Energy and Sustainability Archives - Dawda PLC https://www.dawdalaw.com/practice_area/energy-and-sustainability/ Leading Business Law Firm in Metro Detroit Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:12:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Susan J. Sadler https://www.dawdalaw.com/attorney/susan-j-sadler-2/ Tue, 17 Aug 2021 08:28:36 +0000 https://dawdamann.com/?post_type=attorney&p=7629 Susan J. Sadler is a founding Member of Dawda PLC. She is the head of the Environmental, Energy, and Sustainability practice group. She concentrates her legal practice on a broad spectrum of environmental issues. Since the early 1980s, she has provided counsel on compliance with the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act, the [...]

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Susan J. Sadler is a founding Member of Dawda PLC. She is the head of the Environmental, Energy, and Sustainability practice group. She concentrates her legal practice on a broad spectrum of environmental issues.

Since the early 1980s, she has provided counsel on compliance with the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Wetland Regulations, Endangered Species Act, and state environmental statutes and permitting requirements.

An experienced counselor, Susan frequently defends corporations in administrative proceedings and environmental litigation brought by citizens groups, Attorneys General Offices, and the Federal Justice Department. Her legal expertise includes representing corporations in toxic tort litigation brought by individuals claiming damage and physical injury from exposure to chemicals, and representing individuals, corporations, municipalities, and business entities in all aspects of environmental regulations. She also has experience in negotiating settlements with insurance carriers regarding pollution claims.

Susan is LEED-AP accredited and is one of the few attorneys with this distinction.

Susan is an active member of the American Bar Association’s Litigation and Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental law sections, and past Vice Chair of the American Bar Association’s Solid and Hazardous Waste Committee. She is a Board Member of the Great Lakes Center for Legal Studies.

A frequent author, Susan has made significant contributions to the Detroit College of Law Review, the first and second edition of The RCRA Practice Manual (published by the American Bar Association), and Environmental Law for Contractors. She also is a lecturer for the American Bar Association and State Bar of Michigan, and has been a faculty member of the Law Institute Program of the Defense Research Institute.

Susan earned her J.D. from the University of Toledo in 1980 and a B.A. from Albion College in 1977.

Susan J. Sadler

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Education
  • University of Toledo College of Law, Toledo, Ohio, 1980 J.D
  • Albion College, Albion, 1977 B.A.
Associations
  • State Bar of Michigan Environmental & Negligence Law Sections Member
  • State Bar of Michigan, Environmental Law Section Past Chair 2022-2023
  • American Bar Association Natural Resources, Energy & Environmental Law Section Member
  • American Bar Association, 1990–1993 Solid Waste & Hazardous Waste Committee Past Vice-Chair
  • Legal Institute of the Great Lakes Advisory Board Member
Published Works
  • The RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act) and Update (Contributing Author), American Bar Association
  • “The Environmental Justice Initiative and Its Impact on Corporations,” LakeLinks for the Legal Institute of the Great Lakes, Winter 1998-1999
  • “Got Green?,” Michigan State Bar Journal, October 2009
  • Environmental, Energy and Resources Law – ABA – A Year in Review, contributing writer, multiple years
Honors and Awards
  • Recognized by The Best Lawyers in America© – Environmental Law: 2010-2026, Litigation – Environmental: 2011-2026, Litigation – Real Estate: 2013-2014, 2019-2026
  • Top Lawyer: Environmental Law – DBusiness, 2010-2020, 2026
  • Top Lawyer: Energy Law – DBusiness, 2010-2019
  • One of 30 attorneys selected to the “Women in the Law” Class of 2017 – Michigan Lawyers Weekly
  • Named “Lawyer of the Year” by The Best Lawyers in America© – Detroit area, Environmental Law: 2017, Litigation – Environmental: 2015, 2018
  • Selected to Michigan Super Lawyers list – 2006-2021, 2024, 2025
  • Listed in Leading Lawyer: Energy Law, Environmental Law – Since 2014
  • AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rated – LexisNexis/Martindale-Hubbell®
  • Selected to be featured in Crain’s Detroit Business as one of 20 best lawyers – 2009
Bar Admissions
  • Michigan, 1981

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]]> Tyler D. Tennent https://www.dawdalaw.com/attorney/tyler-d-tennent/ Mon, 16 Aug 2021 15:32:06 +0000 https://dawdamann.com/?post_type=attorney&p=7594 Tyler D. Tennent is a Member of and General Counsel to Dawda PLC. He concentrates his practice in the areas of land use, real estate development, environmental, corporate, and related litigation. Tyler is land use and environmental counsel to several international, national, and local real estate development companies. His practice involves land use entitlement [...]

