Laura Kerr

Practice Areas

Environmental attorney Laura Kerr helps clients solve complex challenges arising under federal and state environmental laws. She regularly advises on compliance issues, navigates permitting processes, manages environmental risks in transactions and resolves environmental disputes and enforcement actions.

Laura guides clients through the multitude of regulations governing air and water quality, waste management, chemical spills, land contamination and other environmental liabilities. Her background includes working with issues connected to such statutes as the Clean Water Act (CWA); Clean Air Act (CAA); Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA); Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA); Emergency Planning & Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA); and analogous state laws.

Career

Laura’s experience prior to entering the legal profession as a researcher and educator in environmental science enhances her ability to translate complicated scientific ideas and find workable solutions to environmental problems facing clients. Laura previously worked with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and for a natural resources nonprofit organization that partnered with the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Geological Survey at Mount St. Helens.

Professional Memberships

- Board of Directors, Mentoring Committee, Women in Environment

- Northwest Environmental Business Center