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• Alternative Energy - Environmental
• Clean Water Act
• FDA Practice
• Global Product Stewardship
• NEPA and State NEPA - Environmental
• Ocean and Coastal Resources
• Pesticides
• Superfund/CERCLA
• Toxic and Harmful Substances/TSCA
• Water Supply and Quality - Environmental
• Workplace Health and Safety

• University of Michigan (B.S., Natural Resources, 1997)
• Johns Hopkins University (M.S., Environmental Science, 2002)
• University of Maryland School of Law (J.D., Order of the Coif, 2005)

• Maryland
• District of Columbia

Ami Grace-Tardy is an Associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., with an environmental regulatory compliance practice in a wide array of areas, primarily focused on Clean Water Act environmental compliance counseling and product regulation.  

Ms. Grace-Tardy counsels both municipal and private clients on a variety of Clean Water Act regulatory requirements and defends clients against Clean Water Act enforcement actions.  She has published several articles regarding emerging clean water trends and regulatory mechanisms such as water quality trading, and recently gave a presentation on watershed-based regulation at the 81st Annual Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference, the largest water quality event in North America.

In the growing arena of product regulation, Ms. Grace-Tardy has counseled manufacturers of electronics, pharmaceuticals, and pesticides, as well as other industrial and consumer products, regarding compliance with the FFDCA, TSCA, and FIFRA.  She assists clients in understanding and complying with FFDCA food additive regulations in the U.S. and counterpart regulations in the EU.  Ms. Grace-Tardy advises individual businesses as to TSCA regulatory requirements and state industrial and consumer product regulation.  Regarding FIFRA, Ms. Grace-Tardy has also represented multinational corporations in FIFRA data compensation arbitrations, focusing on the defense of data owners against follow-on registrants of pesticides.  She helps draft documents for commercial transactions for task forces supporting pesticide registration. For the pharmaceutical industry, she facilitates an EHS roundtable of senior in-house counsel and keeps pharmaceutical clients abreast of possible EHS regulatory changes.

Ms. Grace-Tardy has also provided regulatory counseling to a wide variety of public agencies and private clients on hazardous waste, CERCLA (Superfund), NEPA, and clean air regulatory compliance.  In her CERCLA practice, she focuses on allocation issues and contaminated sediment sites.

Significant pro bono matters are a part of her practice.  Ms. Grace-Tardy and others at the firm secured a favorable outcome for a civil rights organization and Hispanic residents pursing a discrimination claim.  She is also representing a low-income client in a probate proceeding and has provided estate planning services to pro bono clients.

Ms. Grace-Tardy received her legal degree from the University of Maryland School of Law (J.D., Order of the Coif, 2005), her graduate degree from Johns Hopkins University (M.S., 2002), and her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan (B.S., 1997).  While attending the University of Maryland, Ms. Grace-Tardy served as a fellow in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland and as an intern with the with the U.S. Department of Justice in the Civil Rights Division.  Ms. Grace-Tardy was a finalist in the Myerowitz Moot Court Competition and a member of the National Moot Court Team. She also served as co-president of the Maryland Environmental Law Society and worked in the University of Maryland's Environmental Law Clinic. 

Prior to law school, Ms. Grace-Tardy was an environmental scientist for a consulting firm supporting EPA’s Office of Water and the grassroots director of the Clean Water Network, a project of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Ms. Grace-Tardy is a member of the Maryland State Bar and District of Columbia Bar.