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Baker Botts L.L.P. Offices
101 CALIFORNIA STREET, SUITE 3070
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94111
CALIFORNIA
United States
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Julie Cress
Work Department
Litigation / Environmental, Safety & Incident Response
Position
Partner
Career
Julie Cress is a seasoned environmental lawyer with a unique California regulatory experience having spent time working for the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and the California Air Resources Board as well as on the private side managing environmental, health, and safety programs. Julie has over 15 years of experience in California and federal environmental laws with a primary focus on air quality and climate change, assisting clients on regulatory, rulemaking advocacy, incident response, and compliance and enforcement matters. She has represented companies in various sectors including traditional energy and energy transition, auto and auto parts manufacturers, retailers, distributors, and transportation companies.
While primarily focused on California’s regulatory structure including air district permitting (new source review and Title V), compliance and enforcement advice, and hearing board disputes as well as rulemaking advocacy and compliance and enforcement counseling associated with CARB rules such as the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, Cap-and-Trade Regulation, and mobile source regulations impacting transportation fleets, Julie also supports clients complying with federal fuels (traditional and Renewable Fuel Standard) and aftermarket defeat device programs. Julie also counsels clients on various emissions-based credit regimes including compliance and voluntary carbon markets with a specific emphasis on Low Carbon Fuel Standard credit generation opportunities such as CCS, RNG, and hydrogen, registration for compliance and credit trading in the Cap-and-Trade Program, and advising clients on emission credit transaction documents.
Julie’s prior government experience, and her interpersonal nature with her clients and government regulators allows her to effectively and efficiently counsel clients in the day-to-day, and the not so day-to-day environmental regulatory programs with which they must comply.
When she isn’t serving her clients, Julie spends time with her husband and three children as well as serving on the Board of the Mental Health Association of Alameda County.
Memberships
State Bar of California
Education
J.D., Golden Gate University School of Law 2006
with distinction
Certificate of Specialization: Environmental Law, Public Interest Law
Dean’s List
Witkin Award for Academic Excellence, Legal Writing & Research
B.S., Environmental Health, Illinois State University 2001
Personal
Environmental Evolutions: https://www.bakerbotts.com/thought-leadership/publications/2023/march/environmental-evolutions-its-last-call-for-cas-update-to-the-advanced-clean-fleets-regulations
Environmental Evolutions: New Signals on California’s LCFS Amendments
https://www.bakerbotts.com/thought-leadership/publications/2022/august/environmental-evolutions-changes-are-coming-to-the-ca-lcfs
https://www.bakerbotts.com/thought-leadership/publications/2021/august/environmental-evolutions-california-101-fast-facts
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Finance > Project finance
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions