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Washington, DC 20005-3311
Washington

• Appellate Litigation
• Hazardous Waste/RCRA
• Solid Waste and Resource Recovery
• Spill Response and Reporting
• Superfund/CERCLA
• Voluntary Initiatives and Programs
• Environmental
• Litigation

• College of William and Mary (B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1979)
• University of Michigan (J.D., 1982)

• District of Columbia
• American Bar Association

Donald J. Patterson, Jr. is a member of the Firm's Management Committee, and former co-chairman of the Firm's Environmental Practice Group. In his almost twenty-five years in Beveridge & Diamond, P.C.'s Washington office, Don has represented, among others, mining and mineral processing, automobile, chemical and pharmaceutical companies, other manufacturers, retailers, developers, waste disposal companies, and non-profits in a wide range of environmental litigation, enforcement counseling and transactional matters.

In his environmental litigation/negotiation/ADR practice, he has represented clients in EPA and "state equivalent" CERCLA (including NRD) actions and private party contribution/cost recovery actions across the country, from New Jersey and New York west to Oklahoma and Colorado, and from Wisconsin and Illinois south to Louisiana and Texas. He has defended environmental enforcement actions brought by EPA and other state agencies under RCRA, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, EPCRA and their state analogs, and has defended citizen suits brought under RCRA and the Clean Water Act. In his appellate litigation practice, among other clients, he has represented the National Mining Association (NMA) for almost twenty years, successfully challenging EPA's unlawful expansion of its regulatory definition of solid waste in Association of Battery Recyclers, Inc. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 208 F3d 1047 (D.C. Cir. 2000). Prior to that, he represented NMA and the U.S. mining and mineral processing industry with regard to a series of judicial challenges to EPA rulemakings under the so-called "Bevill Amendment" to RCRA, including Environmental Defense Fund v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 852 F2d 1309 (D.C. Cir. 1988).

Don provides regulatory counseling on municipal hazardous/universal/radioactive waste, and remediation issues, including with respect to "voluntary disclosures," and represents clients with regard to pending RCRA and other rulemakings before EPA. He has been heavily involved in counseling clients in the mining and mineral processing industry with regard to the RCRA regulatory definition of solid waste and the Bevill Amendment, including with regard to historical contamination issues. He has represented clients in the United States and across the world, including in Latin America, with regard to development projects and contaminated properties, including at RCRA Corrective Action sites. He has also negotiated "guaranteed fixed price" remediation approaches on brownfields properties.

Don has provided numerous companies with representation on the environmental aspects of major transactions and due diligence, and has negotiated the allocation of environmental and related liabilities for sellers and buyers in mergers and acquisitions. In addition, he has performed environmental and DOT audits for a wide range of clients, and advised clients with regard to their sustainability programs.

Professional Highlights

Don is a member of the Environmental Law Institute's Council of Partners.  He is AV Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell