Responsive clean air compliance and climate sustainability counsel

Cynthia Faur is an environmental attorney who helps clients on all aspects of environmental law, including solid and hazardous waste, Clean Water Act compliance, endangered species issues and Superfund. She represents clients such as:

• Corporate and real estate companies
• Chemical companies
• Paper mills
• Electric generation companies

Prior to joining Quarles, Cindy served as the confidential senior policy advisor to the region 5 regional administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Bar Admissions

• Illinois

Education

• The University of Chicago Law School (J.D., 1993)

• University of Michigan (B.A., with high distinction, 1989)
  • Phi Beta Kappa

• "Clean Air Act Enforcement and Other Legal Issues"
• "Climate Change Policy and Regulation: Greenhouse Gas Reporting and Initiatives"
• "DC Circ. Sends EPA Back To Industrial Boiler Drawing Board"
• "Developments Under the Clean Air Act – Implications and Ramifications"
• "Environmental Justice Considerations in NEPA"
• "It’s Not Easy Marketing Your Products Green"
• "Making Your Way Through the Ethics Haze: Selected Topics in the Environmental and Energy Context"
• "U.S. EPA - Regulatory Initiatives 2016"
• A Different Take On "Draining the Swamp": President Trump Issues Executive Order Directing Reconsideration and Narrowing of Waters of United States Rule
• Blood From a Turnip? EPA Proposes Lowering Ozone Standard to 65–70 Parts per Billion
• California’s New Climate Disclosure and GHG-Related Claims Laws
• Clean Power Plant Proposed Rule
• Courts Clash on Viability of Greenhouse Gas Public Nuisance Suits
• Cynthia Faur, Michael Mostow and Lauren Harpke Write Law360 Article About A Potential Proposal for Hazardous Substances
• Cynthia Faur, Michael Mostow Write Article for Journal of Federal Agency Action About Environmental Impact of Recent Supreme Court Decisions
• EPA Issues "Tailoring Rule" for Permitting Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• EPA Issues its Long-Awaited Proposal to Designate Certain PFAS as CERCLA Hazardous Substances
• EPA Promulgates Framework for Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• EPA Proposed Rule Would Require Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• EPA Seeking Public Comment on Significant Revisions to the RMP Program
• EPA’s Designation of Certain PFAS as Hazardous Substances Under CERCLA Will Have Wide-Ranging Impacts
• For Hazardous Air Pollutant Sources, “Once In” No Longer Means “Always In”
• FTC Proposal to Modernize Green Guides Clarifies Environmental Marketing Standards
• FTC's Modernized Green Guides Clarify Environmental Marketing Standards
• Happy New Year! Are you Ready for Greenhouse Gas Regulation?
• Industry not Breathing Easier Following Issuance of New Air Quality Standards for Fine Particulate Matter
• New EPA Final Rule Requires Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions - Starting January 1, 2010
• New Phase I Standard ASTM E1527-21 Authorized for All Appropriate Inquiries Starting February 13, 2023
• New Proposed Rules Establish Framework for Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Through Title V and PSD Permits
• OSHA Issues New Guidance for Reopening Nonessential Businesses
• President Biden Begins to Tackle Climate Change and Environmental Justice through Executive Action
• President Trump Declares Energy Independence and Changes the Way the Federal Government Addresses Climate
• Redefining Waters of the United States…Again Still Going with the Flow
• SEC Issues an Administrative Stay of its Climate Disclosure Rules
• SEC Proposes Extensive Climate Change Reporting Obligations for Public Companies
• Supreme Court Curbs EPA’s Approach to Regulating GHG Emissions from Existing Power Plants
• The Future of Environmental Regulation after the Supreme Court Decisions in Loper Bright and Corner Post
• The SEC Issues Final Climate Disclosure Rules for Public Companies, but Legal Challenges are Pending
• This issue contains the following articles: U.S. EPA Issues Proposed Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding; EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule: What It Portends For Greenhouse Gas Emissions Regulation; U.S. Supreme Court To Address Superfund Cleanup Liability
• U.S. EPA's Jurisdiction Over Wetlands Dries Up Under Landmark Supreme Court Ruling
• USEPA Announces Policy of Enforcement Discretion Related to COVID-19 Crisis
• USEPA Issues Interim COVID-19 Guidance for Environmental Cleanup Site Field Work Decisions
• What to Expect from the Biden Administration: Key Environmental and Natural Resource Issues to Watch
• Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Outlines its COVID-19 Environmental Compliance Process
• ​Where Do We Go From Here? D.C. Circuit Decision in the Industrial Boiler MACT/Incinerator Rule Challenges Takes Boiler Operators Down an Uncertain Road

Seminar

• 2020 Virtual Legal Ethics Seminar
• Making Your Way Through the Ethics Haze: Selected Topics in the Environmental and Energy Context
• Video Replay | 2020 Annual Legal Ethics Seminar
• Video Replay | 2020 Annual Legal Ethics Seminar