Environment

Bracewell has one of the largest and most highly respected environmental practices in the United States. Our team combines legal and policy depth with knowledge in media relations and lobbying, all focused on energy, environmental and natural resources issues faced by companies across the United States. This comprehensive and holistic approach enables us to advise clients facing severe challenges that arise simultaneously in litigation, legislative debates, agency actions and public discourse. 

We provide a uniquely informed perspective based on decades of experience working at the forefront of issues facing companies in the oil and gas, refining, power generation and transmission, chemical, manufacturing, technology, mining and construction sectors.

Clients turn to us for advice and guidance on policy matters at the top of the national agenda, including:

• offshore wind development
• renewable fuels standards
• regulation of greenhouse gases
• carbon capture utilization and sequestration (CCUS)
• Clean Water Act, Section 401 reform
• Infrastructure development
• NSR reform
• renewable energy policies
• hydrogen development
• onshore and offshore royalty disputes
• oil and gas leasing and decommissioning
• Chemical Safety Board reform
• NEPA reform

We handle regulatory matters for energy and energy-related companies before a myriad of federal agencies.