Our Air Quality team counsels and represents clients on a variety of matters involving air quality including permitting, rulemaking, enforcement, and litigation.
Clients turn to us for representation before the Environmental Protection Agency, California Air Resources Board, and California’s regional air pollution control districts and air quality management districts including, among others, the South Coast Air Quality Management District, San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District, Bay Area Air Quality Management District, and the Santa Barbara Air Pollution Control District.
We collaborate closely with both clients and regulatory agencies to resolve Notices of Violation (NOVs) and Notices to Comply (NTC), including negotiating reduced penalties and modified permit conditions as part of settlement agreements.
We often go to air district Hearing Board hearings to secure variances from rules and permit requirements for our clients, and we also handle abatement actions, enforcement proceedings, and litigated matters in state and federal courts.
We also represent clients in connection with rulemaking and administrative advocacy as well as trading and acquisition of emissions credits, allowances, and offsets.
For more information, please contact Noah Perch-Ahern and Sedina Banks.
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Tox of the Town
South Coast AQMD Aims to Keep WAIRE Mitigation Program Rollout “Simple,” But Details Still in Flux
May 14, 2026
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California’s Sweeping Climate Disclosure Laws Facing Court Challenge, But That Doesn’t Mean You Can Disregard Them
March 5, 2024
Environmental Partner Sedina Banks and Attorney Samantha Pannier authored, "California’s Sweeping Climate Disclosure Laws Facing Court Challenge, But That Doesn’t Mean You Can Disregard Them" in Corporate Compliance Insights. Excerpts: The lawsuit over California’s new climate disclosure rules, brought by the U.S. and California chambers of commerce as well as the American Farm Bureau Federation, Los Angeles County Business Federation, Central Valley Business Federation and Western Growers Association, seeks to overturn Senate Bill 253 (the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act) and Senate Bill 261 (the Climate-Related Financial Risk Act). These laws require large businesses, including both publicly traded and privately held companies doing business in California, regardless of their corporate domicile, to publicly disclose their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and their financial risks related to climate change. By including privately held corporations, the laws are a departure from the highly anticipated SEC proposed climate change disclosure rules, which will only require disclosure by publicly traded companies. Read the full article here.
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