Over nearly a decade Matt Pawa and Wes Kelman represented a group of municipalities in western Massachusetts in complex administrative litigation over a $576M federal cleanup of the Housatonic River. 

Matt, Wes and MacKennan have represented many cities and states in lawsuits against Monsanto Co. to recover for PCB contamination in water bodies and in school buildings.   In more than

From 2004 to 2017, Matt, Ben and Wes devised and litigated the first tort lawsuits on the climate crisis.  They worked closely with a coalition of attorneys general, land trusts

When PLG filed the San Franscisco and Oakland climate cases, Exxon and its counsel Paul Weiss struck back with a SLAPP suit against the cities, PLG and Pawa in Texas

Matt, Ben, and Wes have defended protesters against accusations that the protesters have interfered with fossil fuel operations.  The team defended Greenpeace (the U.S. environmental group) in connection with its

We have represented the State of New Hampshire since 2003 in MTBE groundwater pollution litigation against numerous national oil companies, including ExxonMobil, Irving Oil, Shell Oil Co., Amerada Hess Corp.,

Connecticut v. American Electric Power Co., 131 S. Ct. 2527 (2011) We filed the first tort case against greenhouse gas polluters in 2004 in collaboration with the attorneys general of

Native Village of Kivalina v. ExxonMobil Corp., No. cv-08-1138 (N. D. Cal.) We filed this case on behalf of an Inupiat Eskimo tribe against major oil and electric power corporations

Green Mtn. Chrysler Plymouth Dodge Jeep v. Crombie, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 67617 (D. Vt. 2007), appeals withdrawn, Nos. 07-4360-CV, 07-4342-CV (2d Cir.); Central Valley Chrysler-Jeep, Inc. v. Witherspoon, No.