Laura Metz Duncan
Associate
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- Climate Change
- Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know
- Environmental Audits and Compliance Assessments
- Environmental Management
- Hazardous Waste/RCRA
- International Environmental Law
- Nanotechnology
- Spill Response and Reporting
- Toxic and Harmful Substances/TSCA
- Trade and Environment
- University of Arizona (B.A. summa cum laude, 1997)
- George Washington University School of Law (J.D., with Honors, 2002)
Laura Duncan is an Associate in the San Francisco office of Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., with a broad environmental practice encompassing regulatory compliance, counseling, and litigation. A significant portion of her practice involves advising clients on worldwide market access regulations for products, restricted materials in the U.S., Asia and Europe, product packaging and labeling requirements, the U.S. Lacey Act, California’s Proposition 65, consumer product safety issues under the CPSIA, nanotechnology, and product take-back/recycling. She also does substantial work related to environmental reporting, release response, and hazardous waste management under the Resource Conservation Recovery Act (RCRA), the California Hazardous Waste Management Act, and international agreements covering the transboundary management of hazardous waste.
Ms. Duncan has helped clients respond to investigations by state, regional and federal agencies. She also works with clients to conduct focused risk assessments and internal audits on restricted chemicals, product compliance, supply chain due diligence and hazardous waste characterization/management. She actively monitors and drafts comments on legislative and regulatory developments related to climate change, California Green Chemistry, emerging chemical listings/restrictions and Extended Producer Responsibility. Ms. Duncan speaks at industry events, provides client training on environmental compliance and assists clients in developing environmental management systems.
Ms. Duncan received her legal degree from the George Washington University Law School (J.D., with Honors, 2002) and her undergraduate degree from the University of Arizona (B.A., summa cum laude, 1997). While in law school, Ms. Duncan was a member of The Environmental Lawyer law journal and worked in the environmental law department of a large D.C. law firm, where she focused on U.S. and international chemical, trade, and product labeling issues.
Ms. Duncan is a member of the State Bar of California and the Virginia State Bar. She is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
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Practice Contacts
- California Releases Chemical Hazard Trait “Green Chemistry” Pre-Regulatory Draft Regulations
- APHIS Proposes Definitions for Lacey Act Exemptions - “Common Cultivar” and “Common Food Crop”
- California's Green Chemistry Draft Regulations for Safer Consumer Products
- California Releases Draft Outline for Green Chemistry Regulations
- Green Chemistry Developments at the Federal and State Levels
- Judgment Against Distributor in Suit to Enforce California Consumer Product VOC Regulations
- Proposed California Law Would Require Producer Take-Back of Household Generated Medical Sharps and Syringes
- California Releases Revised Proposal for Green Chemistry Consumer Product Regulations
- California Adopts New VOC Limits for Multi-Purpose Solvents, Paint Thinners and Air Fresheners
- APHIS Revises Enforcement Schedule for Lacey Act Import Declaration Requirement
- Plastic or Wood? Packaging Wars Break Out at APHIS
- California Developing High-GWP Refrigerant Management Regulations
- CARB Seeks Federal Approval of Amended Consumer Products Regulations for Inclusion in CAA State Implementation Plan
- Mandatory Reporting Deadline Approaching Under California’s Safe Cosmetics Program
- California Solicits Comments on Draft Green Chemistry Regulations
- California Targets Nanometal Oxides, Nanosilver, and Zerovalent Iron in Possible Second Mandatory Data Call-In for Nanomaterials
- Green Chemistry: Implementing Changes to Chemical Use in California
- Update on the Lacey Act Import Declaration Enforcement Schedule
- Lacey Act Amendments Update
- Lacey Act Amendments Impact Wood Products
- California Green Chemistry Initiative Recommends Actions to Address Toxics in Products
- Carbon Nanotubes Targeted in California’s First Mandatory Information Call-In for Nanomaterials
- Upcoming Deadlines Under Lacey Act Amendments