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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
• Infrastructure Projects
• Land Use and Natural Resources - Environmental
• Site Remediation
• Solid Waste and Resource Recovery
• Superfund/CERCLA
• Voluntary Initiatives and Programs
• Water Supply and Quality - Environmental
• Litigation

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

• Maryland
• District of Maryland
• American Bar Association
• Maryland State Bar Association
• Baltimore City Bar Association

Pamela Marks' practice focuses on environmental regulatory and permitting issues and associated litigation, especially solid and hazardous waste, oil, remediation, and water pollution issues.  Ms. Marks is managing shareholder of Beveridge & Diamond’s Baltimore, Maryland regional office.  Her litigation experience includes both civil and administrative actions on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants. Ms. Marks' regulatory practice includes counseling on environmental compliance, enforcement actions, environmental management and audits, and permitting.  

Ms. Marks’ recent matters have included: RCRA and other solid waste compliance at chemical plants; arbitration of a multi-party cost recovery action; solid waste permitting; energy industry waste management issues, including coal combustion byproduct-related regulatory advice and resolution of associated litigation; NPDES permitting and regulatory advice; underground storage tank enforcement defense; and multi-media environmental enforcement defense and auditing advice. She also recently assisted clients with resolution of State air pollution enforcement actions.  In the bankruptcy context, Ms. Marks has experience with the overlay of bankruptcy and environmental liabilities.  Representative clients have included businesses in the chemical, power-generation, land development, biosolids, solid waste treatment, glass, petroleum, publishing, and beverage industries, as well as individuals, non-profit organizations, and governmental entities.

With respect to Brownfields and contaminated properties, 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, RCRA, FUSRAP, and state and federal hazardous waste, and oil control programs. She has assisted clients with obtaining approvals under Maryland’s voluntary cleanup program and brownfields tax credit program.

Before joining Beveridge & Diamond, Ms. Marks served as a Maryland Assistant Attorney General, representing the Maryland Department of the Environment. Her environmental experience spanned counseling, negotiation, and litigation concerning hazardous waste, Superfund, water pollution, oil, sediment, and air pollution programs. In this role, she negotiated one of Maryland’s most complex federal / state / private facility multimedia environmental enforcement agreements.  Ms. Marks also handled her office's federal facility compliance work, and served as a National Association of Attorneys General representative (along with representatives of DOD and other federal agencies) on an EPA task force to analyze federal facility remediation procedures.  She also provided advice regarding proposed State legislation and regulations, and counseling a Governor's Task Force on Brownfields.  In 1997, Ms. Marks received the Attorney General's Exceptional Service Award.

Ms. Marks served as a law clerk for the Honorable Joseph H. Young of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.

Ms. Marks’ leadership roles in the community have included President of a state chapter of the National Brownfield Association, Chair of the Environmental Law Section Council, Maryland State Bar Association, and President of the Women's Law Center of Maryland, and service with other nonprofit boards.