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Partner & Head, Government Relations
Federal Government Relations
Washington
(202) 955-1529 Phone
(202) 778-2201 Fax
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Chemical Facility
Security Regulation
Climate Change Law
and Policy
Congressional
Investigations
Government Relations
Homeland Security
Practice
International
Environmental,
Health & Safety Law
- Overview
Trade and
Environment Law and
Policy
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Practice focuses on issue advocacy before Congress, White House and other Executive Branch officials in the areas of global climate change, renewable and bio-fuels, the Clean Air Act and other environmental laws, energy policy and Homeland Security. Also provides strategic planning for corporations developing environmental mission statements or undertaking long-term business planning.
Relevant Experience 
- Represent industry clients on proposed climate change legislation and EPA regulatory programs impacting greenhouse gas emissions.
- Represent major U.S. refiners on renewable fuels program and related federal tax issues.
- Represent individual electric utility companies and trade associations on proposed multi-emissions legislation, as well as EPA's regulatory proposals on mercury emissions and regional transport.
- Represent major chemical industry trade association and individual companies on chemical plant security legislation, and implementation by the Department of Homeland Security.
- Represent chemical manufacturer on Montreal Protocol implementation issues and ongoing treaty negotiations.
- Provide strategic planning advice to companies on climate change and other future environmental regulatory programs and legislation, including CEO briefings.
- Named by The Hill newspaper as a "Best in the Business Hired Gun," and as a top lobbyist in three different sectors: Clean Air/Global Warming, Chemical, and Refining.
- Lead U.S. House staffer on several Clean Air Act amendments and other environmental legislation.
- Lead U.S. House staffer on the 1999 Chemical Safety Information Act, which placed certain reasonable, national security-based limitations on the distribution of sensitive "worse-case scenario" data for chemical facilities.
- Primary U.S. House conference negotiator for TEA-21 provisions establishing more flexible implementation of EPA's ozone and particulate matter emission standards.
- Member of U.S. delegation to global climate change treaty negotiations.
- Member of U.S. negotiating team for U.S./Canadian transboundary ozone agreement on power plant emissions.
- Lead Counsel in planning and conducting numerous U.S. House Commerce Committee legislative and oversight hearings on environmental and administrative law issues.
Additional Experience
Expansion of the Energy Infrastructure: Oil & Gas Pipelines
Background
- Counsel, Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., 1997-2003. Advised Chairman on environmental and energy legislation, climate change and homeland security issues. Conducted numerous oversight and legislative hearings. Member of U.S. delegations to various international environmental treaty negotiations.
- Associate, Beveridge & Diamond, Washington, D.C., 1991-97. Concentrated in Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and RCRA compliance work for corporate clients.
- Associate, Hale and Dorr, Washington, D.C., 1989-91. Concentrated in Clean Water Act and RCRA compliance work for corporate clients.
- Analyst, House Rules and Natural Resources Committees, State House, Boston, Massachusetts, 1984-86
Membership
- Member, District of Columbia Bar Association
- Member, American Bar Association
Education - J.D., Boston University School of Law, 1989
- B.A., Boston University, Economics, 1984
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Joseph Stanko, Jr.
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