Below are just some of the results we’ve achieved for clients along with a few testimonials.
Representative Results
- Recovery of more than $30 million in unprecedented damages for landowners in gas pipeline eminent domain cases, post-construction restoration;
- Secured financial settlement and replanting of hundreds of trees for owners of canceled gas pipeline, following three years of litigation;
- Successfully opposed pipeline construction across protected wetland and tribal artifacts following extensive regulatory proceedings and rehearings.
- Represented client in amicus brief to United States Supreme Court involving statutory authority to site pipeline across historic Appalachian Trail;
- Won precedential ruling on limitations on use of eminent domain for gas pipeline bound for export;
- Overturned two civil penalties issued by FERC before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. CIrcuit;
- Licensed the first ocean wave energy project in the United States
- Obtained numerous CPCN authorizations for solar developments throughout Maryland;
- Secured favorable benefits for offshore wind and other renewables following weeks of merger proceedings before federal and state utilities commission;
- Negotiated and drafted favorable terms with substantial financial value for solar farm lease agreements and other energy easements
- Served as local FERC counsel on behalf of ratepayers, environmental organizations and renewables companies in Section 206 complaints
- Successful enforcement of LEO (legally enforceable obligation) under PURPA, following intervention at federal and state level, for projects in North Carolina and Kentucky.
- Refund of over $200,000 in annual charge payments to municipality within three months after three years of impasse by prior law firm.
- Renegotiated portions of interconnection agreement for solar company to close transaction.
Representative Testimonials
Carolyn Elefant, Esq. was a courageous, principled and outstanding counsel in defense of us and our environment before a federal judge in federal court. She carefully prepared each of us with background and information so that we understood and could testify with confidence. She helped us as defendants in an Eminent Domaine case for the taking of our land to stand tall before the judge against "a natural gas giant" to plead our rights and to obtain a fair hearing. At this moment we do not know how our case will resolve but I feel we could not have had a better person and better lawyer represent us at the bar.
I have worked with attorneys of all types and find Ms. Elefant to be a tireless and brilliant intellect willing to go the extra mile to provide the best counsel to her clients. She combines experience, intelligence and desire in her advocacy on behalf of her clients, never settling for anything other than excellence.
Carolyn Elefant has been a tireless advocate on behalf of our citizens group in certificate proceedings at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in a compression station siting case. Not only is she extremely knowledgeable about the Natural Gas Act and the National Environmental Policy Act, she is a brilliant strategist, and a superb writer and speaker. Most importantly, she exhibits a passion for her work that I have rarely seen in my many dealings with attorneys.
Carolyn took our case against [gas company] in eminent domain with sensitivity, passion and success. She fended off eminent domain in a federal court. As the judge closed the proceedings, he acknowledged Ms Elefant in her defense of "The Brandywine 5"