Edward B. Witte

Ned Witte is a shareholder in the Environmental and Energy Strategies Practice Group of Godfrey & Kahn, SC, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin based general practice law firm. Ned represents clients in the service and manufacturing industries as well as government bodies in a wide range of environmental matters in Wisconsin and across the U.S.

Ned has extensive experience in the regulation and permitting of activities in or near navigable waters and wetlands, as well as stormwater management and permitted wastewater discharges. Ned has deep experience in development and redevelopment of environmentally sensitive and contaminated properties, including Brownfields, coordinating Superfund site response activities, including as chair of steering committees, siting and permitting of manufacturing facilities and renewable and traditional energy projects. Ned also has structured and served as lead counsel in environmental due diligence and liability allocation in real estate, financing and corporate transactions, defense of government- and private party-lead enforcement actions and, conversely, enforcement of environmental contractual rights against third parties. Ned also has broad, nationally recognized experience in counseling clients concerning the emerging contaminants Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS (including PFOA and PFOS).