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Crowell & Moring Client Fights to Build Wind Farm
October 22, 2009 — The Washington Post
Crowell & Moring LLP client Invenergy Wind LLC is featured for its fight to build a wind farm in Greenbrier County, WV. The first of it's kind case presents important issues of first impression for the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and its relationship to wind energy projects on private lands. Crowell & Moring defended Invenergy in a four-day bench trial in federal court in Greenbelt, MD that concluded on October 29. The ruling is forthcoming. The trial team included partners Clifford J. Zatz and Kirsten L. Nathanson, associates Jessica A. Hall, and Antonio Gonzalez Mendoza, with support from ESA attorneys Steven P. Quarles, J. Michael Klise, and Thomas R. Lundquist.Â
Biodiversity: A Passion for Science, Politics, or Both
March 5, 2008 — The Environmental Forum
Environment & Natural Resources Partner Steven P. Quarles was cited for his thoughts on the subject of biodiversity in a recent review of Timothy J. Farnham's book, Saving Nature's Legacy: Origins of the Idea of Biological Diversity. Reviewer and environmental consultant G. Tracy Mehan III, a member of the Board of Directors of the Potomac Conservancy and an Adjunct Professor at George Mason University School of Law, cited the Crowell & Moring partner for his thoughts on the blurring of science, policy, and politics as a contributing factor to the controversy surrounding the Endangered Species Act.
Endangered Species Act Faces Broad New Challenges
June 22, 2005 — New York Times
Steven Quarles, chair of the Natural Resources and Environmental Group, was cited for his insights on the Endangered Species Act.