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Katharine E. WagnerPartner Contact Info: Practice Areas: Additional Areas of Expertise: Bio Katharine Wagner is a senior partner in the Environmental Law Practice Group. Her clients, primarily industrial and commercial businesses, landowners and special districts, rely on Katharine to chart the best course through complex and sometimes conflicting regulatory requirements imposed at all levels of government to address water quality, environmental cleanups, waste handling and resource recovery. Her work emphasizes protecting the enterprises that build and support the communities in which they operate. This requires sophistication in both the regulatory and business environments affecting power generation, mining, construction, agriculture and petroleum operations, as well as public and private investments in wastewater and groundwater treatment systems.
Katharine provides enforcement defense serving both immediate goals and long term regulatory objectives of her clients before the California Water Quality Control Boards, California counties and air quality management districts, U.S. EPA, the Department of Toxic Substances Control and the Integrated Waste Management Board. Her work minimizes client liability at cleanup and “brownfield” sites using appropriate diligence to spot areas of exposure, and administrative defense and creative remediation and indemnity agreements to facilitate dispute resolution and transactions.
In the fast-changing world of water quality protection, Katharine negotiates and advocates for workable NPDES and state water quality permits, and regulatory initiatives that allow her clients to participate productively in the water quality planning process. This has included representation in TMDL and Basin Plan proceedings, and the development of general wastewater and storm water permits.
Katharine is an active member of environmental committees of the California Construction and Industrial Materials Association, the Association of California Water Agencies, and the State Bar of California Real Property Section. Her work in the area of environmental law has been recognized as a Super Lawyer for Northern California in San Francisco magazine and Northern California Super Lawyers magazine, based on a peer review process conducted by Law & Politics magazine. Before joining Downey Brand in 1987, Katharine practiced business law at the Palo Alto office of Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe. Katharine graduated from Georgetown University Law Center, magna cum laude, and was an associate editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. Prior to her legal education, she majored in Biology and Environmental Studies at Brown University.
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