David P. Ruetz has over 30 years of experience in the environmental field, including work as an environmental attorney, the president of an environmental consulting-engineering firm, the administrative director of a governor-appointed natural resource advisory council, and an environmental scientist and aquatic biologist.
As an attorney, Dave has represented corporate, commercial, and industrial clients regarding environmental due diligence and risk assessment in mergers and acquisitions and real estate transactions. He has represented clients in environmental regulatory compliance matters involving the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA – “Superfund”), the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Clean Air Act (CAA), hazardous waste compliance under the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA), medical waste, wetlands, and water law. He has also represented industrial clients in matters involving the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) and has been involved in litigation matters, including oral arguments, in both state and federal court.
Dave also served as President of an environmental consulting engineering firm. In this role, he was responsible for the administrative, financial, and technical affairs of a 40+ employee environmental consulting engineering firm with offices in southeastern and north-central Wisconsin that specialized in environmental assessment and remediation of contaminated sites.
During his employment with the state Department of Natural Resources, he was an administrative director of a governor-appointed advisory council. Dave produced the annual report for the advisory council and managed its administrative affairs. Additionally, he implemented a resource inventory program for the advisory council to prioritize critical wildlife habitat as part of its conservation easement program.
As an environmental scientist, Dave has performed numerous Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs), environmental regulatory compliance audits, remedial assessments of petroleum and chlorinated solvent contaminated sites, wetland assessments, and water permitting projects, which included wetland delineation and habitat assessment surveys for commercial and industrial properties. He also served as a member of an asbestos defense litigation support team, which specialized in the preparation of expert reports for asbestos toxicology cases.
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