David P. Novello is an environmental lawyer and mediator with his own practice in Washington, D.C. He represents corporate and trade association clients on environmental issues, with a particular focus on air quality matters. Until 1992 Mr. Novello was a senior attorney with the U.S. EPA Office of General Counsel, where he worked on a variety of Clean Air Act, hazardous waste, and international environmental issues. From 1992 until 2001 he practiced environmental law with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Freedman, Levy, Kroll & Simonds. He was a partner at the firm from 1995 until 2001, when he left to start Law Offices of David Novello, LLC.

Mr. Novello's practice focuses primarily on regulatory and compliance counseling. He has also litigated a number of cases, most frequently in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. For many years he has been active in the American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, where he has served in leadership positions on the air quality committee, the climate change and sustainable development committee, and the alternative dispute resolution committee. He also was a member of the editorial board of the Section's newsletter, Trends.

Mr. Novello has taught courses on the Clean Air Act at Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Maryland School of Law. He has written many publications on environmental matters (including two guides for the Air & Waste Management Association), and is co-editor of both editions of the American Bar Association's Clean Air Act Handbook. He also has served on the Montgomery County, Maryland Energy and Air Quality Advisory Committee. Mr. Novello graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1979 and received his J.D. in 1984 from Columbia Law School, where he was a Stone Scholar.