Rose Quam-Wickham

ROSE QUAM-WICKHAM focuses on environmental and safety related investigations, regulatory compliance and counseling, and environmental litigation. Rose has a particular emphasis on defending clients in the energy, refining, pharmaceutical, and automotive sectors against enforcement actions brought by the U.S. Department of Justice (U.S. DOJ), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), the California Air Resources Board, and other environmental and safety regulators.

Rose has advised clients on a wide variety of challenges related to civil and criminal liability under the Clean Air Act (CAA) — including Title I (stationary sources) and Title II (mobile sources) — the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). As part of her practice, Rose regularly assists chemical manufacturing and refining clients navigate CAA Risk Management Program (RMP) and U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration Process Safety Management audits. She further advises automative clients in complying with recall and safety-related obligations under motor vehicle safety laws and regulations administered by the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA).

Rose received her J.D. from the George Washington University Law School and her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Prior to joining the firm, Rose was an associate at another national law firm where she advised clients on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and environmental matters.

Rose’s representative matters include:

• Defending multiple refining clients against CAA RMP and OSHA PSM audits and enforcement actions, including following incidents at the relevant facilities.
• Defending an oil and gas client in a federal criminal investigation relating to alleged releases from an oil pipeline.
• Defending an automotive manufacturer in vehicle emissions enforcement actions by U.S. DOJ, U.S. EPA, and the California Air Resources Board alleging violations of Title II of the CAA and the California Health and Safety Code.
• Advising multiple chemical manufacturing and pharmaceutical clients in connection with environmental contamination and remediation at Superfund sites.
• Counseling a pharmaceutical distribution client in regards to its responsibilities related to the storage, transport, and disposal of hazardous waste under RCRA.
• Advising an automotive supplier of their obligations relating to recalls and related inquires from NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation.
• Assisting a large automotive manufacturing client to determine its responsibilities related to reporting under NHTSA’s Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards.
• Representing clients in the aerospace and chemical manufacturing industries against a series of citizen suits under RCRA, CERCLA, and the CWA.
• Representing a multinational corporation in connection with cross-border environmental and trade-related investigations.
• Representing a client in litigation challenging rulemakings related to the management of marine fisheries.

Some of the above matters were handled prior to joining Sidley.