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    Michael J. Gross
    Michael J. Gross

    Michael J. Gross

    mgross@ghclaw.com(732) 741-3900Linkedin
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    Mike, chair of the Environmental Law Practice Area, handles all aspects of New Jersey and federal environmental law, including permitting and litigation, CAFRA, sewage disposal and water supply, wetlands, riparian (tidelands) law, solid waste, flood hazard areas, siting of fossil fuel and renewable energy and other industrial facilities, site remediation, Pinelands, Highlands, cultural resources, stormwater, wastewater planning, water and air pollution. He also appears before planning and zoning boards and has handled complex construction litigation matters.

    Mike is environmental counsel to the New Jersey Builders Association and general counsel to the Shore Builders Association of Central New Jersey. He serves as environmental permitting counsel to developers of novel solar energy projects, including securing necessary approvals for the largest floating solar array in the United States.

    Additionally, the Environmental Law Department authored the environmental law section of The New Jersey Land Use and Environmental Law Treatise and Mike co-authors the New Jersey Water Law Survey updates to the Waters and Water Rights Treatise.

    He has been involved in major litigation both before the New Jersey courts and the Office of Administrative Law and has argued before the New Jersey Supreme Court and Appellate Division. Mike has served as an expert witness in cases before the New Jersey Superior Court and the U.S. District Court.

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    Practice Focus
    • Environmental Law
    • Land Use Law
    Professional Activities
    • Member of the American Bar Association, Advisory Panel
    • Member of the New Jersey State Bar Association
    • Member of the National Association of Home Builders Legal Action Network for Development Strategies (LANDS)
    • Member of the Legal Action Committee of the National Association of Home Builders
    • Member of the New Jersey Builders Association
    • Member of the Shore Builders Association of Central New Jersey
    Other Professional and Personal Information
    Mike has taught a course, Municipal Land Use Law, as co-adjunct faculty for Rutgers University and lectured on environmental law in Monmouth University graduate courses. He has spoken on environmental issues at numerous seminars on behalf of Chambers of Commerce, the New Jersey Builders Association, the New Jersey Society of Real Estate Appraisers, ICLE and the Essex County Bar Association. He previously co-hosted "Environmental Straight Talk" on cable television.

    Prior to joining the firm in 1976, Mike was a Deputy Attorney General with the NJ Department of Law & Public Safety for four years. He represented the Department of Environmental Protection in diverse areas of environmental law, prosecuting numerous cases on behalf of the State.
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    • New Jersey
    Education
    • Rutgers University School of Law - Newark, J.D. - Editor, Law Review
    • Rutgers University , B.A.
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