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James Stewart has extensive experience in environmental issues and complex litigation, with an emphasis on environmental litigation and class-action toxic torts.
Mr. Stewart has experience with renewable energy issues, particularly solar energy projects. He has counseled both project developers and solar power purchasers concerning contracting and financing issues and "environmental attributes," such as SRECs. Mr. Stewart is also highly experienced in environmental compliance issues and the impact of environmental liabilities on mergers and acquisitions. He handles such complex issues as the sale of RCRA-permitted facilities, the sale of grossly contaminated property and the environmental aspects of transactions involving facilities in numerous states. Mr. Stewart is listed in the 2011 edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business and is listed Mr. Stewart is listed among The Best Lawyers in America in the environmental law section. He is also featured in the 2005-2009 issues of Super Lawyers in the Environmental section of the publication.
Mr. Stewart lectures and writes frequently on environmental law issues. He is Co-Editor of the New Jersey Environmental Law Handbook (Government Institutes).
Presentations
- Frequent lecturer on environmental and toxic tort litigation issues, including presentations for the ALI-ABA in Washington, DC and for the New Jersey State Bar Association, Local Governments Section and Environmental Law Section
Speaking Engagements
- Panelist, "Climate Change Regulation: What to Expect," Chemistry Council Spring Meeting, April 2009
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James Stewart comments on how including a photo of a phone booth-sized cage used to hold mentally ill inmates in California with the amicus brief he prepared with Kenneth Zimmerman, Catherine Weiss and Michael Long, helped influence the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Plata. The decision requires California prisons to eliminate unconstitutional conditions by reducing critical and dangerous overcrowding.,
New Jersey Law Journal, May 27, 2011
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James Stewart discusses the environmental benefits of the waste-to-energy process, which burns waste at high temperatures and uses the heat to generate steam and electricity.,
NJBiz, August 17, 2009
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In an article about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on contaminated Superfund sites, James Stewart comments on the implications of the New Jersey Spill Act.,
NJBiz, May 11, 2009
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New York University School of Law
(J.D., 1981),
cum laude, Editor, New York University Law Review
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Seton Hall University
(B.A., 1976),
summa cum laude
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New Jersey Supreme Court, Honorable Stewart G. Pollock
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New Jersey
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New York
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- Board of Advisors, EPA Administrative Law Reporter
- Adjunct Professor of Environmental Law, Pace University School of Law
- New Jersey State Bar Association
- New York State Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Environmental Litigation Committee, Litigation Section
- Natural Resources Section
- NJ Green Building Council Committee on Green Building and Sustainability Valuation
- ABA Committee on Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Ecosystems
- ABA Committee Carbon and Energy Trading and Finance
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