Biography
The question is almost never whether a site is contaminated. It is who put what there, and when — and that is a question chemistry can answer.
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Dr. Love leads Roux’s Litigation Practice Group and provides forensic litigation support and expert witness services to clients throughout the United States on both environmental litigation and environmental insurance coverage related matters.
Dr. Love’s experience includes strategic and technical analysis and guidance regarding numerous complex groundwater, soil, sediment, soil vapor, and air contaminated sites. He has also provided expert technical guidance for state legislative actions and federal advisory panels on a range of traditional and non-traditional environmental hazards.
Dr. Love’s expertise has been developed through a unique variety of University, Federal and post-academia work, including developing leading-edge methods for addressing forensic questions related to weapons of mass destruction for the Federal Government.
Areas of Focus
- Forensic evaluation of contaminant source, age, and release history across soil, groundwater, sediment, and soil vapor.
- Chemical and isotopic fingerprinting to distinguish commingled plumes and separate contributions from multiple parties.
- Divisibility and cost apportionment analysis to support allocation and cost recovery among responsible parties.
- Expert witness testimony and litigation support for environmental and insurance coverage disputes.
- Technical peer review and strategic guidance for counsel throughout investigation, remediation, and trial.
Representative Projects
- Passaic River (Diamond Alkali) Superfund Site, New Jersey (Superfund).
- Battery Recycling Facility, California (Environmental Litigation).
Forensic Approach
Dr. Love pairs field data with lines of evidence drawn from chemistry, hydrogeology, and site history to reconstruct how and when contamination occurred. That reconstruction gives clients and counsel a defensible technical foundation before questions of liability and cost are ever raised.
Every engagement is built to withstand scrutiny. Methods are documented, assumptions are stated plainly, and conclusions are tied directly to the underlying data, so the analysis holds up through deposition, cross examination, and trial.
Project Overviews
Expert Retentions
- Sunflower Redevelopment, LLC v. Illinois Union Insurance Company. United States District Court, Western District of Missouri, Western Division. Case No. 4:15-cv-00577-DGK. Deposition November 10, 2017. Rebuttal Report. Supplemental Report.
- Power Authority of the State of New York v. The Tug M/V Ellen S. Bouchard, et al.
- Gary Puhr v. PQ Corporation
- Hanford Challenge, et al. v. Ernest Moniz, et al.
- State of Colorado, et al. v. Valero Energy Corporation, et al.
Appearances
- Crown Central, LLC v. Petroleum Marketing Investment Group, LLC, et al.
- Sunflower Redevelopment, LLC v. Illinois Union Insurance Company
- Lennar Mare Island, LLC v. Steadfast Insurance Company
- Union Oil Consolidated Coverage Cases
