Robert Fox

Practice Areas

Corporate and Commercial Transactions

Corporate Compliance and Other Regulatory Programs

Emergency Planning and Response

Energy

Litigation

PFAS and Emerging Contaminants

Site Development and Brownfields Redevelopment

Superfund and Site Remediation

Superfund Allocation

Waste

Water

Career

Partner Robb Fox has a diverse practice involving compliance counseling, litigation and transactional work for clients in the waste, chemical manufacturing and development industries and on behalf of cities and municipalities. He is known nationally for his work under the federal Superfund law including handling many high-profile Superfund matters such as the Keystone Landfill matter, featured on 60 Minutes, and the Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek sites. He regularly litigates Superfund issues of first impression at the trial and appellate levels in multiple jurisdictions.

Robb’s litigation experience extends to superfund cost recovery, class action and toxic tort defense, trials and appeals before federal and state courts and administrative tribunals. He also represents local, regional and national clients in the environmental aspects of business transactions, ranging from redeveloping brownfields (he assisted in the drafting of the 2002 brownfields amendment to the federal Superfund law) to managing liabilities in the environmental acquisition and divestiture of multinational companies.

Professional Memberships

Admitted in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.

Litigation Counsel of America, Fellow

Publications

Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox Partner Robb Fox Testifies Before Senate Committee on Superfund Law

MGKF Special Alert - April 10, 2025

Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox Partner Robb Fox Testifies on PFAS before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works

MGKF Special Alert - March 21, 2024

MGKF Podcast

Leading the Way: Governor Shapiro’s Environmental Agenda

February 28, 2023

Shapiro Administration Policy on Energy and the Environment

MGKF Special Alert - Pennsylvania Forecast 2023 - January 18, 2023

Personal

Transition Personnel Committee for Governor-Elect Josh Shapiro's Transition Team, 2022-2023

SEPTA - Board Member (2023-present)

Philadelphia Zoo - Board Member (2023-present)

Jewish National Fund - Executive Committee Housing Fund

University of Pennsylvania, B.A.

Education

Work Highlights

Compliance Counseling

Compliance, permitting and site remediation issues for a national solid waste corporation, a national hazardous waste recycler, several multi-national chemical manufacturers, petroleum companies and convenience store operators;

drafting comments for companies and trade associations on proposed federal and state environmental rulemakings;

liability, remedy selection, allocation, and natural resource damage issues for potentially responsible parties at Superfund and RCRA corrective action sites in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York, and in California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Ohio, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont and West Virginia; and

drafting and assisting in the passage of the 2002 brownfields amendment to the federal Superfund law on behalf of a national trade association.

Litigation

Superfund litigation involving successor liability, unilateral orders, remedy selection, consent decree enforcement, allocation, and private party liability issues;

class action defense relating to property damage and annoyance and inconvenience;

defense of toxic tort matters involving personal injury and property damage claims;

all aspects of administrative appeals before the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board and United States Environmental Appeals Board, including permit appeals, enforcement matters, and challenges to agency regulations and actions; and

all aspects of appellate practice, including appearing before all Pennsylvania appellate courts, the United States Supreme Court, and the First, Second and Third Circuit Courts of Appeal.

Transactional

brownfield redevelopment and funding for national and regional industrial, commercial, and residential developers and investment companies; and

acquisition and divestiture of national and multi-national corporations or divisions of national and multi-national corporations, including agreement drafting and environmental due diligence.

Robb has been an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School for 25 years and taught environmental law to Chinese lawyers and judges for Temple University’s Law School in Beijing, China. He is also a frequent lecturer at environmental conferences, including the annual ALI/ABA environmental and environmental litigation conference in Washington, DC, and has written on a variety of topics, including Superfund cost recovery and contribution, Superfund allocation, storage tank litigation, environmental due diligence, municipal waste regulations, brownfields development, class action and toxic tort defense and ethical issues.

Awards