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Doug Cohen has practiced in the energy and environmental field since 1980, first at the United States Environmental Protection Agency, and then at the US Department of Justice.  Since 1988, he has been in private practice primarily representing developers, and manufacturing and industrial clients, financial institutions and utilities.

Doug has experience in all areas of energy and environmental law, including utility and environmental litigation, utility and environmental permitting, environ-mental counseling, and the environmental implications of real estate and business transactions.  In addition, Doug has experience in administrative hearings, practicing before the Connecticut Siting Council, the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control, Office of Health Care Access, and many local wetlands, planning and zoning boards.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

• Brownfields redevelopment efforts, including the redevelopment of the Raymark Industries, Inc. superfund site in Stratford, Connecticut.
• Assisting clients with the environmental and permitting implications of transactions involving large, multi-national corporations, as well as the environmental and permitting implications involved in acquisitions and divestitures under the new utility deregulation statutes.
• Representing various national clients in environmental remediation efforts in New England and throughout the United States.  These efforts include both remediation compelled by a Governmental entity and private party actions.
• Counsel on Superfund matters for both large multi-national companies and smaller, de minimus parties.
• Represents a manufacturing client in a Federal criminal environmental investigation under the Clean Water Act and the Resource Conservation Act.
• Represented a major railroad car manufacturer in a successful precedent-setting litigation matter involving liability for environmental clean up.
• Led Brown Rudnick’s efforts on an environmental and utility review of the acquisition of Dynegy, Inc. a major owner of power plants throughout the US.
• Represented several large industrial clients in structuring and negotiating corporate transactions worth over $2 billion.  These large transactions had significant environmental implications.
• Represented a quasi-governmental entity in obtaining a permit for the expansion of its ash landfill.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS & PUBLICATIONS

• Frequent lecturer and author on a wide range of environmental issues.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Connecticut Bar Association
• American Bar Association

AWARDS & HONORS

• Consistently listed in Woodward/White Inc.'s The Best Lawyers in America for Environmental Law and Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business
• Listed in New York Magazine as one of the best environmental lawyers in the New York Metropolitan area (2005 and 2007)

BAR ADMISSIONS

• Connecticut
• District of Columbia