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Tyler D. Tennent is a Member of and General Counsel to Dawda PLC. He concentrates his practice in the areas of land use, real estate development, environmental, corporate, and related litigation.

Tyler is land use and environmental counsel to several international, national, and local real estate development companies. His practice involves land use entitlement approvals and environmental development strategies for developers. He also regularly advises clients regarding zoning approvals, land use permitting options, natural resource approvals, liability protections, defending environmental enforcement actions matters, and complex land use entitlement issues such as multi use developments, planned developments, and solar projects. He frequently assists clients with the development and operation of brownfield properties, the attainment of local, state, and national use permits, the securing of tax and financial incentives, the minimization of environmental risks associated with managing hazardous wastes, sustainable practices (LEED trained) and, with the drafting of contracts and corporate policies to avoid liability exposure. He handles cases that involve the transactional effects of environmental liability and advises corporations on the implementation of environmental audit and compliance programs. Tyler has significant litigation expertise representing parties in commercial, land use, and environmental litigation, including local, state, and federal administrative appellate actions and regulatory proceedings.

Additionally, he is counsel to governmental authorities for economic development, brownfield, complex land development matters. Some of the public corporations he has represented include land banks, brownfield authorities, and other economic development entities.

Tyler earned his J.D. in 1984 from Michigan State University College of Law and his B.A. from Michigan State University in 1981.

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Tyler D. Tennent

Member
248.642.4248
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Education
  • Michigan State University College of Law, East Lansing, J.D. 1984
  • Michigan State University, East Lansing, B.A. 1981
Associations
  • American Bar Association
  • American Planning Association
  • Challenge Detroit (Member of Board)
  • Michigan Planning Association
  • Oakland County Bar Association
  • Oakland County Fellow Foundation
  • State Bar of Michigan
Published Works
  • “Clean Air Permits, Special State Report – Michigan. Clean Air Permits: Managers Guide to the 1990 Clean Air Act” Thomson Publishing
  • “Secured Creditors Face Expanded Liability Under CERCLA,” Michigan Environmental Law Journal Vol. 9:3
  • “Asset Purchases and Successor Liability Under CERCLA,” 6 Mich. L. W. 1329 “Opinions of Third Parties: An Environmental Perspective,” ABA National Institute on Third Party Legal Opinions
  • “New Developments Under the Clean Air Act,” 6 Mich. L.W. 1615
  • “Avoiding an Environmental Surprise: Steps Which the Consumer/Real Estate Purchaser Should Take to Avoid Environmental Liability,” Loyola Consumer Law Reporter, Vol. IV, No. 3
Presentations
  • “Special Zoning Issues: Wind Turbines;” National Business Institute, October 2008 “Opinions of Third Parties: An Environmental Perspective,” ABA National Institute on Third Party Legal Opinions
  • “New Developments Under the Clean Air Act,” 6 Mich. L.W. 1615
  • “Avoiding an Environmental Surprise: Steps Which the Consumer/Real Estate Purchaser Should Take to Avoid Environmental Liability,” Loyola Consumer Law Reporter, Vol. IV, No. 3
Bar Admission
  • Michigan, 1984
  • U.S. Federal Courts, 1984
Honors and Awards
  • Chambers USA: Michigan Real Estate Zoning/Land Use, Band 1 – 2020- 2022 and Band 2 – 2023
  • Chambers USA: Michigan Real Estate, Noted Practitioner
  • Recognized by The Best Lawyers in America© – Environmental Law: 2019 – 2026, Land Use and Zoning Law, 2026, Litigation- Land Use and Zoning,  2026
  • Recognized by The Best Lawyers in America© –Lawyer of the Year: 2022 Top Lawyer: Environmental Law – DBusiness,: 2019 – 2023, 2026
  • Top Lawyer: Land Use and Zoning – DBusiness: 2019 – 2023 Michigan Super Lawyers: 2014 -2025
  • Listed in Leading Lawyer: Environmental Law; Land Use, Zoning & Condemnation Law; Real Estate Law-Commercial
  • AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rated – LexisNexis/Martindale-Hubbell®

