Kelley Drye

	William M. Guerry Jr.
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	Washington, D.C. Phone: (202) 342-8858 Fax: (202) 342-8451

Bill Guerry is a partner in the firm's Washington, D.C. office. His practice focuses on environmental and renewable and alternative fuels. For more than 20 years, Mr. Guerry has represented corporate clients and national trade associations on major environmental matters before the U.S. Congress, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), numerous state EPAs and the federal courts.

For the last 10 years, Mr. Guerry has served as lead outside counsel on all legal issues to the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI), which represents manufacturers of lawn and garden equipment and small engines.

Clean Air Act
Mr. Guerry is a nationally recognized lawyer in the Clean Air Act as it applies to "mobile sources," including non-road engines, vehicles and equipment, and to renewable and alternative fuels such as biodiesel, synthetic fuels and ethanol.

Mobile Sources. – Mr. Guerry has worked successfully on legislation, regulations and litigation to expand federal pre-emption over conflicting state and local requirements to ensure uniform, national regulation of "mobile sources." His experience includes all aspects of federal and California exhaust and evaporative emission regulations – applicable to off-road engines and equipment - including certification, importation, distribution and enforcement. He has successfully resolved more than a dozen enforcement cases brought by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) or EPA against individual non-road engine and equipment manufacturers. Mr. Guerry is among the founders of Californians for Enforcement-Reform and Transparency (CERT), a group that encourages improvements to CARB’s enforcement program.

Alternative and Renewable Fuels. – Mr. Guerry has extensive experience working on legislative and regulatory issues involving mid-level ethanol. His representation of the AllSAFE consumer and manufacturing coalition resulted in favorable amendments to the fuel waiver provisions of Section 211(F)(4) of the Clean Air Act. He currently represents producers of renewable synthetic diesel fuel derived from woody biomass. Mr. Guerry also serves as General Counsel and represents the Low Carbon Synthetic Fuels Association (LCSFA) before EPA and other government entities.

Stationary Sources. – With respect to "stationary sources," Mr. Guerry's experience includes new source review (NSR), prevention of significant deterioration (PSD), new source performance standards (NSPS), and hazardous air pollutants and related permitting programs, as well as responding to EPA Section 114 information requests and related citizen suits and enforcement matters.

Climate Change
Mr. Guerry has substantial experience providing strategic legislative and regulatory counsel to shape climate change initiatives such as: renewable, low-carbon fuels; offsets for the biosequestration of carbon; and financial incentives for the production and sale of alternative fuels and cleaner technologies.

Hazardous Waste
Mr. Guerry counsels clients on hazardous waste regulations governing the generation, storage, treatment, disposal, recycling and export of secondary materials from steel manufacturing, metal recycling and industrial laundering, as well as environmental remediations, including corrective action.

Other Areas
Mr. Guerry represents clients in connection with the management and disposal of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA); various Clean Water Act compliance issues, including point-source and stormwater permits and discharge limits; all aspects of Section 313 of the Emergency Planning & Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), including the calculation of activity thresholds and the reporting of toxic releases; and toxic tort litigation involving disinfection byproducts in drinking water.

Prior Experience
Mr. Guerry served as a law clerk to Virginia Supreme Court Justice Charles S. Russell from 1986-1987.

Practice Areas

- Environmental Law - Occupational Safety and Health - Government Relations and Public Policy - Trade Associations

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