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Elizabeth E. Aldridge

Counsel

Overview

Liz’s practice focuses on a broad range of environmental issues arising under federal and state laws, with a strong emphasis on issues involving water regulations.

Relevant Experience

  • Provides daily representation to an association of electric utilities on water regulatory developments, including answering questions on NPDES permitting issues and developing extensive technical and legal comments on EPA regulatory proposals.
  • Managed industry efforts on revised steam electric effluent guidelines rule.
  • Assisted individual electric utilities with NPDES permit compliance questions, permit renewals, and challenges to state water rules and requirements.
  • Advised individual electric utilities seeking to obtain thermal variances or negotiate permit conditions related to cooling water intake structures.
  • Advised multiple electric utilities on issues regarding the impact of TMDLs on NPDES permits.

Accolades

Honors & Recognitions

  • Recognized as 2021 Environmental Group of the Year, Law360, January 2022
  • 2021 and 2017 Chambers USA Environment Law Firm of the Year

Insights

Events & Speaking Engagements

  • May 13, 2015
    Event
    Speaker
    FGD Wastewater: Industry Perspectives, EPRI ENV-Vision Conference, Arlington, VA
  • March 26, 2012
    Event
    Speaker
    Effluent Guidelines: EPA Revisits Wastewater Regulations for Steam Electric Plants, ASME Research Committee on Power Plant and Environmental Chemistry, Williamsburg, VA
  • March 15, 2012
    Event
    Speaker
    Revision of the Steam Electric Effluent Guidelines, EEI Environmental Health and Safety Task Force, Albuquerque, New Mexico
  • September 15, 2009
    Event
    Speaker
    Regulatory Issues on the Waterfront: Effluent Guidelines and Coal Ash, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Meeting
  • August 15-16, 2006
    Event
    Speaker
    Regulatory Update: Steam Electric Effluent Guidelines, at the Electric Power Research Institute's workshop,The Impact of FGDs on Wastewater, held in Atlanta

Publications

  • May 2007
    Publication
    Co-author
    Wastewater Discharge Rule Changes May Be Costly, Public Power Magazine
  • December 2004
    Publication
    Co-author
    Outline of RCRA/CERCLA Enforcement Issues and Holdings, Chemical Waste Litigation Reporter, 26th edition

Education

JD, The University of Texas School of Law, with honors, 1988

BA, University of Delaware, summa cum laude, 1981

Admissions

Virginia

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