Marlene S. Gomez is an associate in the Litigation Department and a member of the Climate Change and Sustainability Initiative and the Environment and Natural Resources Group. Her practice involves assisting clients in a wide range of environmental litigation, transactional and regulatory counseling, and compliance matters.
Ms. Gomez has represented clients in litigation concerning underground storage tanks, groundwater contamination, wind energy facilities, and claims brought under the National Environmental Policy Act. She also has experience in handling environmental aspects of real estate and business transactions. Ms. Gomez represents lenders, developers, and other clients involved in projects that carry risk arising from the presence of contamination or sensitive features such as wetlands, endangered species, and historic resources. As a result, she is called upon to help clients navigate difficult and complex environmental permitting and quasi-land use issues related to siting decisions made by such clients.
In March 2009, Ms. Gomez co-taught a continuing legal education course, "Dredging and Subaqueous Lands," offered by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute at the 2009 Environmental Law Forum. She also co-authored the legal section of "Assessment of Risk, Legal Issues, and Insurance for Geologic Carbon Sequestration in Pennsylvania," a report to the Pennsylvania General Assembly prepared by Tetra Tech, Ballard Spahr, and others for the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.