maz@bcltlaw.com
Tel: 415 228 5400

Marc A. Zeppetello

Practice Areas

Air Quality and Climate Change

Brownfields

Investigation and Remediation

Environmental Litigation

Citizen Suits

Cost Recovery and Cost Allocation

Enforcement Actions

Toxic Torts

Land Use, Development and Natural Resources

CEQA/NEPA and Entitlements

Environmental Due Diligence and Transactions

Wetlands

Waste

Water Quality

Marc Zeppetello is a partner with Barg Coffin Lewis & Trapp, LLP, and was formerly a partner with Morthole & Zeppetello. Marc has extensive experience with counseling and litigation related to federal and state environmental laws, with emphasis on the Clean Water Act, cleanup of contaminated property and cost recovery, hazardous waste management, the Clean Air Act, and land use.

Marc's professional expertise includes:

Negotiating wastewater discharge permits, cleanup orders, and air emissions permits; commenting on proposed federal regulations to establish wastewater effluent limitations and air emissions standards
Analyzing hazardous waste management compliance issues under federal and California law; negotiating corrective action requirements
Defending CERCLA cost recovery actions and Clean Water citizen suits; representing plaintiffs to recover costs for cleanup of contaminated property and in citizen suits under RCRA and Proposition 65

Honors

Marc has been honored numerous times as a "Super Lawyer" by San Francisco magazine in an annual survey of Northern California lawyers.

Education

Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, J.D., 1985
Order of the Coif; Editor-in-Chief, Ecology Law Quarterly
State University of New York, College of Environmental Science & Forestry, B.S., Resources Management, 1977
Class Valedictorian