Areas of Practice:

Environmental
Land Use
Litigation
Municipal

Education:

Harvard Law School, 2008 J.D.
Senior Editor,
Harvard Environmental Law Review

University of Vermont School of Natural Resources, 1997 M.S.

Yale University, 1990 B.A.

Bar Admissions:

Massachusetts
U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First Circuit
U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Rebekah Lacey

Email: rlacey@andersonkreiger.com
Phone: 617-621-6523
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Rebekah Lacey, Associate

Rebekah represents public and private sector clients on a wide range of local, state and federal environmental and land use law issues, with a specialty in water resources. She advises clients on environmental regulatory matters, represents clients in permit appeals, enforcement proceedings, and litigation, and drafts comments on proposed federal and state permits and regulations.

Before attending law school, Rebekah worked for almost a decade as an environmental scientist in both the public and private sectors, after receiving an M.S. in Water Resources from the University of Vermont. For a number of years, she performed human health and ecological risk assessments for hazardous waste sites, particularly aquatic sites with contaminated sediments. She subsequently moved to the policy arena as an environmental analyst at the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission, where she worked with federal and state water quality staff throughout New England and New York on NPDES, stormwater, and wetlands issues. Rebekah’s scientific expertise allows her to work closely with technical consultants to develop powerful legal analyses and arguments firmly grounded in science.

Rebekah's representative experience includes:

   
• Defending municipalities (and obtaining favorable settlements) in EPA Clean Water Act enforcement actions;   
• Working with municipalities and consultants to draft comments on NPDES wastewater discharge permits;   
• Working with municipalities to draft or revise sewer and stormwater bylaws/ordinances and regulations;   
• As part of a legal and technical team, preparing comments on a major proposed federal effluent regulation for a public authority client;   
• Representing municipalities, private sector clients and nonprofit groups in Wetlands Protection Act permitting and enforcement matters, including DEP administrative proceedings and state court litigation;   
• Representing a municipality in an appeal of a Water Management Act permit;   
• Representing homeowners and businesses in G.L. c. 21E matters;   
• Advising a major utility on permitting and compliance issues regarding the Clean Water Act, EPCRA, CERCLA, and state and local environmental laws and regulations; and    
• Providing pro bono legal support to the nonprofit group Oceana in litigation challenging offshore oil leases in the vicinity of the Belize barrier reef.