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201 North Charles Street
Suite 2210
Baltimore, MD 21201-4150

Baltimore

• Brownfields - Environmental
• Clean Water Act
• Environmental Audits and Compliance Assessments
• Environmental Management
• Hazardous Waste/RCRA
• Land Use and Natural Resources - Environmental
• Site Remediation
• Solid Waste and Resource Recovery
• Superfund/CERCLA
• Voluntary Initiatives and Programs
• Water Supply and Quality - Environmental
• Environmental
• Litigation

• University of Michigan (B.A./Political Science, magna cum laude, 1982)
• University of Pennsylvania (J.D., 1985)

• Maryland (1986)
• District of Maryland (1987)
• American Bar Association
• Maryland State Bar Association
• Baltimore City Bar Association

Pamela Marks' practice at Beveridge & Diamond's Baltimore office focuses on environmental regulatory and permitting issues and associated litigation, with an emphasis on regional state and local matters, brownfields, environmental remediation, hazardous and solid waste management, water regulatory issues, and superfund. Her litigation experience includes both defending and prosecuting civil and administrative actions. Ms. Marks' regulatory practice includes counseling on environmental compliance, enforcement actions, environmental management, and environmental audits, in addition to permitting issues. With respect to her brownfields and contaminated properties practice, Ms. Marks has represented potential buyers and current owners on issues related to voluntary and mandatory remediation of hazardous substances, petroleum, and radioactive materials under a variety of state and federal remediation programs including CERCLA, FUSRAP, and state and federal hazardous waste and oil control programs. She has assisted clients with obtaining approvals under the Maryland voluntary cleanup program as well as Maryland's brownfields tax credit program. She has also assisted clients with issues related to air quality and permitting.

From 1986 to 1997, Ms. Marks served as a Maryland Assistant Attorney General, representing the Maryland Department of the Environment. As an Assistant Attorney General, her environmental experience included counseling, negotiation, and litigation concerning hazardous waste, Superfund, water pollution control, oil control, sediment control, and air pollution control programs, as well as multi-media enforcement initiatives. She worked in close coordination with the EPA and Department of Justice on companion state/federal enforcement under Superfund and on multi-media enforcement. She also handled her office's federal facility compliance work, and was a leader on federal facility environmental enforcement issues through her work as representative to the National Association of Attorneys General. On legislative issues, Ms. Marks counseled a Governor's Task Force on Brownfields and voluntary cleanup programs, and advised the State on a variety of draft regulations and proposed laws. In 1997, Ms. Marks received the Attorney General's Exceptional Service Award. Before Ms. Marks' appointment as an Assistant Attorney General, she served as a law clerk for the Honorable Joseph H. Young of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.

Ms. Marks is immediate past chair of the Environmental Law Section Council, Maryland State Bar Association. In that capacity, she has developed environmental law educational programs for members of the Bar. She is a former president of the Women's Law Center of Maryland and has served in leadership positions on various nonprofit boards in the Baltimore community.