Todd D. Kantorczyk

Biography:

Todd Kantorczyk has extensive experience advising clients on issues related to regulatory compliance, litigation, and other matters in the areas of air, climate change, and energy. He has represented industrial and commercial concerns, ranging from Fortune 100 corporations to closely held entities, in complex matters including the following:

• compliance and permitting issues for a major petroleum refinery that implicate New Source Review, New Source Performance Standards, and National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants;
• defense and resolution of federal and state air quality enforcement actions and negotiation of consent decrees and administrative consent orders covering complex industrial operations and appropriate supplemental environmental projects;
• comments on and negotiations concerning proposed heater and boiler air quality regulations, including participation in stakeholder meetings and administrative hearings;
• compliance, policy, and funding issues with respect to potential regulation of greenhouse gases and alternative energy production at the federal, state, and local level;
• appeals of construction permits before the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board for municipal waste concerns;
• negotiations with state regulatory authorities with respect to air permit language and conditions, including construction permits and Title V operating permits; and
• preparation of periodic reports, including Title V semi-annual deviation reports and annual compliance certifications.

Todd has also lectured and written on issues of climate change and alternative energy for The Legal Intelligencer, the Pennsylvania Bar Institute's Environmental Law Forum, the Philadelphia Lawyer, and other publications and organizations. In December 2007, he was named a "Rising Star" in Philadelphia Magazine and Pennsylvania Super Lawyers.

Before joining Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox LLP, Todd was an attorney in the Environment and Natural Resource Practice Group at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, in Washington, D.C. In law school, Todd was comments editor of the UCLA Law Review.

Todd serves as a volunteer coach for the Devon Stratford Little League and is an alumni class officer for the Cornell University Class of 1992.

Education:

• UCLA School of Law, J.D., 1995
• Cornell University, B.A. (government), 1992

Memberships:

• Bar admissions in Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, New York
• American Bar Association, Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources