Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources

ECONorthwest has earned a reputation for excellence through an established history of applying economics to litigation involving environmental, natural-resource, and energy-related issues. ECONorthwest specializes in evaluating the benefits, costs, and market impacts of natural-resource management decisions and environmental regulations, and in valuing economic damages from natural-resource injuries.

ECONorthwest has provided economic analysis in matters related to critical habit designations and exemption requests for endangered species, pesticide use, petroleum pipelines, radioactive and other hazardous waste, timber and clear-cutting, agriculture, groundwater, the gasoline additives MTBE and ethanol, oil spills and refining, shipwrecks, recreation, and mining. Our experts have also provided analysis for Native American tribes in cases where tribal claims to land or natural resources have been challenged.

ECONorthwest economists also work on environmental, natural-resource, and energy issues unrelated to litigation for a wide variety of clients. Our expertise covers a range of topics, encompassing water quality and water supply issues, forest-related issues, fish and wildlife issues, including those involving threatened and endangered species, and topics involving climate change and sustainability. Visit our Environmental, Natural-Resources, and Sustainability Consulting pages for more information.

Some of the firms ECONorthwest has worked with include:

Berger & Montague, PC
California Department of Justice
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Earthjustice
Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School
Faegre & Benson LLP
Haglund, Kirtley, Kelley, Horngren & Jones, LLP
Holland & Hart LLP
Jamin, Ebell, Schmitt & Mason, PC
Jaqua & Wheatley, PC
Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP
Montana Department of Justice
Oregon Department of Justice
Sher Leff LLP
Stoel Rives LLP
Weitz & Luxenberg, PC

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