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]]> Brian J. Considine https://www.dawdalaw.com/attorney/brian-j-considine/ Mon, 16 Aug 2021 11:36:39 +0000 https://dawdamann.com/?post_type=attorney&p=7524 Brian J. Considine is a Senior Attorney with Dawda PLC. He concentrates his practice in the areas of environmental law, including corporate environmental law and liability counseling, contaminated site cleanup, brownfield financing, commercial real estate due diligence, environmental/toxics litigation, natural resources and wetlands law and trademark and copyright law. His practice also includes counseling [...]

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Brian J. Considine is a Senior Attorney with Dawda PLC. He concentrates his practice in the areas of environmental law, including corporate environmental law and liability counseling, contaminated site cleanup, brownfield financing, commercial real estate due diligence, environmental/toxics litigation, natural resources and wetlands law and trademark and copyright law. His practice also includes counseling clients on Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards.

Brian’s environmental practice includes assisting a variety of corporate clients with matters involving the acquisition, sale and/or cleanup and closure of environmentally impaired properties. In that capacity, he has negotiated with several state environmental protection agencies in the Midwest, as well as with landowners, developers, and tenants to reach creative resolutions on a wide variety of environmental issues. He also has assisted clients with environmental due diligence and brownfield funding pertaining to property acquisition, including coordinating activities and strategies with environmental consultants. A large part of Brian’s practice is his proactive counseling to clients on ways to avoid or minimize environmental liability.

Brian’s Trademark and Copyright practice includes drafting and filing federal and state trademark applications and federal Copyright applications, responding to USPTO Trademark Office actions, counseling clients on licensing as well as state and federal Trademark and Copyright protections. His litigation experience includes the representation of corporate clients in toxic tort litigation and in industrial contamination claims. He has appeared before federal and state judicial and administrative forums. He is also one of the few attorneys in Michigan to earn the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Accredited Professional designation.

Brian earned his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law in 1995. He earned an M.S. in Environmental Science from Indiana University in 1991 and a B.S. in Biology from Marquette University in 1988. He is a member of the State Bar of Michigan, as well as the Washington, D.C. Bar, and is admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan. Brian also is a member of the Michigan Association of Environmental Professionals and the American Bar Association. He serves as a Member of the Board of Directors for the French American Chamber of Commerce—Michigan Chapter.

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Brian J. Considine

Senior Attorney
248.642.2531
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Education
  • University of Detroit Mercy School of Law Detroit, 1995 J.D. Honors: Cum Laude
  • Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1991 M.S., Environmental Science
  • Marquette University Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1988 B.S.
Honors and Awards
  • Top Lawyer: Intellectual Property & Patent Law – DBusiness, 2019, 2020.
  • Top Lawyer: Environmental Law – DBusiness, 2018-2023, 2026
  • Top Lawyer: Energy Law – DBusiness, 2018-2019.
  • Selected to Michigan Super Lawyers list – 2017- 2024, 2025
  • Recognized by The Best Lawyers in America© – Energy Law, 2021 -2026, Environmental Law 2026. Recognized as “Lawyer of the Year” 2023.
  • Energy, Sustainability and Environmental Law Committee, Awarded Committee of the Year by Oakland County Bar Association – 2015.
Associations
  • American Bar Association
  • District of Columbia Bar
  • Michigan Association of Environmental Professionals
  • State Bar of Michigan
  • Member, Board of Directors, French American Chamber of Commerce- Michigan Chapter
  • Chair of the Energy, Sustainability and Environmental Law Committee, Oakland County Bar Association, 2015 and 2024
Published Works
  • “So, Your Client Wants to Buy Industrial Property?” Laches, Oakland County Bar Association Number 586 March 2016
  • “Green Alternatives to Post Construction Storm Water Management” Michigan Environmental Law Journal Vol. 24, No. 2, Summer, 2006
  • “Michigan’s 404 Program: How Will Rapanos Affect Us?” Michigan Bar Journal Online Vol. 85, No. 11, November 2006.
  • “Green Building and Stormwater Management Can Grow in Residential Settings” Land Development Vol. 19, No. 4 Fall 2006.
Bar Admission
  • Michigan, 1995
  • District of Columbia, 1997

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