Carol McCabe

Practice Areas

Air

Corporate Compliance and Other Regulatory Programs

Emergency Planning and Response

Energy

PFAS and Emerging Contaminants

Site Development and Brownfields Redevelopment

Waste

Water

Career

Carol is the managing partner of Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox LLP, working in the firm's complex industrial and regulatory practices. She has worked with a broad range of industrial clients in the manufacturing, energy and waste management sectors. Carol counsels clients on a wide variety of environmental issues, including permitting, compliance and enforcement matters related to air emissions, storage tanks, stormwater, wastewater, and hazardous and non-hazardous waste. She has assisted clients with regulatory compliance, environmental auditing, emergency planning, permit appeals, and defense of agency enforcement actions. She has represented clients before the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board, the New Jersey Office of Administrative Law, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Appeals Board, and the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals. Carol has supported our clients in the environmental aspects of corporate transactions, and in remediation matters.

Professional Memberships

Admitted in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

American College of Environmental Lawyers Fellow.

Pennsylvania Environmental Council Board member.

Chemistry Council of New Jersey, Board of Trustees, Associate Member Representative, 2024-2026

Publications

Rewriting Risk: EPA's Evolving Chemical Review Actions Under TSCA

November 6, 2025

The Legal Intelligencer

Comparing the PFAS Actions of the Trump and Biden Administrations: More Similar Than Expected?

June 2, 2025

The Legal Intelligencer

Air Chapter of the 9th Edition of the New Jersey Environmental Law Handbook

June 5, 2020

Co-authored by members of the MGKF Air Quality Practice Group

New Jersey Environmental Law Handbook (Ninth Edition)

Personal

Support Center for Child Advocates volunteer attorney.

St. Joseph's Preparatory School Board of Trustees

Women's Energy Network

Pennsylvania Environmental Council - Chair, Board of Directors, since 2014

Education

Work Highlights

Some of Carol's representative matters include the following:

Assisting client in navigating complex regulatory programs in a wide variety of industrial sectors, including printing and surface coating, chemical manufacturing, waste management, food manufacturing, scrap metal recycling, inks and pigments manufacturing, oil and gas distribution, specialty metal products manufacturing, glass manufacturing, and paperboard manufacturing;

Conducting environmental audits and guiding clients in undertaking corrective actions where necessary, including self-disclosures to both EPA and state agencies in the areas of air regulatory compliance, release reporting, and community right-to-know reporting;

Assisting clients in securing air permits for high profile projects, including preparation of air permit applications, negotiation of draft permit conditions, addressing third party interests and appeals of air permits;

Defending environmental enforcement actions brought by state agencies or EPA, including appeal, negotiation, and settlement of air enforcement actions in various states and before the Environmental Protection Agency;

Assisting clients in reviewing and commenting with respect to proposed environmental rulemaking at the state and federal level, and pursuing judicial and administrative challenges of final Agency rulemakings; and

Assisting clients with novel and complex air regulatory issues, including air toxics, unregulated contaminants, air modeling and ambient monitoring.

Awards