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Mary Katherine Andrews is a member of the Environmental Practice and the Water Law Practice in Greenberg Traurig’s Denver office.

She represents public and private clients on an array of environmental regulatory, permitting and litigation matters as well as transactional support and due diligence. She advises on environmental assessment and liability matters, complex regulatory and jurisdictional issues, state and federal administrative rulemaking and appeals, climate change and renewable development, energy and infrastructure projects, mineral rights and mining matters, water quality matters, air quality matters, hazardous materials contamination, and other compliance and enforcement cases.

Her practice also focuses on water related transactions, litigation matters, and related administrative proceedings involving the adjudication of water rights, changes of water rights, water rights disputes and appeals.

Concentrations

  • Agency rulemaking
  • Environmental compliance and enforcement actions
  • Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG)
  • Federal regulation and permitting under the Clean Air Act, Endangered Species Act, Federal Land Policy and Management Act, Mineral Leasing Act, National Environmental Policy Act, and National Historic Preservation Act
  • Project permitting
  • Public land and land use

Capacidades

Experiencia

  • Student Attorney, BU Law Civil Litigation Clinic, 2020
  • Judicial Extern, Hon. Indira Talwani, U.S. District Court of Massachusetts, 2019
  • Legal Intern, Office of General Counsel, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, 2019

Reconocimientos y Liderazgo

  • Team Member, a Law360 “Environmental Practice Group of the Year, 2022
  • Associate Representative, Colorado Legal Aid Foundation, 2023-Present
  • Member, Colorado Bar Association, 2022-Present
    • Executive Council Member, Environmental Law Section, 2024-2025
  • Member, Boston Bar Association, 2021-Present
  • Member, Massachusetts Bar Association, 2021-Present
  • Member, Denver Bar Association, 2022-Present

Credenciales

Educación
  • J.D., Boston University School of Law
    • Editor, International Law Journal
  • B.A., Environmental Studies and Philosophy, magna cum laude, Boston College
    • Phi Beta Kappa
Con licencia para ejercer en
  • Colorado
  • Massachusetts

Related Capabilities

Ambiental Water Law Litigio Minería Energía y Recursos Naturales Renewable Energy American Indian Law