Julie Kaplan

OF COUNSEL

jkaplan@superlawgroup.com

301-758-3786

Julie Kaplan, a graduate of Yale Law School, has decades of experience practicing environmental law.  Her extensive career encompasses litigation on behalf of environmental groups, including as a senior attorney for the Sierra Club and the Environmental Integrity Project.  She also worked as an environmental enforcement attorney prosecuting polluters for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Section, as an attorney counseling primarily on environmental matters with the U.S. Department of Transportation, and in private practice representing, among other clients, governments and environmental groups.  Matters on which Julie has worked and developed expertise include Clean Water and Clean Air Acts, RCRA, CERCLA, NEPA, FOIA, coal ash, climate change, environmental justice, and clean energy.

Bar Admissions:

• U.S. Supreme Court

• U.S. District Courts in Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia

• Washington, D.C.

Selected Presentations and Publications:

• Hot Topics in Environmental Enforcement and Compliance, American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources 2013 Fall Conference

• “Does EPA’s View of the Clean Water Act Shield Shield Too Much?” 2013 Annual American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources Fall Conference

• "Poisonous Procedural Reform: In Defense of Environmental Right-to-Know," 12 Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 579 (2003) (co-author with John Echeverria)