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Partner
Environmental
Richmond
(804) 788-8568 Phone
(804) 788-8218 Fax
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Air
Brownfields
Redevelopment
Carbon Capture and
Storage
Coal
Endangered and
Threatened Species
Environmental
Environmental Audits
& Compliance
Assessments
Environmental
Enforcement and
Defense
Environmental Issues
In Business
Transactions
Government Relations
New Source Review
TSCA
Waste
Wetlands, Endangered
Species & Natural
Resources
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Practice focuses on air permitting and enforcement, wetlands, hazardous waste management, voluntary remediation, economic development, and environmental aspects of business transactions.
Relevant Experience 
- Environmental permitting counsel to project developers of fifteen power plants (10 coal based, 5 natural gas).
- Counsel in New Source Review enforcement actions against two facilities.
- Counsel to pulp and paper, electric generation and specialty chemical facilities in air permitting matters.
- Developed environmental management systems for two steel companies, integrated food company and public utility company.
- Represented a paper company in the divestiture of substantially all of its United States operating assets.
- Drafter and chief lobbyist for Virginia Voluntary Remediation and Voluntary Environmental Assessment Privilege statutes.
- Negotiated settlement with EPA, area landowners and local government for remediation of National Priorities List Superfund Site and conversion to community recreation complex.
- Counsel to developer regarding conversion of former Army Depot to commercial and residential use.
- Negotiated settlement of Federal RCRA and State enforcement cases for permitting, closure, postclosure care and corrective action at hazardous waste management facilities.
- Counsel to owner/developer which converted antebellum plantation manor house listed on National Register of Historic Places into corporate university campus.
Background
- Refinery Design Engineer, Chevron, U.S.A.
- Adjunct Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Engineering
Membership
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, Virginia State Bar
- Member, Virginia Bar Association
Awards and Professional Recognition
- Member, American College of Environmental Lawyers
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, 2006-2008
- Listed in Chambers and Partners, America's Leading Lawyers for Business, 2004-2008
- Selected to Virginia's Legal Elite, Virginia Business Magazine, December 2000-2004
- Listed in "Virginia Super Lawyers," Richmond magazine, 2005-2008
- Listed in Who's Who in Executives and Professionals
Education - J.D., The University of Texas School of Law, 1985
- M.B.A., University of Texas, 1985
- B.S.M.E., Northwestern University, 1981
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Kevin Finto
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