Angela is an administrative law practitioner with more than thirty years of experience in the environmental and natural resources arena. As a member of the firm’s environmental practice group, Angela works with clients across the energy sector on environmental regulatory, permitting, and compliance matters, as well as energy-related legislation.

Angela helps clients navigate evolving laws and regulations at the state and federal level relating to climate change, air quality, water quality and regulation, wetlands mitigation, endangered species, land use, and solid and hazardous waste management. In addition to electric utilities and power plant owners and operators, her clients include manufacturers, developers, trade associations, and government entities.

Angela is a thought leader on the Clean Air Act, recently co-authoring Clean Air Act Essentials, Third Edition, published by the American Bar Association. She advises energy sector clients on major air-related issues, including Title V air operation permits, New Source Review permitting (PSD and Nonattainment NSR), state and federal emission standards (including NSPS and NESHAPs), federal and state ambient air quality standards, regional haze, mobile source programs, NSR enforcement initiative defense, and responses to Section 114 information requests. Practicing in Florida for many years, Angela has a strong understanding of Florida air rules and the regulatory framework utilized by Florida agencies in implementing Florida’s State Implementation Plan and Florida's Section 111(d) Plans. Angela has actively monitored Florida and federal legislative and regulatory actions related to air emissions, climate change, and stationary sources since the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments.

In the context of climate change, Angela provides advice and counsel related to sustainability and the regulation and reduction of greenhouse gases, cap and trade programs, emission standards and reporting, federal carbon dioxide emission standards for utilities, and renewable energy projects and tax credits.

Angela also maintains a robust practice providing clients with solutions-based natural resources and water-related advice and counsel. She has the know-how to address complex water quality and regulatory matters related to consumptive use, industrial and thermal discharges, mixing zones, entrainment and impingement, impacts from air emission deposition, and water quality standards for groundwater, surface, and drinking water. Her experience also includes wetland mitigation and mitigation banks, jurisdictional determinations, and environmental resource permitting.

Utilizing her unique capabilities and extensive experience, Angela stays ahead of emerging legal trends and developments, including statutes and environmental regulations related to renewable energy and clean power, sustainability, and environmental justice.

Angela is Board Certified by the Florida Bar in Federal and State Government and Administrative Practice. She is also a tribal citizen of the Cherokee Nation, which is comprised of the descendants of Cherokees and Cherokee Freedmen.

Education
BA, Northeastern State University, summa cum laude, 1987

• Law of Environmental Protection Treatise, Environmental Law Institute, Chapter 12, Air; and Co-author of Part XI on New Source Review with Colin Campbell and Bernard (Bernie) F. Hawkins, Jr.
• Air Emissions and NHSM Waste Determinations—Certain Uncertainty, American Bar Association Natural Resources & Environment, Vol. 28, No. 3
• Improving Regulations for Biomass-Based Electrical Generating Facilities, American Bar Association, Natural Resources & Environment, Vol. 23, No. 1
• Title V Permit Renewals, American Bar Association Environment, Energy, and Resources Section, Trends
• Clean Air Act Essentials, American Bar Association, 3rd edition
• The Clean Air Act Handbook, American Bar Association, Chapter 15, Overview of the Title V Operating Permit Program
• New Source Review Permitting, Florida Environmental and Land Use Law 23.2.1, Treatise of The Florida Bar Environmental and Land Use Law Section (Chapter on New Source Review permitting)
• New Federal Renewable Fuel Standard Program Rules and Potential Obstacles for Implementation, American Bar Association Natural Resources & Environment, Vol. 25, No. 4
• Improving Air Quality to Meet Revised Soot Standard Could Harm U.S. Economy, Concrete Products