Amber is a seasoned Texas-based litigator who represents energy, infrastructure, and industrial clients in complex environmental, water, products liability, regulatory, and appellate matters. She guides clients through high-stakes disputes and strategic decision-making involving Clean Water Act (CWA) compliance, Texas water permitting, enforcement defense, and products-related claims arising from regulated operations and materials. Clients frequently engage Amber to lead dispositive and pre-trial strategy, resolve threshold legal issues, and position matters for early and cost-effective resolutions, particularly in cases involving water impacts, alleged product-related environmental harm, infrastructure siting, and energy development across the country.

Amber brings a strong track record of successful motion practice and interlocutory appeals in Texas courts and before state agencies, with additional litigation experience in California. She regularly represents clients in enforcement and permitting matters before the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and the Texas Railroad Commissions and has achieved favorable outcomes for clients facing complex regulatory and litigation risks. She also helps clients protect sensitive business information and trade secrets, drawing on her deep knowledge of the Texas Public Information Act (PIA) to navigate public-records requests and disclosure risks in permitting, enforcement, and contested proceedings.

Her recent work includes negotiating the dismissal of a threatened Clean Water Act citizen suit in California prior to filing and obtaining a favorable settlement with the Texas Railroad Commission regarding hydrogen storage, enabling a client to advance a novel Texas energy project while managing regulatory, enforcement, and litigation risk.

Before joining B&D, Amber served as Assistant Attorney General in the Texas Office of the Attorney General, where she was the Managing Attorney of the Natural Resources and Environmental Defense Section in the Environmental Protection Division. In that role, she counseled state agencies and officials on Texas water quality, environmental enforcement, permitting, rulemaking, cost recovery, eminent domain, and public information matters. Earlier in her career, she served as a staff attorney in TCEQ’s litigation division. Through this experience, Amber brings well-established professional relationships with Texas regulators, enforcement agencies, and opposing counsel, including TCEQ, Texas Railroad Commission, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, and the General Land Office.

During her state service, Amber played a key role in advancing Texas’s environmental initiatives. Amber’s federal court successes include enjoining EPA’s “waters of the United States” rule, EPA’s PM2.5 rule, and the Department of Energy’s LNG export "pause". Her appellate victories included defending TCEQ and Texas Railroad Commission injunctions involving unauthorized discharges of industrial solid waste and oil and gas waste into a tributary of the Colorado River, defending the General Land Office’s authority over Open Beaches matters, and reversing lower court decisions involving Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Chronic Wasting Disease management initiatives, TCEQ concrete batch plant and LNG air permits, and Railroad Commission saltwater injection permits.

Amber frequently writes and speaks on issues affecting the Texas energy and water sectors, including CWA enforcement and citizen suits, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and water contamination issues, products-related environmental liability, public information and transparency laws, and legal challenges affecting emerging energy technologies such as hydrogen and other energy-transition initiatives.

An active member of the Texas legal and conservation community and currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Texas Bar’s Environmental and Natural Resources Law Section