Thorough environmental law guidance for corporate clients

Lauren Harpke is an environmental lawyer who helps her clients with corporate environmental, health and worker safety issues. These include risk assessment, regulatory compliance, and site remediation and brownfields development. Other areas in which Lauren advises companies include:

• Environmental, health and worker safety concerns arising in mergers, acquisitions and other complex business and real estate transactions.
• Regulatory compliance and enforcement matters, including coordinating information requests, enforcement actions and settlement negotiations with state and federal environmental agencies regarding compliance questions or enforcement under RCRA, EPCRA, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, OSHA and state counterparts.

Bar Admissions

• Wisconsin

Education

• University of Wisconsin - Madison (B.A., with honors, 2003)
  • International Relations
  • Certificate: Environmental Studies

• University of Wisconsin Law School (J.D., cum laude, 2007)
  • Dean's List
  • Public Interest Law Foundation

• "Change is in the (Indoor) Air: Developments that will Redefine Vapor Intrusion Risk Assessment,"
• "Commercial Real Estate Transactions in Wisconsin (Second Edition)"
• "Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act: EPCRA"
• "Environmental Concerns in Business Transactions"
• "Environmental Health & Safety Regulations"
• "Environmental Health & Safety Regulations: What You Need to Know"
• "Environmental Health & Safety Regulations: What You Need to Know"
• "Environmental Health & Safety Regulations: What You Need to Know"
• "Environmental Health & Safety Regulations: What You Need to Know"
• "Environmental Health & Safety Regulations: What You Need to Know"
• "Environmental Health & Safety Regulations: What You Need to Know"
• "Environmental Health & Safety Regulations: What You Need to Know"
• "Great Lakes Compact and High Capacity Wells Survey"
• "Implementing Institutional Controls at Brownfields and Other Contaminated Sites (Second Edition)"
• "Out of Sight, Out of Mind: What Don’t You Know and When Should You Find Out?"
• "TRI Reporting for PFAS: What Should I Be Doing to Get Ready?"
• "Vapor Intrusion: Pathways to Liability"
• Courts Clash on Viability of Greenhouse Gas Public Nuisance Suits
• Cynthia Faur, Michael Mostow and Lauren Harpke Write Law360 Article About A Potential Proposal for Hazardous Substances
• Earth Awareness and Perspective
• Effluent Limitation Guidelines for Construction Sites Effective February 1, 2010
• EPA Approves ASTM E1527-13 Phase I ESA Standard for All Appropriate Inquiry
• EPA Approves ASTM E1527-21 Phase I ESA Standard for All Appropriate Inquiry
• EPA Extends Comment Deadline Regarding Petition to Change RCRA Criteria
• EPA Finalizes Long-Awaited Pharmaceutical Hazardous Waste Rule
• EPA Issues its Long-Awaited Proposal to Designate Certain PFAS as CERCLA Hazardous Substances
• EPA Proposes to Accept Only ASTM Standard E1527-13 for AAI
• EPA Releases PFAS Action Plan for Emerging Contaminants
• EPA Revises Regulations Affecting Recycling of Hazardous Secondary Materials
• EPA Seeking Public Comment on Significant Revisions to the RMP Program
• EPA, Wisconsin DNR Continue Efforts Toward Regulating PFAS
• EPA’s Designation of Certain PFAS as Hazardous Substances Under CERCLA Will Have Wide-Ranging Impacts
• Great Lakes Compact General Permits Proposed
• Great Lakes Compact Rule Packages Available for Public Comment until July 7, 2010
• Long-Awaited Reverse Distribution Rule Signals Big Changes for Healthcare Facilities, Reverse Distributors
• New Phase I Standard ASTM E1527-21 Authorized for All Appropriate Inquiries Starting February 13, 2023
• OSHA Form 300A Postings and Revised Injury Reporting Requirements
• OSHA Issues New Guidance for Reopening Nonessential Businesses
• OSHA Update: Work-Related COVID-19 Cases are Recordable, and Increased In-Person Inspections are on the Horizon
• Potential Impacts from New ASTM Standard for Phase I Environmental Site Assessments
• Recent OSHA PSM Decision Places the EPA’s RMP Rule on Shaky Ground
• Redefining Waters of the United States…Again Still Going with the Flow
• Role of Contamination in Valuation of Property in Eminent Domain Proceedings
• Speak Now or Hold Your Peace: Comment Period Begins for EPA’s Proposed Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals Rule
• The End of an Era - EPA Adopts Final Rule Accepting Only ASTM E1527-13 for AAI
• This issue contains the following articles: U.S. EPA Issues Proposed Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding; EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule: What It Portends For Greenhouse Gas Emissions Regulation; U.S. Supreme Court To Address Superfund Cleanup Liability
• Update on Great Lakes Compact
• USEPA Announces Policy of Enforcement Discretion Related to COVID-19 Crisis
• USEPA Issues Interim COVID-19 Guidance for Environmental Cleanup Site Field Work Decisions
• Wis. PFAS Proposals Present Challenges For Businesses
• Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Outlines its COVID-19 Environmental Compliance Process
• ​EPA Extends Comment Period for Proposed Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals Rule to December 24, 2015
• ​TSCA Reform – What to Expect in 2016

Seminar

• TRI Reporting for PFAS: What Should I Be Doing to Get Ready?