Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Proposes Penalty Policy Revision

Dorothy E. Watson is of counsel at Foley & Lardner LLP and a member of the agency’s Environmental Regulation Follow and Vitality and Manufacturing Trade Groups.

Ms. Watson has labored with shoppers on a variety of environmental issues, together with compliance counseling, rulemaking, allowing, website remediation, brownfield redevelopment, company transactions, and litigation issues. Her expertise extends to issues underneath Superfund, RCRA, the Clear Air Act, the Clear Water Act, TSCA, FIFRA, MSHA, and OSHA, in addition to state environmental rules. Ms. Watson has suggested municipalities and public utilities along with each privately-held and publicly-traded firms.

Ms. Watson has further expertise within the areas of land improvement, actual property and municipal legislation. Her work in these areas has usually concerned evaluation of land titles, surveys, and improvement plans, drafting and negotiation of buy agreements and crafting of municipal ordinances.

Along with her authorized expertise at Foley, Ms. Watson served as in-house environmental counsel for Schlumberger, the worldwide chief in oilfield expertise and companies. On this capability, Ms. Watson supplied counsel on environmental issues worldwide, together with issues associated to chemical regulatory compliance and oilfield-specific rules.