Gregory J. Battista leads Cahill's environmental practice group.
Greg has over 25 years of experience handling environmental law matters, including those related to environmental risk analysis, federal and state compliance, remediation, energy operations, and corporate transactions. Greg has been recognized as a leading environmental lawyer by Chambers USA and the International Who's Who of Environmental Lawyers.
Greg has extensive experience in environmental law, providing advice in a variety of areas including: EHS compliance and litigation matters, site investigation and clean-up, SEC disclosure, sustainability strategy and reporting, climate change regulation, government enforcement and administrative proceedings, OSHA matters, auditing, supply chain risk, real estate development projects, and due diligence with respect to financing, M&A and other corporate matters.
Since 1992, Greg has served as adjunct professor of Environmental Law and Management at Stevens Institute of
Technology, where he teaches courses on regulation under the Federal Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act,
Superfund/CERCLA, RCRA, and New Jersey ISRA and Spill Act. Greg is a prolific author and frequent speaker on environmental trends such as climate change, sustainability, international transboundary pollution and served on the Editorial Board of Environmental Liability Journal (Lawtext UK), from 2005 to 2010.
Earlier in his career, Greg was General Counsel of LRN Corporation, a Senior Environmental Attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, a Deputy Director for the New Jersey Hazardous Waste Facilities Siting Commission and an Assistant Director at the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
