Mark Kaster is a partner in Dorsey & Whitney's Regulatory Affairs Group. Mr. Kaster's practice emphasizes environmental, health and safety matters in complex cases, including environmental liabilities, workplace safety, toxic torts, and consumer product claims. Mr. Kaster has national expertise in handling environmental risk management, occupational health and safety compliance, accidents/fatality matters, air and hazardous waste compliance, hazardous materials law, California Proposition 65 cases, state product safety laws, ISO compliance, TSCA regulations, green marketing, EU REACH programs, due diligence reviews and safety/environmental auditing. He was part of the defense team in one of the first national Superfund cases (U.S. v. Reilly Tar and Chemical Co.) and has handled PCB and TCE exposure cases nationwide. He has been involved in permitting of major incineration facilities and wind energy facilities as well as large emission generators and has represented ethanol facilities in process safety management. He was environmental counsel in Minnesota for Circle K and Fina gasoline stations and has handled numerous above-ground and underground tank matters, including acting as lead counsel for the MSP Airline Fuel Consortium in negotiating a stipulation agreement with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. He has handled numerous workplace fatality matters and has tried cases before OSHA tribunals. His practice includes representation before federal and state agencies, including the Federal and state environmental agencies, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Mr. Kaster has also appeared before numerous arbitration panels, government boards and state tribunals. Mr. Kaster's clients include Fortune 500 companies for whom he regularly advises on risk management and environmental, health and safety matters. He is a member of the firm’s mergers and acquisitions group and counsels clients in their business transactions. Mr. Kaster recently started the Dorsey blog site www.ConsumerProductsLaw.com which provides current information on product safety and products liability.
