Troutman Pepper Locke LLP combines regulatory and transactional expertise with a robust environmental litigation and toxic tort team, covering a breadth of environmental cases. The firm is also active on emerging contaminants issues, covering offensive and defensive litigation, investigative orders, and product phase-outs. The team is led from Richmond by natural resource specialist Andrea Wortzel. Atlanta's Mack McGuffey chiefly concentrates on the Clean Air Act, and Washington DC-based James Beers, with former experience as an environmental prosecutor at the DoJ, represents local municipalities and state agencies in environmental disputes. Atlanta's Byron Kirkpatrick focuses on the Clean Water Act and National Environmental Policy Act.
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Key clients
- DeKalb County, GA
- Eugene Water and Electric Board
- Grand River Dam Authority
- Land Trust
- Large Coalition of Trade Organizations
- MasTec, Inc.
- National Hydropower Association
- National Mining Association
- PacifiCorp
- Savannah Economic Development Authority
- U.S. Wind, Inc.
- Veolia North America
Practice head
Andrea W. Wortzel
Other key lawyers
Mack McGuffey; James Beers; Byron Kirkpatrick