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Tom is a senior partner in Pierce Atwood’s Environmental and Land Use Practice Group. Tom has extensive experience in all areas of environmental and land use law, including complex corporate transactions and adjudicatory proceedings. During his career, Tom has been lead counsel in several high profile environmental and land use matters. His accomplishments include: The successful licensing of a 24-acre greenhouse, heated by a biomass boiler, to grow hydroponic tomatoes, the largest facility of its kind east of the Mississippi River. The successful licensing of an additional seven million cubic yards of waste disposal capacity for the private operator of the only State-owned landfill in New England. Approval obtained after a contested State proceeding. The successful licensing of a state-of-the-art semiconductor fabrication facility-at $800 million, the largest single industrial investment in Maine’s history. The applicable state licenses were obtained in a record 21 days, the minimum time required by State law. The only private attorney over the past fifteen years to have successfully led the licensing of a new landfill in Maine, a feat he has accomplished twice. Both licenses came after unanimous decisions from Maine's Board of Environmental Protection, which had conducted contested public hearings. The successful licensing of a 1,000-ton-per-day solid waste transfer station, which will be the largest facility of its kind in northern New England. Maine’s Board of Environmental Protection unanimously approved the facility after a two-day adjudicatory hearing. The successful permitting of a new 175-megawatt natural gas turbine-generator for one of Maine’s largest manufacturing facilities. The successful federal, state, and local licensing of a major pulp and paper mill expansion, which included a new paper machine, two new boilers, and a new pulp mill. The licenses were obtained in less than three months after filing. Serving as environmental counsel in several complex corporate transactions, such as public offerings, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and site divisions. His work has involved such international companies as Bowater Incorporated, Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, Georgia-Pacific Corporation, National Semiconductor Corporation, and Sappi Fine Paper. Tom has been involved in numerous judicial appeals of federal, state, and municipal agency decisions. He also appears regularly before the Maine Legislature on issues of interest to clients. | 