Ankur Tohan

Ankur Tohan is an experienced advisor who helps clients manage their interests in energy infrastructure projects and natural resource development. With a primary focus on renewable energy and carbon management, Ankur supports clients with matters related to permitting, compliance, citizen and governmental enforcement actions, and navigating regulatory challenges. His work spans renewable and conventional power, infrastructure development, carbon capture and sequestration, waste-to-energy projects, and carbon credit transactions.

Ankur advises across a wide spectrum of federal and state environmental, permitting, and enforcement regimes related to wildlife and natural resource management, pollution control, and hazardous waste cleanup. He regularly works with clients on matters involving cornerstone statutes such as the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA), Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act (BGEPA), Endangered Species Act (ESA), Federal Land Policy and Management Act, Clean Water Act (CWA), Safe Drinking Water Act, Toxic Substances Control Act, Clean Air Act (CAA), National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA), Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), and Washington’s Model Toxics Control Act (MTCA).

Before joining Stoel Rives, Ankur was a partner in a multinational corporate law firm. Earlier in his career, he was an assistant regional counsel for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and an assistant attorney general with the Washington State Attorney General’s Office.

Clean-Water Act Handbook, Pre-Treatment and Indirect Dischargers, contributor/editor

ELI - Law of Environmental Protection, Clean Water Act, editor

Washington State Bar Association

Washington State Bar Association, Environmental and Land Use Section, newsletter editor

Cleantech Alliance's Washington Energy Carbon Advancement Network (WECAN), Advisory Board member

Northwest Environmental Business Council, Board of Directors (former)

"Ecology Meets Economics: Conservation and Mitigation Banks," Co-Author, Daily Journal of Commerce, 2 June 2026

“Offshore Wind Auction Results Portend Difficulties In Gulf,” Law360, 12 September 2023

“Washington State Puts Environmental Justice At The Forefront,” Law360, 5 July 2023

"U.S. Supreme Court Issues Landmark Clean Water Act Decision, Significantly Narrowing the Scope of ‘Waters of the United States’ Under Federal Law,” Thomson Reuters Westlaw Today, 8 June 2023

“Proposed Regulations to Improve Offshore Wind Lease Auction Processes and Timelines,” ALI CLE’s The Practical Real Estate Lawyer, May 2023

“A Significant First Step For Pa. Carbon Capture Programs,” Law360, 5 April 2023

“How Proposed BOEM Regs Will Boost Offshore Wind Projects,” Law360, 1 February 2023

“What To Expect From Biden Admin.'s NEPA Updates,” Law360, 12 May 2022

“Carbon Dioxide Shortage in the United Kingdom,” Pratt’s Energy Law Report, May 2022

“California Offshore Wind Ramping Up,” Pratt’s Energy Law Report, May 2022

“NY, NJ Lease Auctions Highlight US Push For Offshore Wind,” Law360, 10 February 2022

"Vacatur Of Trump Water Rule Means More Uncertainty Ahead," Law360, 29 September 2021

“Bridging the GAP Between Environmental Assessments and Carbon Reduction Mandates”, Washington State Bar, Environmental and Land Use Section, 19 August 2021

“Chapter Six: Pretreatment and Indirect Dischargers,” The Clean Water Act Handbook, Fourth Edition

“Chapter 13. Clean Water Act”, Law of Environmental Protection (Environmental Law Series), 2021-1 Edition

“2019 Offshore Wind Handbook”, October 2019

“Permitting for Energy Projects on Washington’s Coast,” NWLawyer, July/August 2017

“When States Fail To Act On Federal Pipeline Permits,” Law360, 24 July 2017

Co-Author, CEQ Issues Final Greenhouse Gas Guidance Directing Federal Agencies to Consider Climate Change in Their NEPA Reviews, Pratt’s Energy Law Report, Vol. 16-9, October 2016

"FWS Bat Intake Rule Won't Drive Project Developers Batty," Law360, 25 January 2016

“Greenhouse Gas Regulation in Washington: What the Clean Power Plan and Washington Clean Air Rule Mean for the State,” Environmental & Land Use Law Newsletter, Washington State Bar Association, Vol. 41, No. 3, November 2015

Lewis & Clark Law School

J.D.

2005

University of Wisconsin-Madison

M.S.

2000

University of Vermont

B.A.

1992