Recent Supreme Court Decisions and Their Effect on Environmental Law: Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, TSCA, CERCLA, and RCRA, including PFAS compounds and stormwater permits

S. Wayne Rosenbaum | The Environmental Law Group, LLP Varco & Rosenbaum

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S. Wayne Rosenbaum is a partner of the firm practicing in the areas of environment, land use and natural resources, with an emphasis on water quality and land use laws affecting infrastructure and renewable energy projects. He develops compliance strategies for clients regulated under the storm water provisions of the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, the California Environmental Quality Act and other state and federal resources statutes. Relying on his broad experience with environmental permits and environmental management systems, Wayne helps clients develop and implement solutions to environmental regulations that are both legally defensible and economically sustainable. Wayne also assists his clients in defending their regulatory compliance programs against challenges by regulatory agencies and environmental groups.

Prior to joining Environmental Law Group LLP, formerly known as Opper & Varco LLP, Wayne was a partner at Stoel Rives LLP and, previous to that, with Foley & Lardner LLP. Before entering private practice, Wayne served with the Department of the Navy, Office of General Counsel, where he concentrated on the transfers of contaminated properties under the Base Realignment and Closing Act, environmental audits, waste minimization plans, regulation of storm water discharges at federal facilities and interagency funding of environmental projects.

Before working with the Navy, Wayne spent 18 years as an executive in the environmental services industry. At Recontek, he served as executive vice president and chief operating officer, where he led a team of environmental professionals who successfully obtained RCRA Part B permits in seven states. Before that, he served as assistant vice president for Eticam, where he was responsible for environmental permitting of new facilities.

Grant Olsson | The Environmental Law Group, LLP Varco & Rosenbaum

Grant Olsson is an associate at the Environmental Law Group and specializes in a wide range of environmental litigation and regulatory compliance. He has experience litigating hazardous waste cleanup, underground storage tank, stormwater, easement, and land use matters implicating CERCLA, RCRA, the Clean Water Act, the Porter Cologne Act, and CEQA. Mr. Olsson also provides nuanced analysis  of potential environmental liabilities and compliance strategies, and works cooperatively with local, state, and federal regulatory agencies.

Mr. Olsson received his Juris Doctor from the University of San Diego School of Law in 2017 and his Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, San Diego in 2013. He is admitted to practice in the courts of California and in the United States District Courts for the Southern and Central Districts of California.

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III. Clean Water Act | 2:10pm – 2:40pm

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