Law Offices of David Novello, LLC is a Washington, D.C.-based law firm that focuses on environmental law and regulation. The firm's particular expertise is in air quality matters and the emerging climate change area. The firm works on environmental governance and capacity building in other countries.  We also assist clients in compliance counseling, regulatory development, permitting, appellate litigation, environmental enforcement, and other aspects of environmental law. Clients include government agencies, environmental groups, large and small corporations and trade associations.

The firm handles a wide variety of air quality matters, including title V operating permits, new source review (NSR) and prevention of significant deterioration (PSD) construction permits, hazardous air pollutant regulation, state implementation plan (SIP) rules, new source performance standards (NSPS), monitoring and testing, emissions trading, and mobile source regulation. The firm also handles RCRA hazardous waste issues, Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) reporting, and Clean Water Act matters.

We have worked for the Natural Resources Defense Council's China office on China's revision of its air pollution laws. Representative corporate clients have included several of the largest multinational cement and tire manufacturers, a coalition of electric utilities, a group of the nation's largest trucking companies, chemical manufacturers of various sizes, one of the largest multinational forest products companies, an aerospace company, an environmental consulting firm, John Deere, and Southwest Airlines. The firm also drafted a model rule for state and local air quality regulators; this air quality rule was a finalist for the Innovations in American Government Award given by the Harvard Institute on Government Innovation.

We aim to provide the highest quality services to all our clients, by listening to their needs and working intelligently and quickly to help bring about successful results.