Gordon is part of the leading environmental practice in the state. Gordon’s work is focused on wind energy development, land use, green building, and administrative litigation. In particular, Gordon has represented wind power clients in all phases of project development, from federal, state and municipal permitting to appellate work before local boards of appeals, the Maine Board of Environmental Protection, state Superior Court, and the Maine Supreme Court.
Gordon has also represented clients on a range of permitting and litigation matters related to both conservation and development concerns. In his administrative appellate work, Gordon has successfully brought lawsuits to block environmentally damaging industrial and commercial development. Gordon has advised a major conservation consortium on common law and statutory riparian rights issues related to the removal of three dams in the Penobscot River to restore the state’s native anadromous fish populations. Gordon has also worked on establishing CERCLA liability against an international mining company for the cleanup costs at one of two Superfund sites in Maine.
As a pro bono matter, Gordon has assisted a national conservation organization in establishing the first-ever “permit bank” in Maine that will help to restore the depleted groundfish fishery in the Gulf of Maine.