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BY CD WHITE
The business of ‘green’:
Fix it before it’s broken
“I
have undergone a profound change in point of
“Fix it before it’s broken,” he says. “I now believe our
view.”
environmental future as well as our hope to compete
successfully with the Chinese and others must be cen-
The fact that Stanley N. Alpert is making that state- tered around energy-smart and toxin-smart prac-
een expo
ment, considering his years of gid19fces.”
experience as a former federal
gr
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environmental prosecutor,
Alpert is solidly behind a cor-
should alert any forward-think-
porate shigid14c to sustainability,
ing business to the fact that
and points to Walmart, head-
something important is about
quartered in Bentonville, as
to follow.
proof of the effecgid19fveness of
that shigid14c.
Mr. Alpert’s long history of en-
vironmental ligid19fgagid19fon, counsel-
“The company has been ques-
ing, and commercial arbitragid19fon
gid19foned on many fronts in ligid19f-
has carried him deeply into the
gagid19fon and in the court of
issues of business versus the
public opinion,” he notes,
environment. As has his work
“and it has made a strategic
prosecugid19fng, defending and su-
choice to be a global leader in
pervising complex environ-
Stanley N. Alpert sustainability, serving a public
mental civil and criminal cases
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purpose that is so powerful
Of Counsel to Constantine Cannon LLP
Stanley Alpert’s
under the Clean Air Act, Clean
Former Federal Environmental Prosecutor
that it may override early
Water Act, Ocean Dumping Act
complaints.”
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Former Assistant U.S. Attorney for Eastern District of New York
and other regulatory schemes.
Commercial and real estate litigation associate and federal judicial law clerk
212-350-2730 • salpert@constantinecannon.com
He adds that Walmart’s efforts
http://www.constantinecannon.com/attorneys/salpert.php
“My background and pracgid19fce
are a “revolugid19fon in American
have centered on enforcement
business not matched since
of environmental laws which require businesses to
the enactment of the major environmental laws be-
pay a price post-pollugid19fon,” says Alpert, who will be
ginning in the 1970s.”
one of the speakers at the Northwest Arkansas Green
Expo. Alpert is of Counsel with Constangid19fne Cannon , a
Green business is good business
nagid19fonally recognized law firm specializing in angid19ftrust
Alpert claims the marketplace is now judging compa-
ligid19fgagid19fon and counseling in New York.
nies based on their effecgid19fve reducgid19fon and manage-
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