on behalf of citizens in Magnolia, Wisconsin, to overturn a decision that would have permitted a factory farm with over 1,250 cattle. The firm also helped defeat a beef feedlot in the Manitowoc area, an outsized chicken farm in Dunn County, and a 2,800 cow factory farm in the Town of Porter.

Our firm has been retained by citizens across the state to fight harmful ethanol plants that would spew air emissions into sensitive areas. Our efforts have prevailed in Menomonie, Cambria, Horicon, Arlington, and Elba.

Garvey McNeil & McGillivray attorneys are helping citizens across the state, from Franklin to Minocqua, stand up to the development of "big box stores" and other commercial development in their areas.

Garvey McNeil & McGillivray has assisted citizens and individuals in land use disputes including gravel pits, subdivisions, highways, other nuisance land uses and special tax assessments.

Our attorneys have assisted landowners on legal matters such easements, annexations, condemnation, and eminent domain issues.

Garvey McNeil & McGillivray represents municipalities on land use and other environmental matters.

If you have a complex land use, clean air, or clean water legal matter with which you need assistance, let the law firm of Garvey McNeil & McGillivray, S.C., help you. Our attorneys have over 100 years of combined experience making sure the environment and our clients' rights are protected. Contact our office by phone at 608.256.1003 to speak with one of our lawyers today.

Garvey McNeil & McGillivray, S.C.

634 West Main Street • Madison, WI 53703 • 608.256.1003

The law firm of Garvey McNeil& McGillivray, S.C., provides legal representation to clients throughout Wisconsin and Northern Illinois including Madison, Milwaukee, Green Bay, Oconomowoc, La Crosse, Eau Claire, Superior, Appleton, Dane County, Brown County, Green County, Rock County, Jefferson County, Dodge County, Columbia County, Sauk County, Iowa County, Waukesha County, Washington County, Winnebago County, Galina, Bellevue, Jo Daviess County, Cook County, and Lake County, as well as the states of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky and the U.S. District Court of D.C.