Services
Education
- Yale School the Environment, M.F.S., 1976
- Boston College Law School, J.D., 1983
- Wellesley College, B.A., 1974
Admissions
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Bar Admissions
- Arizona (inactive) ; 1984
- Connecticut Court Admissions
- Overview
- Experience
- Distinctions
- News & Media
- Events
- Affiliations
Overview
Anne advises businesses, municipalities, financial institutions and individuals in the environmental aspects of commercial, corporate and real estate transactions. Her clients include a wide range of entities, such as manufacturers, municipalities, petroleum marketers, non-profit social service organizations, schools, dry cleaners and a state bonding agency. She has worked with clients to remediate and redevelop contaminated properties. Anne helps her clients identify and understand the environmental laws that apply to their businesses and bring their operations into compliance with those environmental laws. Anne’s work includes helping her clients identify clean-up and compliance obligations, quantify the risk associated with those obligations and manage that risk. She works closely with her clients and their consultants to seek creative, cost effective solutions to environmental problems.
Anne’s education in biology, geology and chemistry together with her work in the Geology Department at Brown University before law school have not only helped her understand and apply environmental laws and regulations but also help her speak the same language as consultants and engineers.
Experience
- Counseled clients on environmental aspects of the sale of petroleum companies, a waste-to- energy plant, former electrical substation, manufacturing plants, health care facilities and other commercial and industrial sites
- Assisted a client in the successful defense of a DEEP enforcement action in which the agency had sought more than $4.5 million in penalties
- Negotiated agreements among a municipality, water companies, developers and property owners to extend public water systems into areas of contaminated groundwater
- Represented a municipality in an appeal of a DEEP “community pollution” order to replace failed subsurface sewage treatment systems
- Guided a non-profit social service organization through the remediation, financing and redevelopment of an abandoned city block to create a child care facility
- Represented the owners of a small community water system in the transfer of the system to a regional water company
Distinctions
- Selected “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers® in New Haven, Connecticut for Environmental Law, 2021
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America®, in the area of Environmental Law, 2018-2021
- Listed in Connecticut Super Lawyers® and New England Super Lawyers® in the area of Environmental Law for 2017 – 2020 (Super Lawyers® is a registered trademark of Key Professional Media, Inc.)
- Listed in the 2018 Chambers USA Guide, in the area of Environmental Law
- Rated “AV Preeminent” by Martindale-Hubbell © Peer Review Ratings
- Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection Comprehensive Evaluation and Transformation of Connecticut’s Clean-up Laws, Workgroup Co-Chair, Evaluation of Pollution Responsibility and Liability Relief Provisions
- The Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review
News
- 29 Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP Attorneys Selected for Best Lawyers®
- Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP Attorneys and Practice Groups Receive Honors from Chambers USA
- 41 Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP Attorneys Selected to the 2019 Super Lawyers®, Rising Stars in Connecticut Lists
- 15 Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP Attorneys Selected for Best Lawyers®
- 33 Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP Attorneys Selected to the 2018 New England Super Lawyers® and Rising Stars Lists
- 41 Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP Attorneys Selected to the 2018 Super Lawyers®, Rising Stars in Connecticut Lists
- 34 Attorneys Selected to the 2016 Connecticut Super Lawyers® and Rising Stars List
- Anne Peters moderated a Panel Discussion at the CBIA Energy and Environmental Conference
- CBA Connecticut Legal Conference 2016
Alerts
- Environmental Law Alert: DEEP Issues Notice of Intent to Reissue Without Modification Two of its Wastewater General Permits
- Environmental Law Alert: Connecticut is Closer to Having Spill Reporting Regulations
- Environmental Law Alert: “Who Knew That Was Regulated?”
- Environmental Law Alert: Significant Environmental Hazard Law
- Mandatory Financial Assurance for Underground Storage Tanks
- Environmental Law Alert: New UST Requirements Become Effective August 8, 2012
- Environmental Law Alert: Mandatory UST Operator Training Requirement
- Environmental Law Alert: New CTDEP UST Notification Forms
Publications
Events
- CBA Environmental Section’s 2nd Annual “Evening of Connecticut Environmental Leadership”
- CBIA 2018 Energy & Environment Conference
- Moderator, Climate Change Beyond Politics: Underwriting and Disclosure of Risks and Impacts', The Connecticut Legal Conference and Annual CBA Meeting June 12, 2017
- Moderator, Cleanup Transformation: Where We Are & Where We're Heading
- Moderator, DEEP & EPA Enforcement, Priorities, Trends, & Emerging Issues, CBIA 2016 Energy & Environment Conference, June 16, 2016
- Moderator, Environmental Land Use Restrictions 101, Connecticut Legal Conference, June 13, 2016
- Moderator, The Intersection of Environmental Justice with New and Existing Industries
- Panelist, Connecticut's Cleanup Transformation, Cleanup Standards, and the UST Fund
- Panelist, Decontaminating the Deal: A Transactional Lawyer' s Guide to Buying, Selling and Financing Contaminated Property
- Panelist, Environmental Land Use Restrictions - Advanced Case Studies, 2015
- Panelist, Environmental Land Use Restrictions; Advanced Case Studies, 2014
- Panelist, Legislative & Regulatory Landscape for 2015: Spills, Clean-up & Historic Reporting
- Recent Changes to UST Laws: Operating Requirements and Financial Assurance
- Underground Storage Tanks - New Regulation Requirements & Fund Elimination
Affiliations
- Yale School of the Environment Alumni Association Board
- Yale Blue Green inaugural Board of Directors
- American Bar Association’s Section of Environment, Energy and Resources Law
- Connecticut Bar Association, Nominating Committee (2019-2020)
- Connecticut Bar Association, Past Chair of the Environmental Section
- Connecticut Bar Association, Planning & Zoning Section
- Connecticut Bar Association, Legislative Policy and Review Committee (2014-2019)
- New Haven County Bar Association
- Waterbury Bar Association
- Connecticut Business & Industry Association, Energy & Environmental Council, Steering Committee (2009-2016)
- Environmental Professionals’ Organization of Connecticut
- Connecticut Society for Women Environmental Professionals
Community
- Youth Continuum, Co-Chair of the Governance Committee (2014-2018
- Newtown Inland Wetlands Commission (2005-2015, Chair 2007-2014)
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