John advises clients on litigation and contested environmental regulatory matters, enforcement under all environmental media before the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and federal agencies, emergency response and remedial matters, and environmental issues arising in real estate and securities transactions. Representative industries John counsels on all aspects of environmental compliance are iron and steel, oil and gas exploration and production, crude oil and petroleum product terminaling and transportation, manufacturing, and electric power generation.
Before joining Andrews Kurth, between 1986 and 1996 John served as the hazardous waste expert with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters criminal enforcement program and as senior attorney in the Superfund Division of the Dallas Regional Environmental Protection Agency Office, where he continued his involvement with the criminal enforcement program on a part-time basis, and where he was involved extensively in criminal and civil judicial and administrative litigation. |