About Mark Chertok

Mark Chertok has been active in environmental and land use counseling, permitting, enforcement, and litigation for more than forty years.

His experience spans a broad spectrum of substantive areas, particularly for major transportation and other infrastructure projects and major public and private developments, including environmental assessments and environmental impact statement (EIS) counseling and litigation under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the New York State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA); wetlands and water quality permitting under the Clean Water Act and State counterparts; air quality and climate change issues under the Clean Air Act; hazardous substances remediation and litigation under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund); remediation under the New York State Brownfield Cleanup Program; oil spill remediation under the New York Navigation Law; compliance review of Phase I and Phase II environmental assessments; land use and zoning; coastal zone management and historic preservation.

A testament to his wetlands experience, Mark has been qualified as an expert in freshwater wetland permitting.