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Practices:

• Environment, Energy & Product Regulation
  • CERCLA, Remediation and Brownfield Redevelopment
  • Chemicals, Pesticides and Product Regulation
    • Pesticides
  • Climate, Energy and Sustainability
  • Hazardous Waste Management
  • National Environmental Policy
  • Occupational Safety and Health Act
  • Water Resources
• Litigation
  • Federal Issues Litigation

Industries:

• Chemicals
• Climate, Energy and Sustainability

Civic Activities:

• Board of Directors, Montgomery County Revenue Authority (Maryland)

Professional Activities:

• Founder / Board of Directors, Association of Climate Change Officers
• Chair, Environmental Litigation and Toxic Tort Committee, ABA Section on Environment, Energy and Resources (SEER)
• Board of Advisors, Chemical Waste Litigation Reporter

Experience

Peter L. Gray serves as National Chair of the firm’s Environment, Energy and Product Regulation Department. Since joining the firm in 1985, he has worked on a broad range of environmental matters, including disputes over responsibility for cleanup of contaminated property, challenges to state and federal environmental regulations, enforcement cases involving hazardous materials, arbitration in data compensation claims involving pesticide data submissions, and climate change planning and advocacy.  Mr. Gray has been recognized by Chambers USA as a leading Environmental attorney in the Washington, DC area and in Super Lawyers as a leader in his field. 

In addition to his environmental litigation practice, Mr. Gray has a diverse Washington, DC-based regulatory practice in which he regularly represents clients before numerous federal agencies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation, and counsels clients on hazardous materials management, release reporting requirements and climate change.

Mr. Gray writes extensively in the environmental area. Recent manuals and treatises he authored include The CERCLA Basic Practice Manual (published by the American Bar Association 2008); the Pesticide Regulation Handbook (2007); and The EPCRA Basic Practice Manual (published by the American Bar Association 2002). . Mr. Gray also participates as a commentator in broadcast media, having appeared on Fox Business News and Bloomberg Radio. 

Mr. Gray frequently writes for the Washington Legal Foundation, and he is a member of the Board of Advisors to the Chemical Waste Litigation Reporter. He has served in many leadership roles in the ABA Section on Environment, Energy and Resources. He currently serves as the Chair of the Environmental Litigation and Toxic Torts Committee, and he is the incoming chair of the Site Remediation Committee. 

Notable Engagements

• National coordinating counsel for multinational munitions company on Superfund litigation. In this capacity, Mr. Gray has orchestrated the company's defense of dozens of federal and private cost recovery cases filed against the company in connection with cleanup of contamination linked to a pesticide which the company sold in the 1960s and 1970s.
  
• Represented Fortune 500 Company in Natural Resource Damage action filed by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. (NJDEP v. 3M et al.).
  
• Defended numerous Fortune 500 and multinational corporations in enforcement actions brought by state agencies and EPA under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ("RCRA").
  
• Represented numerous companies in enforcement actions brought by the U.S. Department of Transportation under the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act.

Education

• J.D., The George Washington University Law School, 1985
• M.S., The George Washington University, 1982
• B.S., University of Maryland, 1979

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia
• Pennsylvania