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

Pamela Marks' practice focuses on environmental regulatory and permitting issues and associated litigation, with an emphasis on 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, and permitting.  

Ms. Marks’ recent matters have included: coal combustion byproduct-related regulatory advice, and resolution of associated litigation; RCRA compliance at chemical plants and related EPA investigations; solid waste permitting; NPDES permit and regulatory advice; litigation concerning landfills, CERCLA, cost recovery, and related bankruptcy issues; underground storage tank enforcement defense; and multi-media environmental auditing advice. She also has assisted clients with development of compliance plans and negotiation of air pollution enforcement resolutions.  Clients have included individuals, non-profit organizations, state and local governmental entities, and businesses in the chemical, power-generation, land development, biosolids, glass, petroleum, publishing, beverage, and maritime industries.

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 the Maryland voluntary cleanup program and brownfields tax credit program.

From 1986 to 1997, 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 control, oil control, sediment control, and air pollution control programs. In this role, she negotiated a federal / state / private facility multimedia enforcement and compliance agreement, to create a framework for a more cooperative approach to resolving contentious environmental compliance issues at a 100-year old manufacturing plant.  She also worked in close coordination with the EPA and Department of Justice on companion federal / state enforcement under Superfund, and litigated federal, state and administrative cases.    

As an Assistant Attorney General, Ms. Marks 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 CERCLA federal facility 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 is president of the Maryland Chapter of the National Brownfield Association, a non-profit, educational organization dedicated to stimulating the responsible redevelopment of contaminated properties.  Other leadership roles have included 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.