Areas of Expertise:

Clean Energy, Climate Change, Coal, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Geothermal, GHGs, Natural Gas

Additional Areas of Expertise:

Land use, zoning,

Edward Woll Jr. has been a partner in the firm's Litigation Department of our Boston office since 1978. He is also a member of the International and Environment, Energy & Natural Resources groups. His principal practice areas have included real estate, environmental, zoning, and land use litigation and advice in federal and state trial and appellate courts, and before local, state and federal governmental agencies. Litigation experience has also included labor and employment matters and general commercial litigation, with both domestic and international clients. He has appeared before federal and state trial and appellate courts and many administrative and adjudicatory tribunals at the state level and before local city and town administrative boards and commissions. Mr. Woll's clients have included developers of recreational and marine facilities, private land owners of shorefront and inland properties, and developers of land for residential purposes.
Representative Client Work
• Disputes over tidelands jurisdiction, application of the public trust doctrine and Chapter 91 license proceedings, local and state administrative processes, including Historic District Commission, Conservation Commission, Zoning Board and Planning Board approvals and appeals, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and DALA, Environmental Protection Agency proceedings and appeals
• Resolved zoning, zoning enforcement, title, easements and easements by prescription, adverse possession and other land and land use disputes throughout Eastern and Central Massachusetts, including Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, ground water contamination, affordable housing petitions, wetlands and water resource issues
Bar & Court Admissions: District of Columbia, 1970; Massachusetts, 1971; U.S. District Courts: District of Massachusetts, District of Columbia
Publications: Adopt Solar – and Divorce Coal, Massachusetts Sierra Club (2012);Tear Up Your Energy Bills, Mass Sierra Club News (December 20, 2012);Case Comment on Britton v. Zoning Board of Appeals, 59 Mass. App. Ct. 68 (2003); "A Fresh Look at De Novo Review in Chapter 40A, Section 17 Actions and the Role of Aesthetics in Zoning Decisions," 88 Mass. Law Rev. 213 (Spring 2004); "The Elasticity of the Borders of DEP Wetlands Jurisdiction," Mass. Bar Ass’n Sect. Rev., Vol. 4, No. 1, p. 57 (Winter 2002); "Litigating Issues Involving Restrictions on Real Estate" (Oct. 2002), Mass. Bar Ass’n PRB03, Vol. 2, pp. 1-55 and (Feb. 2003), PRC03; "Safeguarding the Independence of DEP Administration Law Judges," MCLE Pub. 2001-83040-25, pp. 131-311
Client Advisories: Construction Site Operators Must Consider New EPA Revisions to the Stormwater General Permit; Massachusetts DEP Proposes Action Plan for Regulatory Reform; Massachusetts High Court Affirms the Public’s Rights in Coastal Waters and Streamlines Approval of Their Use for Energy Facilities; Massachusetts Issues Proposed Eligibility Criteria for Biomass Facilities to Receive Economic Incentives Under Commonwealth’s Renewable Energy Program; Massachusetts' High Court Allows Controversial Cape Wind Project to Proceed Speaking Engagements: "HEEC & HEGLSC Environmental Law Green Exchange," Harvard Extension Environmental Club (February 22, 2013); "Risk Discipline for the U.S. Off-Shore Wind Industry," Marsh Renewable Energy Practice (October 11, 2011); Lorman Seminars, Sept. and Oct. 2004: Law of Easements: Legal Issues and Practical Considerations and Land Use Restrictions; April 2004: Advanced Zoning and Land Use in Massachusetts; Presenter, The Conveyancer’s and Litigator’s Guide to Easements and Land Use Restrictions, Mass. Bar Ass’n, CLE (October 2002Professional & Civic Activities: American, Massachusetts, Boston, and International Bar Associations, Board of Editors, Massachusetts Law Review, since 1991; Executive Committee Member and Energy Committee Chair, Sierra Club Massachusetts Chapter; The Abstract Club, 2010; Chairman, Smaller Business Association of New England (SBANE), November 1997-1999; Secretary, 1996; Director, 1993-2000
Education: J.D., Georgetown Univ., 1970; M. Nucl. Eng., Cornell Univ., 1966; B. of Eng. Physics, Cornell Univ., 1965
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