Balch & Bingham LLP

Environmental & Natural Resources

Partner

Claire Johnson counsels clients navigating environmental regulatory compliance issues, environmental permitting, and environmental litigation on both the state and federal level. She routinely works with power cooperatives and large power companies, and their trade groups, on nationwide on Clean Air Act (CAA) matters, including rulemaking comments and appellate rulemaking challenges, and New Source Review and Title V issues. She has experience representing clients on CAA matters in front of the D.C. Circuit, Fifth Circuit, and Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Claire also has experience with other major environmental regulations, including the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Clean Water Act (CWA), the National Environmental Policy Act, and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), and their state counterparts.

Alabama State Bar, Environmental Law Section Chair

Southeastern Environmental Law & Regulation Conference Planning Committee

Birmingham Environmental Professionals Association

Birmingham Bar Association, Young Lawyers and Women’s Sections

Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D., 2018, Development Editor, Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review, Development Editor; Journal of Transnational Law

Clemson University, B.S., Environmental and Natural Resources, Minor in Business Administration, 2015, cum laude, Calhoun Honors College, Thesis on the Land and Water Conservation Fund