Sophie Gray keeps clients in line with environmental regulations as they evolve to avoid the operational delays that come with compliance issues. She helps manufacturers, energy providers and private companies find better ways to move their businesses forward in heavily regulated landscapes.
Sophie navigates changing regulations at both the state and federal level, helping clients understand both sets of complex rules. She advises large and small businesses across the country, many with operations in multiple states. Her counsel allows companies to streamline their operations and pioneer new technologies while keeping up with the latest regulations.
Experience
- Supported prominent technology company’s $10 billion data center build in Louisiana by completing environmental diligence and coordinating with state and local authorities and utilities.
- Advanced leading energy provider’s $750 million generation plant to provide electricity to rural Louisiana, completing environmental diligence, obtaining Title V minor modification and resolving air permitting and regulatory issues.
- Helped to secure $250 million financing to develop major solar facility in Louisiana. Conducted environmental diligence, assessed local and federal permitting issues and helped to draft lender opinion letter in support of the development.
- Guided gas storage operator through environmental issues after a Class III well mechanical integrity failure, including plugging and abandonment of the well, approval for alternative post-closure monitoring plan, and advice on rights against former operators.
- Helped pipeline operator remove and relocate underwater pipelines in line with Water Rights Development Act for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project development.
- Performed multimedia assessment and remediation work at brownfield sites across the country, including in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Ohio, Kansas, Texas, North Carolina, California, Indiana, Wyoming, Maryland, Montana and Kentucky.