
Environment
USA Guide 2026 : Texas
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Baker Botts’ Environmental, Safety and Incident Response Team helps clients advance and protect their interests across the full lifecycle of environmental and safety matters—from permitting and regulatory advocacy to litigation, workplace safety, and crisis response. With more than 50 lawyers based in California, Washington, D.C., New York, and Texas, the team handles complex federal and state matters nationwide. The practice offers broad capabilities spanning incident and crisis response, regulatory compliance and permitting strategies, litigation, climate change and sustainability, safety, coalitions, and transactions. Drawing on deep experience across industries including infrastructure, manufacturing, oil and gas, power and renewables, and refining and petrochemical, the team is equipped to address a wide range of environmental and safety challenges.
To learn more about our practice, visit: https://www.bakerbotts.com/services/practice-areas/environmental-safety-and-incident-response
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Baker Botts L.L.P. represented Halliburton Energy Services in mass tort litigation involving groundwater and soil contamination claims relating to a valve manufacturing facility.
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They are absolutely fantastic.
Environment respondentUSABaker Botts has a significant breadth of environmental expertise in the oil and gas, chemical and energy sectors.
Environment respondentUSAOverall the Baker Botts team are very knowledgeable, they have a high level of expertise and having done it all before, nothing is really new to them.
Environment respondentUSABaker Botts' lawyers have a great reputation among regulators.
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Aileen Hooks
Aileen Hooks is frequently called upon to handle environmental law aspects of projects and corporate transactions. She has particular expertise in marine-related work and also handles waste materials, site contamination and carbon capture matters. Senior Statespeople 
Senior Statespeople 
Danny Worrell
Danny Worrell is commended for his long experience handling environment matters for clients in the manufacturing sector. He is particularly noted for his permitting and compliance counseling. Senior Statespeople 
Senior Statespeople 
Molly Cagle
Molly Cagle is a veteran environmental lawyer highly regarded for her expertise in water law. She handles matters arising before various agencies, legislatures and state and federal courts. She covers enforcement defense, litigation and crisis response. Band 1 
Band 1 
Derek McDonald
Derek McDonald is an air quality expert noted for his agency-facing practice. He regularly works with clients engaged in significant infrastructure development projects. He provides great perspective on very technical issues.
Environment respondentUSADerek McDonald has both depth and breadth of working knowledge and technical expertise.
Environment respondentUSA
Band 1 
Band 1 
Matthew Kuryla
Matthew Kuryla is well known for his work counseling industry coalitions. He acts extensively in environmental crisis response, litigation and rule-making proceedings. I like working with him, he is very knowledgeable and he has decades of experience.
Environment respondentUSAMatthew Kuryla is a great lawyer.
Environment respondentUSAMatthew Kuryla does a fantastic job and has really great connections at the state and federal level.
Environment respondentUSA
Band 1 
Band 1 
Scott Janoe
Scott Janoe is highly regarded in the field for his representation of energy, mining and manufacturing clients on a range of environmental issues including permitting, enforcement defense and litigation. He has additional expertise in crisis management and related areas of health and safety law. Scott Janoe is great.
Environment respondentUSAScott Janoe is very impressive.
Environment respondentUSA
Band 2 
Band 2 
Paulina Williams
Paulina Williams is recognized for her handling of water, waste and natural resources matters for clients from the industrial and commercial sectors. She has experience in federal and state actions on behalf of clients. She is brilliant and incredibly pleasant.
Environment respondentUSAPaulina's experience and knowledge with respect to waste issues in Texas is hard to beat.
Environment respondentUSAPaulina Williams is a great lawyer.
Environment respondentUSA
Band 5 
Band 5 
Stephanie Bergeron Perdue
Stephanie Bergeron Perdue focuses on Environmental Quality issues in Texas. Her work includes advising on environmental quality matters, the Texan Pollutant Discharge Elimination system and water rights.
Stephanie Bergeron Perdue is excellent and well respected.
Environment respondentUSA
Up and Coming 
Up and Coming 
Samia Broadaway
Samia Broadaway is an up-and-coming attorney with notable expertise in strategic regulatory counseling in the environment space. She is highlighted for her experience advising on Class VI underground injection well permit applications.
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Scott A. Elliott

Samia R. Broadaway

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Aileen Hooks
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Matthew Kuryla
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Molly Cagle
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Derek McDonald
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Danny Worrell
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Paulina Williams
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Scott Janoe
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Stephanie Bergeron Perdue
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Samia Broadaway
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Band 2 Band 2 USA 2026
Practice area: Environment
Location: District of Columbia
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