Firm Profile
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 the Clean Air Act and the emerging climate change area. We assist business clients in compliance counseling, regulatory development, permitting, appellate litigation, environmental enforcement, and other aspects of environmental law. Clients include 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.
Trade association clients of the firm include the Asphalt Roofing and Manufacturers Association, the Cement Kiln Recycling Coalition, the Portland Cement Association, and the Rubber Manufacturers Association. Representative corporate clients include 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, Deere & Company, Johns Manville Corporation, and Southwest Airlines. The firm also drafted a model rule for state and local air quality regulators; this 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.