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Baltimore

• Alternative Energy - Environmental
• Biotechnology
• Climate Change
• Environmental Litigation
• Pesticides
• Environmental
• Litigation

• University of Maryland College Park (English, 1999)
• University of Maryland School of Law (J.D., with honor, Certificate in Environmental Law, 2003)

• Maryland (2003)
• District of Columbia (2004)
• American Bar Association - Chair, Agriculture Management Committee

Alan Sachs is an associate in the Baltimore office of Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., practicing environmental law with an emphasis on the field of pesticide regulation under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the regulation of fuels and renewable fuels under the Clean Air Act (CAA), and the regulation of biotechnology products and biofuel feedstocks by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration. His practice includes general regulatory counseling with regard to pesticide, biofuel and biotechnology products, as well as the defense of the rights of pesticide data owners and the arbitration of compensation claims under FIFRA.  He also counsels Israeli renewable energy companies and other Israel-based manufacturers on U.S. environmental regulatory compliance issues.

Mr. Sachs graduated, with honor, from the University of Maryland School of Law in 2003, where he was awarded a concentration in environmental law. He was an associate editor for the Maryland Law Review, co-president of the Maryland Environmental Law Society and a member of the Order of the Coif. He graduated from the University of Maryland in College Park in 1999 with a B.A. in English. Mr. Sachs is a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia Bars and chair of the ABA Section of Environment, Energy and Resources' Agricultural Management Committee.