Erica M Spitzig
USA Guide 2024
Up and Coming : Environment
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About
Provided by Erica M Spitzig
Practice Areas
Environmental Litigation
Environmental Regulatory
Environmental
PFAS (Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances)
Experience
Erica focuses her practice on environmental matters. She has significant experience representing clients on Clean Water Act matters, and has worked extensively with municipalities on clean water legal and regulatory issues. Her work includes counseling clients on NPDES permitting, compliance, and appeals; stormwater permitting; and enforcement defense. She has also represented state and national associations as amici curiae in cases involving the Clean Water Act in the Ohio Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court.
In addition to her clean water expertise, Erica also represents clients on a wide array of environmental matters. She assists clients with permitting and compliance involving a variety of media and statutes, including the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Federal Insecticide and Rodenticide (FIFRA), among other federal, state, and local environmental laws. Erica also has extensive experience with Brownfields laws and regulations, and works with clients to remediate properties contaminated by long histories of industrial use under CERCLA and state laws, including the Ohio Voluntary Action Program.
Education
Georgetown University Law Center
JD
2006 - 2009