Retired Partner
Prior to his retirement, John represented a broad range of clients in a variety of environmental settings, including regulatory compliance counseling, regulatory enforcement actions, transactions, and litigation. His experience extended across the spectrum of federal environmental laws, including the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act, and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund), as well as numerous state and local counterparts. John had extensive experience assisting clients in the development and implementation of compliance auditing programs and on-going compliance monitoring, the issuance of environmental permits, the defense and resolution of administrative and judicial enforcement actions, transactional due diligence and risk allocation, NEPA-related project development, and site assessment, remediation, and redevelopment. Prior to joining Troutman Pepper, John served as Chief of the Air and Toxics Branch and Chief of the Hazardous Waste Branch in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Regional Counsel in Atlanta.