Experience

• Representation of technology client in successful defense of multiple challenged air permits before the Washington Pollution Control Hearings Board.
• Representation of major oil and gas client in successful defense of challenged PSD air permit before the Washington Pollution Control Hearings Board.
• Counsels industrial clients and trade associations on state and federal air-related rulemakings, including the Washington Department of Ecology’s Clean Air Rule.
• Representation of manufacturing client in significant EPCRA enforcement action and successfully negotiated resolution with EPA Region 10.
• Assists MSW landfill clients in Title V permitting and compliance matters related to EPA’s new source performance standards.
• Assists with permitting and provide advice on compliance with the Clean Air Act new source review and prevention of significant deterioration programs, as well as local air quality regulations.
• Tracks and advises clients on regulatory updates to EPA’s New Source Performance Standards and National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants.
• Counsels industries and trade associations in rulemaking proceedings for air regulation, including greenhouse gas reasonably available control technology rules and the Washington regional haze SIP.
• Represents clients in enforcement proceedings, including responding to Clean Air Act § 114 information requests, negotiation of civil penalties and defense of non-compliance allegations.
• Assists data centers nationwide with Clean Air Act compliance and other applicable environmental regulatory requirements, including RCRA, EPCRA and CWA.
• Defense of appeal to industrial client’s CWA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit.
• Advised Native Alaska regional corporation on State of Alaska’s development of proposed new hydroelectric dam on its lands.

Honors & Activities

• Vice-Chair of Membership for American Bar Association Air Quality Committee, 2017–present
• Board Member of Air & Waste Management Association, Puget Sound Chapter, 2014–2018
• Volunteer with King County Bar Association Neighborhood Legal Clinics
• Volunteer with Northwest Immigrant Rights Project
• McCoy 5-day RCRA Hazardous Waste Seminar, 2014
• Member, Washington State Bar Association
• Member, King County Bar Association
• Member, Oregon State Bar Association

Insights & Presentations

• “Market-Based Strategies for Greenhouse Gas Reduction,” Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Perspectives from the West, Stoel Rives LLP/Environmental Law Institute, Portland, OR, June 10, 2019
• “Western States Proceed with Climate Legislation Regardless of Trump’s “ACE” Rule” (co-author), Renewable Energy World, September 4, 2018
• “Climate Change: Pushing Aside Rhetoric in Search of a Practical Path,” Alaska Oil and Gas
  Association Conference, Anchorage, AK, May 31, 2018
• “Clean Air Act Compliance: New Winds Blowing at EPA,” Stoel Rives webinar, May 16, 2018
• “Climate Change Litigation and Policy Development in Washington and Alaska,” Annual Arctic
  Encounter Symposium, Seattle, WA, April 19, 2018
• “How Many Consultants, Lawyers and Years Does it Take to Permit a Project in Washington?” Northwest Construction Consumer Council, May 18, 2017
• “Symposium on the Washington Clean Air Rule,” Air & Waste Management Association, December 14, 2016
• “RCRA 101,” Environmental Law Institute’s 11th Annual Western Boot Camp on Environmental Law, March 18, 2015
• “Recent Developments in Clean Air Act Enforcement Litigation,” King County Bar Association Roundtable, Seattle, Washington, January 22, 2014
• “Developments in Air Regulation Facing Natural Gas Producers and Users,” Tenth Annual Energy Conference, Stevenson, Washington, June 6, 2013

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