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PATRICK H. ZAEPFEL is Of Counsel to the firm and a member of the firm’s Real Estate and Business Law Groups. Mr. Zaepfel’s environmental litigation practice includes an array of Superfund and enforcement defense cases, ranging from CERCLA cost recovery and contribution matters to air, water and wetlands enforcement defense suits. Mr. Zaepfel has extensive experience in regulatory counseling and permitting issues under the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, RCRA and their state law analogs. He also advises clients on environmental issues arising during the transfer and closure of industrial properties and has represented clients at over 100 contaminated sites, in over a dozen states. During his education, Mr. Zaepfel held internships with the Pennsylvania State Senate President Pro Tempore Robert Jubelirer and U.S. Senator Arlen Specter, a clerkship with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of General Counsel (Air and Radiation Division), and a legal fellowship with the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Zaepfel served as an Assistant Counsel for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, where he concentrated his efforts on administrative counseling and litigation involving CERLCA, HSCA and the Pennsylvania Land Recycling Act (Act 2). Mr. Zaepfel is the former Environmental and Regulatory Counsel to the P. H. Glatfelter Company, a $1.5 billion NYSE company and global producer of pulp and paper products. In that role and in his private practice, Mr. Zaepfel served as the company’s primary counsel on the remediation of Operable Unit 1 of the Lower Fox River (Wisconsin) CERCLA Site. Prior to joining Glatfelter, Mr. Zaepfel worked with LeBoeuf Lamb (now Dewey LeBoeuf) in Pittsburgh, providing environmental counsel to Alcoa under a retainer arrangement where he managed legal affairs at nearly 60 Superfund sites around the United States. PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Federal Clean Water Act, in ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS, ABA Press, Larry Schnapf, ed. (forthcoming). Environmental Considerations in Buying and Selling a Business, in BUYING AND SELLING A BUSINESS IN PENNSYLVANIA, 6th Ed., PBI, D. Mark Grimm, ed., 2009. "Laws, Rulings Force Manufacturers to Alter their Accounting Practices," Pittsburgh Business Times, November 24, 2006. "The Price of Progress: Computers and Solid Waste," ABA Section on Environment, Energy and Resources, Solid Waste Committee Newsletter, July 2000. Co-author, Emissions Monitoring and Any Credible Evidence, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Special Institute on Air Quality Regulation 2000, February 2000. The Reauthorization of CERCLA NRDs: A Proposal for a Reformulated and Rational Federal Program, 8 VILL. ENVTL. L. J. 359 (1997). Co-Author, The Law and Scientific Uncertainty in Environmental Matters, in John Lemons, ed., SCIENTIFIC UNCERTAINTY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM SOLVING (1996). Legislating for Scientific Uncertainty: Preserving Administrative Flexibility to Interpret “Species” Under the Endangered Species Act, 4 DICK. J. ENVTL. L. & POL’Y 152 (1995). |
