Meredith draws on her analytical skills, leadership capabilities, and environmentally-focused academic background to prudently represent clients. Meredith’s varied practice is a testament to her dependability in helping clients handle multifaceted and evolving environmental matters.

Meredith’s experience within the environmental practice group includes matters related to enforcement and permitting, regulatory compliance, environmental due diligence in infrastructure acquisitions, climate change litigation, and contractual risk management.

Relevant Experience

• Assist client in contested case hearing before administrative tribunal in connection with state agency permitting for renewable natural gas projects.
• Help manage various climate change litigation cases in relation to cities and counties across the country, claiming that oil-and-gas company client (and others) is liable under state common law nuisance theories.
• Perform environmental due diligence regarding the acquisition of water infrastructure projects.
• Analyze CERCLA liability of client subject to potential government enforcement for Superfund Site cleanup.
• Assess litigation issues in connection with client’s environmental-related contractual obligations.
• Facilitate closings in connection with multi-million dollar business transactions and real estate acquisitions.
• Represent pro bono clients in immigration related issues.

Education
BA, Amherst College, Environmental Studies and Psychology, 2017

• EPA’s New Approach to Risk Management For Chemicals Under the Toxic Substances Control Act, PCI Magazine
• The Department of Defense Is Poised to Update Its Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap to Consider “Mitigation Measures”: Now Is the Time to Nationally Regulate Solar Radiation Management, 22 N.C. J.L. & TECH. 487
• The Future of Flood Insurance and Its Environmental Justice Implications on North Carolina’s Low-Income Communities