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Ms. Kales is a Shareholder in Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck’s Natural Resources Group. Based in the firm’s Denver office, she focuses on environmental litigation and compliance, and land use for a variety of clients, including energy companies, residential developers and other real estate developers. Ms. Kales represents clients in both federal and state courts in litigation involving federal and state preemption issues, NEPA challenges, water quality issues, Endangered Species Act issues, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission proceedings, Clean Water Act storm water permitting compliance issues, CERCLA cost recovery actions, federal claims actions against the United States and environmental due diligence matters associated with the acquisition of contaminated property. Ms. Kales has represented a coalition of residential developers in lobbying the U.S. Department of Defense to secure additional funding for cleanup of a former military base. That project also involved work to ensure that the DOD legislation did not impair private parties’ rights to cost recovery under CERCLA. Prior to joining Brownstein, Ms. Kales served as general counsel for the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, a nonprofit organization in Atlanta, where her work focused on Clean Water Act permitting and administrative litigation. Prior to that, Ms. Kales was an associate at Smith, Gambrell and Russell, where she represented and advised clients on a wide range of environmental matters, including water quality laws, hazardous waste laws and regulations, underground storage tank issues and state nuisance, trespass and riparian rights laws. | 