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David
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Buente, Jr.
Partner
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DAVID T. BUENTE, JR. is the head of the firm’s environmental group and represents clients in complex environmental litigation, legislative and rulemaking matters, with an emphasis on Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Superfund, environmental criminal and toxic tort matters. Mr. Buente joined the firm in 1990 from the U.S. Department of Justice where he was the Chief of the Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural Resources Division from 1985 to 1990, directing all federal civil and criminal environmental enforcement litigation. Prior to that, he handled a broad range of federal environmental trial and appellate litigation for EPA and other federal agencies as a Justice Department trial attorney and also served with the Interior Department and the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office.
Mr. Buente has represented a number of corporations in complex federal environmental enforcement matters with Justice and EPA, including American Electric Power, Cinergy, Duke Energy, Exxon Mobil, General Electric, Georgia Pacific, Ford Motors, Honeywell, Norfolk Southern and Tyson Foods. He has advised a number of trade associations on diverse legislative and regulatory environmental issues and represented trade associations and companies in federal/state trials and appellate matters. He is a member of the American Bar Association’s Sections on Environment, Energy and Resources and on Litigation and has served as Vice-Chair on numerous ABA Committees.
Mr. Buente has been cited in a number of surveys of private sector lawyers, including: Chambers USA Leading Lawyers (ranked tier one), and Who’s Who Legal USA: Environment. Recently he was elected to the American College of Environmental Lawyers.
- American Bar Association, Sections on Environment, Energy and Resources and Litigation
- Vice-Chair, American Bar Association, Environmental Litigation Committee
- Defense Research Institute, Ethics and Climate Change Committees
- American College of Environmental Lawyers
