Attorney Assistant Attorney General, Environmental Protection Bureau - Albany (3761)
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About The Position
The Office of the New York State Attorney General's (OAG) Environmental Protection Bureau is seeking litigators to serve in the Albany or New York City offices. This position involves representing the state in environmental, public health, and energy matters in lawsuits in state and federal court, and in proceedings before administrative agencies. The Environmental Protection Bureau enforces state and federal environmental laws that protect New Yorkers' rights to clean air, clean water, and safe and healthy communities, and conducts investigations into violations of those laws. The bureau is focused on advancing environmental justice throughout the state, including addressing the inequitable distribution of pollution and other environmental health burdens, and associated health disparities. The bureau also defends in both federal and state courts the state's executive agencies charged with environmental responsibilities, including the Departments of Environmental Conservation, Health, and Transportation; the Adirondack Park Agency; and the Lake George Park Commission, among others. The bureau is a national leader in multistate federal environmental advocacy and litigation. This opening is primarily for attorneys interested in affirmative litigation and investigations to enforce state and federal environmental laws and regulations. Recent matters handled by the bureau's attorneys include leading a multistate coalition in litigation to defend EPA's greenhouse gas emissions standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants; a natural resource damages action to recover for the lost use of a public park in an environmental justice community as a result of illicit dumping; advocating for national standards to protect workers from extreme heat; lead paint hazard enforcement in low-income residential housing; and school bus engine idling enforcement. Attorneys also develop and litigate contaminated site cleanup cost recovery actions, and recently negotiated agreements regarding the decommissioning and cleanup of nuclear power plants and surrounding sites that are viewed as national models.
