Peter H Weiner
USA Guide 2023
Band 1 : Environment
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Peter Weiner is a nationally recognized regulatory attorney who focuses on environmental and renewable energy law.
A prominent attorney with a top Chambers USA environmental ranking, Peter focuses on complex environmental, energy, land use and real estate matters. He has decades of experience representing renewable energy companies, developers, manufacturers, waste recyclers and consumer products companies in federal, state, and local environmental, energy, and OSHA regulatory matters, litigation, and legislation.
Peter’s energy practice includes representation of solar energy, onshore and offshore wind, geothermal, and biomass companies. He is an expert in project siting, federal siting laws, and species issues. In his environmental practice, he focuses on brownfield redevelopment, California Environmental Quality Act and NEPA, land use, superfund, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, hazardous waste management, species and wilderness protection, Proposition 65, OSHA, and environmental insurance. As the former Special Assistant to the Governor (Jerry Brown) for Toxic Substances Control, Peter has been involved in these areas of land use and environmental law for more than 35 years.
Education
Yale University
J.D.
1970
London School of Economics
B.A.
1967
Harvard University
B.A.
1966
Awards
Energy Regulation: Conventional Power
Legal 500
2021
Environment: Regulatory
Legal 500
2021