Kevin J. Garber

Kevin Garber concentrates much of his practice in the areas of environmental, natural resources and water law. He represents mining and oil and gas companies in the conventional and unconventional industries on a broad range of environmental issues including permitting, water supply and treatment, and resource development. Kevin has extensive environmental litigation experience representing clients before the Environmental Hearing Board in Pennsylvania and in trial and appellate courts. In administrative proceedings, he has represented clients challenging permits, contesting civil penalties and compliance orders, and defending against challenges brought by citizens’ groups, among other matters. Kevin regularly counsels oil and gas production, midstream, storage and transportation companies on federal, state and local environmental regulations affecting their operations, and handles environmental matters in involving natural resource transactions. He counsels mining clients on a wide range of environmental matters including water and air permits, bonds, and treatment trusts. Kevin also regularly handles NPDES permitting matters and appeals; defends citizens’ suits under the federal Clean Water Act and similar state laws; and represents landowners and others with respect to groundwater protection issues. He leads the firm’s municipal environmental services practice relating to sewage facility planning and permitting, storm water management and similar development issues facing developers, municipalities and municipal authorities. He serves as special environmental counsel to many municipalities, authorities and developers in western Pennsylvania.

Kevin’s practice also covers the cleanup and redevelopment of industrial sites under federal and state hazardous waste and brownfields laws. In Pennsylvania, for example, he regularly counsels clients in the purchase, sale and cleanup of property using Act 2 to address environmental concerns. He also conducts and reviews environmental audits of various types of industrial, commercial, and mining properties for buyers, sellers, lenders and trustees, and negotiates environmental provisions of transactions, contracts and deeds.

In addition, Kevin also practices intellectual property law. He is a registered patent attorney and prosecutes trademark applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Allegheny County Bar Association (Past Chairman, Environmental Section)

Pennsylvania Bar Association (Served on the Council of the Environmental, Mineral and Natural Resources Law Section)

American Bar Association

Duquesne University School of Law (Adjunct Professor of Law)

Duquesne University's Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences (Adjunct Faculty Member)

Duquesne University Center for Environmental Research and Education (Advisory Committee)

Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce (Board of Directors)

3 Rivers Wet Weather Demonstration Program (Board of Directors)

Allegheny Land Trust (Former Board Member; Past Chairman; President of the Board of Directors)

Local Government Academy (Former Board Member)

Pennsylvania Environmental Council (Former Board Member)

Duquesne University School of Law

J.D.

1987

University of Pittsburgh

Ph.D.

1983

University of Wisconsin

MS.

1981

Pennsylvania State University

B.S.

1978