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Mr. Wadsworth’s practice combines energy and environmental experience. He represents energy companies in connection with acquisitions, permitting, regulatory approvals, and development work, and represents developers and financers of large projects in connection with permitting, regulatory and environmental risk allocation issues.
Mr. Wadsworth has extensive experience with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and with carbon issues in general, and has lectured and written extensively on these and other topics. He has served on the Solid Waste Advisory Board aiding the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection in drafting regulations, and has been extensively involved in programs relating to Chapter 91 (tidelands) issues.
As part of Brown Rudnick’s Cleantech Team, Mr. Wadsworth is also part of collaborative, cross-disciplinary initiatives to assist clients in this evolving sector.
Representative Matters
• Actively involved in the development of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).
• Representation of a waste-to-energy company in connection with environmental, zoning and land use permitting, and contracting, and financing matters relating to a 1650 ton per day facility secured by $150 million in tax exempt bonds; negotiation of a buyout of the facility power contract; and assistance in finding alternative means of supplying power to former customers of a separate retired waste-to-energy power plant.
• Representation of a utility company in connection with environmental and permitting matters relating to the development of transmission and solar facilities.
• Representation of a major Boston teaching hospital in connection with development of a new research facility, the expansion of an existing clinical building, and the acquisition of a facility from another teaching hospital. Issues involved in the transaction include permitting matters, BRA matters, and unique issues involving provision of energy from a private energy company.
• Representation of large biotechnology REIT in the acquisition and development of a Cambridge campus, including Chapter 91, Conservation Commission, utility easement and remediation issues.
• Representation of the owner of a contaminated Brownfield site in Boston in connection with its acquisition and remediation, and subsequent permitting for development of a shopping center, including issues in connection with construction, issuance of loans and environmental insurance.
• Representation of auctioneer and sales advisor of the Seabrook Nuclear Power Station, and coordination of the regulatory approval process.
• Representation of a large university in the acquisition of a 1,400,000 square foot office/research and development complex for in excess of $275 million, obtaining waterway and tidelands licenses under Chapter 91, and advising on hazardous waste cleanup, permitting, Cambridge zoning and insurance issues.
• Representation of a large utility in connection with real estate development projects, development of its corporate headquarters, and disposition of various parcels after maximizing the value of those parcels by undertaking zoning, permitting, Chapter 91 licensing, and other predevelopment work.
• Representation of owners, lenders and buyers of contaminated properties.
Publications
• Author, "House and Senate Both Consider Climate
Change Legislation; How Would Cap and Trade Actually Work?" Bloomberg Law Reports: Sustainable Energy, January 2010
• Author, "A Call for Revolution," Carbon Market North America, January 2009
• Author, "Today's US Carbon Market," World-Generation, December 2008
• Co-author, "Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI): 2008 Update," Brown Rudnick Client Alert, March 6, 2008
• “Will RGGI Increase Energy Costs to Reduce Carbon Emissions?” Mass High Tech, February 9, 2007
• Co-author, "Asia Pacific Partnership" Brown Rudnick Client Alert, July 1, 2006
• Co-author, "States Move Ahead with Regional Initiative" North American Windpower, June 1, 2006
• "Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Launched" Power Magazine, June 1, 2006
• Co-author, “Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI),” Brown Rudnick Client Alert, April 2006
• “Seven Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiatives,” World-Generation, March/April 2006
• "Vientiane Pact Could Be a Boon for Clean Coal Technology" energycontango.com Weekly Report, September 30, 2005
• “Franchising in the United States,” International Franchise Law (Matthew Bender), 1993
Bar Admissions & Memberships
• Admitted, Massachusetts Bar
• Member, Massachusetts and Energy Bar Associations
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