Balch & Bingham LLP

Environmental & Natural Resources

Partner

Steven Burns advises private utilities, electric cooperatives, public power, and other businesses on coal ash, waste and contamination, waterways, environmental justice, air and water quality, wetlands, protected species, and natural resources. Steven has counseled clients under all the major statutes including the Clean Water Act (CWA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Superfund program (CERCLA), and the Clean Air Act (CAA). Steven serves as Counsel and Secretary to the National Waterways Conference, a trade association focused on federal waterway projects, as well as Chair of the association’s Legislative Policy Committee. He also is a three-time past Chair of the Alabama Chapter of the Air & Waste Management Association.

National Waterways Conference (NWC), Counsel and Secretary

NWC Legislative Policy Committee, Chair

Air and Waste Management Association (A&WMA), Alabama Chapter Board of Directors, Three-Time Past Chair

Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1995

Rhodes College, B.A., 1990, cum laude