Clean Air Act Advocacy: Tips and Skills for Addressing Regulatory, Permitting and Enforcement Issues with Clients, Regulators and the Public

Lauran M. Sturm is Assistant General Counsel with the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, where she specializes in air, waste, and public records matters.

Before joining state government, Lauran was an associate with Stites & Harbison, PLLC in Louisville, Kentucky, and an associate and partner with Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis LLP in Nashville.

She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame and Indiana University Maurer School of Law.

Jennifer Biever practices at the forefront of environmental and permitting issues affecting energy and natural resource companies, including the current high-profile issues related to evaluation and regulation of methane in the oil and natural gas industry.

Jennifer not only assists in evaluating, commenting on, and contesting state and federal regulatory regimes affecting environmental requirements and compliance, but Jennifer's wealth of knowledge and experience allows her to assist companies in the implementation of compliance evaluation programs, handling of environmental enforcement matters, due diligence in transactions involving such environmental requirements, permitting of significant and comprehensive natural resource projects, and litigation related to such permitting actions.

With a keen focus on natural resource projects on public lands, whether it's transmission infrastructure, ski area developments, mining projects, oil and gas field development, or large-scale renewable energy development, Jennifer can help with all aspects of projects related to federal and state agency review, consultation, and permitting on a range of issues, and governing statutes involving a variety of issues from air quality, to water quality, to wildlife species.

Based in Denver since 2004, but practicing nationally and throughout the Rocky Mountain West, Jennifer brings advanced strategic thinking on comprehensive policy and legal matters, having the benefit of direct exposure to and experience of client operations and business needs on the ground in the region. This broad-based experience enables Jennifer to provide strong advice that reduces permitting delays, minimizes litigation risk, and ensures effective engagement with a variety of stakeholders (government, public, and private) on a wide range of important and significant energy, infrastructure, and natural resource projects.

Edward L. "Skipp" Kropp focuses his practice in the area of environmental law and is resident in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is a former Chief of the West Virginia Division of Environmental Protection Office of Air Quality and former Deputy Director of the West Virginia Division of Environmental Protection. He began his career performing atmospheric chemistry research for Battelle Memorial Institute in Ohio and has over 25 years of experience as both in house counsel and in private practice.