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0 <br />A~.L~TCJN + ]& I R.D ivy <br />environmental iitigadon, and hazardous materials transportation topics. <br />He also regularly presents on existing and emerging greenhouse gas <br />regulatory regimes. Most recently, he presented on "'Going Green' <br />Strategies: Legal Considerations for Corporate Environmental Initiatives" <br />at the Annual Meeting for the North Carolina Bar Association's Business <br />Law and Corporate Counsel Sections on February 22, 2008. <br />Representative Experience <br />Counseling corporations on their carbon risks and opportunities.. ' <br />• Advising manufacturers of, emission reduction technologies on <br />availability of greenhouse gas and other emission reduction <br />credits. <br />• Successfully defended local solid waste "flow control" ordinances <br />from constitutional challenge. See Quality Compliance Services, <br />Inc. v. Dougherty County, Georgia, No. 1:05-CV-19 (WLS), 2008 <br />WL 906443 (NI.D. Ga. Mar. 31, 2008). <br />Successfully challenged constitutionality of Georgia statute <br />restricting interstate shipments of waste. See Fulton County v. <br />City of Atlanta, 280 Ga. 353, 629 S.E.2nd 196 (Ga. 2006). <br />• Successfully defended•class-action challenge to presence and use <br />of fiber optic tines constructed across right-of-way easements. <br />See Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia v. Gold-Arrow Farms, <br />Inc., 276 Ga. App. 862, 625 S.E.2d 57 (Ga. Ct. App. 2005). <br />Lead environmental. counsel to largest city in the Southeast on <br />successful $35 million brownfields transaction. <br />Representation of Fortune 50 worldwide transportation and <br />logistics company and Fortune 50 diversified chemical company on <br />hazardous materials safety and security issues in all modes of <br />transportation. <br />Publications <br />• "'Atlantic Research' Leaves Issue for Lower Courts," The National <br />Law7ournal, October 15, 2007. <br />"Climate Change: The Commercial Deployment of Carbon Capture <br />and Storage Technology," Environment Reporter, Vol. 38, No. 37, <br />BNA, September 21, 2007. <br />• "The Commercial peployment of Carbon Capture and Storage <br />Technology," BNA Daily Environment Report, September 19; 2007. <br />"Federal Regulation of Hazardous Materials Taanspartation," <br />Natural Resources & Environment, Fall 2006. <br />