Barbara J. Koonz

Practice Areas

Managing Partner. Chair, Energy, & Renewable Resources practice. Focuses in environmental and energy law, with emphasis on environmental permitting for redevelopment, environmental compliance, development and transfer of electric generation facilities, and renewable energy projects. Extensive experience related to solar projects. Advises domestic and overseas businesses on state and federal environmental permitting, regulatory compliance and scientific data to manage environmental remediation, ISRA compliance, NJ Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permitting, air permitting, CAFRA permitting, waterfront development, wetlands permitting. Serves as local counsel to secure all requisite local, state, energy and environmental permitting and approvals for the development and operation of electric generation facilities, including renewable and clean energy projects in New Jersey. Advises private and public entities in fossil fuel, liquefied natural gas and renewable energy industries in connection with acquisition, project management, development and permitting of energy facilities and related infrastructure. Environmental permits and approvals for projects and facilities including interstate pipelines, LNG facilities and independent power producers, overseeing all aspects including due diligence and coordination of stakeholders, state agencies and federal entities including the EPA and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Professional Memberships

American College of Environmental Lawyers Fellow

American Bar Association, Section of Environment, Energy and Resources

Energy Bar Association

Pennsylvania Bar Association; Sustainability Task Force (former Member)

Florida Bar Association

U.S. Geological Society

New Jersey State Bar Association; Corporate Sustainability, Cleantech, and Climate Change Special Committee, Member and past Co-Chair; Public Utility Law Section; Environmental Law Section; Ethics Committee (past Chair- Fee Arbitration)

NJ Licensed Site Remediation Professionals Association (LSRPA)

Sustainable Jersey Brownfield Redevelopment Task Force

NAIOP New Jersey

New Jersey Builders Association, Environmental Committee

New Jersey Women Lawyers Association

Rutgers Center for Urban Environmental Sustainability Brownfield Redevelopment Task Force (former Member)

Appointed by the Supreme Court of New Jersey to serve on the New Jersey Lawyers Assistance Program (NJLAP) Board of Trustees

As an advocate for public safety, Ms. Koonz is the former chair and serves on the Middlesex County ASAP Board for the rehabilitation and re-entry of drug dependent inmates,.

Personal

Seton Hall University School of Law (1989)

University of Pennsylvania, Graduate Studies in Hydrogeology (1985)

Franklin & Marshall College (1983)