Mr. Boyd is a partner in the Chicago office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. Mr. Boyd represents clients in environmental regulatory compliance, litigation, and transaction matters. He has negotiated favorable air, water, wetland, solid and hazardous waste, and underground injection control (UIC) permits. He has obtained variances to allow clients to install controls in stages, and site-specific regulatory changes. He also has prepared comments and testimony on numerous state and federal proposed regulations.

Mr. Boyd has been involved in a variety of enforcement and environmental litigation matters. He has defended clients against local, state, federal and citizen suits involving alleged violations of permitting, air, water, toxic chemical, pesticides, UIC, hazardous material transport, and waste requirements. He has substantial experience with Clean Air Act litigation, including New Source Review (both non-attainment NSR) and Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) matters, as well as enforcement and cases involving indoor air quality, alleged off-site exposure, vapor intrusion and nuisance (particularly odor). He also represents clients in private and governmental litigation matters involving contaminated sites.

Mr. Boyd assists with real estate and corporate transactions in which environmental compliance and contamination issues play a role. When an issue is discovered as a result of environmental due diligence, he helps clients to identify ways to address the issue so that the transaction can proceed. In particular, he has assisted clients to resolve contamination concerns through insurance products, voluntary clean-up programs, contract indemnities language, and EPA Prospective Purchaser Agreements. He also has extensive experience with state and federal audit policies, including the U.S. EPA’s “Self Disclosure Audit Policy” and the “Interim Approach to Applying the Audit Policy to New Owners.”

Mr. Boyd is a leader of the Catastrophe Response Team, which brings together the resources and experience of the Environmental, Safety & Toxic Torts attorneys to assist clients in times of emergencies. He has assisted clients regarding OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM), EPA Risk Management Planning (RMP), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chemical Security regulations (and is an “authorized user” of Chemical - Terrorism Vulnerability Information (CVI)). The impetus for the Catastrophe Response Team was his experience assisting clients to deal with the multiple agencies involved in explosions and off-site releases at chemical and other manufacturing facilities. He also led a the Seyfarth Lean team to develop a process map for responding to hazardous substance information requests using Six Sigma principles.

Mr. Boyd is also a leader of the Renewable Energy and Climate Change Affinity Team, which provides clients with a multidisciplinary, cross office approach to renewable energy and climate change projects. He has worked with clients developing ethanol, bio-fuel, renewable energy and waste-to-energy facilities. He has also advised clients working to quantify, reduce, and offset their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, to obtain Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), to disclose properly their climate change risks and opportunities, and to obtain permits and to negotiate agreements necessary for new landfill gas, wind, hyrdo, and solar energy projects. He has also helped clients with carbon sequestration issues.

Finally, Mr. Boyd is a leader of the Green Marketing Compliance Team. As such, he also assists clients to evaluate green marketing materials and greenwashing claims under the FTC’s Green Guides and relevant State requirements. www.seyfarth.com/GreenMarketingCompliance/ . Mr. Boyd also advises the firm and its clients on Green Office and sustainability strategies.

Mr. Boyd is a partner in the Chicago office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. Mr. Boyd represents clients in environmental regulatory compliance, litigation, and transaction matters. He has negotiated favorable air, water, wetland, solid and hazardous waste, and underground injection control (UIC) permits. He has obtained variances to allow clients to install controls in stages, and site-specific regulatory changes. He also has prepared comments and testimony on numerous state and federal proposed regulations.

Mr. Boyd has been involved in a variety of enforcement and environmental litigation matters. He has defended clients against local, state, federal and citizen suits involving alleged violations of permitting, air, water, toxic chemical, pesticides, UIC, hazardous material transport, and waste requirements. He has substantial experience with Clean Air Act litigation, including New Source Review (both non-attainment NSR) and Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) matters, as well as enforcement and cases involving indoor air quality, alleged off-site exposure, vapor intrusion and nuisance (particularly odor). He also represents clients in private and governmental litigation matters involving contaminated sites.

Mr. Boyd assists with real estate and corporate transactions in which environmental compliance and contamination issues play a role. When an issue is discovered as a result of environmental due diligence, he helps clients to identify ways to address the issue so that the transaction can proceed. In particular, he has assisted clients to resolve contamination concerns through insurance products, voluntary clean-up programs, contract indemnities language, and EPA Prospective Purchaser Agreements. He also has extensive experience with state and federal audit policies, including the U.S. EPA’s “Self Disclosure Audit Policy” and the “Interim Approach to Applying the Audit Policy to New Owners.”

Mr. Boyd is a leader of the Catastrophe Response Team, which brings together the resources and experience of the Environmental, Safety & Toxic Torts attorneys to assist clients in times of emergencies. He has assisted clients regarding OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM), EPA Risk Management Planning (RMP), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chemical Security regulations (and is an “authorized user” of Chemical - Terrorism Vulnerability Information (CVI)). The impetus for the Catastrophe Response Team was his experience assisting clients to deal with the multiple agencies involved in explosions and off-site releases at chemical and other manufacturing facilities. He also led a the Seyfarth Lean team to develop a process map for responding to hazardous substance information requests using Six Sigma principles.

Mr. Boyd is also a leader of the Renewable Energy and Climate Change Affinity Team, which provides clients with a multidisciplinary, cross office approach to renewable energy and climate change projects. He has worked with clients developing ethanol, bio-fuel, renewable energy and waste-to-energy facilities. He has also advised clients working to quantify, reduce, and offset their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, to obtain Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), to disclose properly their climate change risks and opportunities, and to obtain permits and to negotiate agreements necessary for new landfill gas, wind, hyrdo, and solar energy projects. He has also helped clients with carbon sequestration issues.

Finally, Mr. Boyd is a leader of the Green Marketing Compliance Team. As such, he also assists clients to evaluate green marketing materials and greenwashing claims under the FTC’s Green Guides and relevant State requirements. www.seyfarth.com/GreenMarketingCompliance/ . Mr. Boyd also advises the firm and its clients on Green Office and sustainability strategies.