プロフィール
Eric Waeckerlin is a trusted advisor to leading energy, oil and gas, mining, manufacturing, and industrial companies on their most complex and consequential environmental and natural resources matters. He counsels clients through high-stakes regulatory, permitting, enforcement, and policy challenges at the intersection of major project development, air quality, and climate strategy, with a practice designed to support executive decision-making and enterprise-level risk management.
Eric is nationally recognized for his deep skills navigating the federal Clean Air Act (CAA) and its state analogues, and he routinely advises on permitting, compliance, and enforcement matters affecting large-scale conventional and low-carbon energy projects. His experience spans the full lifecycle of major projects—from early siting and permitting strategy through construction, operation, and defense of agency actions—allowing clients to move critical projects forward while managing regulatory, reputational, and financial risk. In addition to the CAA, Eric has substantial experience under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Clean Water Act (CWA), Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
As energy markets evolve, Eric has been at the forefront of advising clients on climate and decarbonization strategies. He counsels companies on domestic and international climate and methane policy, including carbon capture and other CO₂ management regimes, emissions reduction and offset strategies, and participation in carbon and greenhouse gas markets. His work helps clients integrate highly complex regulatory compliance with broader sustainability, investment, and corporate strategy objectives.
In high-stakes litigation and regulatory challenges, Eric has served as lead counsel for national oil and gas trade associations in challenges to federal regulations and has successfully defended oil and natural gas companies in numerous multimillion-dollar air quality enforcement actions brought by the EPA and state agencies. Clients value his ability to combine technical regulatory knowledge with strategic judgment, making him a go-to counselor for executives and management teams navigating the legal risks shaping the future of energy.
Concentrations
- Air Quality
- Climate change regulation and policy
- Carbon management
- Conventional and clean energy project development
- Emerging carbon markets
- Environmental compliance
- Enforcement defense
- Environmental self-audit and disclosure
- Federal and state administrative rulemaking
- Midstream petroleum and natural gas
- Project permitting and permit compliance
- Solid and hazardous waste regulation
- Transactional due diligence
- Upstream petroleum and natural gas
取扱分野
実績紹介
- Lead counsel for multiple E&P and midstream oil and natural gas companies defending against multimillion-dollar air quality enforcement matters brought by the United States Environmental Protection Agency and equivalent state air quality agencies.°
- Counsel to upstream and midstream oil and gas entities on federal air quality and methane emission reduction innovation and monitoring efforts, including the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) Methane Emissions Reduction Program (MERP) .°
- Environmental counsel to the largest construction company in the United States, advising on all aspects of environmental compliance at a major chemical demilitarization facility in Colorado.°
- Counsel to major emerging developers of domestic energy and clean energy projects, advising on federal and state air quality, environmental, carbon capture and sequestration, and alternative and clean fuel regulatory policy.°
- Counsel to multiple Fortune 500, international oil and gas companies, providing advice on a variety of groundbreaking air quality and climate change regulatory and legislative matters.°
- Lead counsel for national oil and gas trade associations in nationwide challenge to the United States Bureau of Land Management’s Waste Prevention rule governing oil and gas operations on federal and Indian lands.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Waeckerlin prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
- Energy Policy Analyst, Western Governors’ Association/Western Interstate Energy Board, 2001-2002
受賞歴・所属団体
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, 2018-2026
- Environmental Law, 2018-2026
- Litigation-Environmental, 2021-2026
- Natural Resources Law, 2021-2026
- Listed, Chambers USA Guide, Environmental Law, 2020-2025
- Listed, 5280, “Top Lawyers,” Environmental, 2021-2026
- Listed, Denver Business Journal, “Who’s Who in Energy,” 2017
- Member, American Bar Association, 2006 to Present
学歴・資格・言語
- 法務博士, University of Montana School of Law
- M.S., Environmental Economics and Policy, Public Land Use, Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Duke University
- B.S., Economics, Environment and Natural Resource Economics, University of Wyoming
- U.S. District Court for the District of Montana, 2005-2006
- Colorado
- コロンビア特別区
- Montana
- Wyoming