- Yale School the Environment, M.F.S., 1976
- Boston College Law School, J.D., 1983
- Wellesley College, B.A., 1974
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Bar Admissions
- Arizona (inactive) ; 1984
- Connecticut
- 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
- Listed in the 2022 Chambers USA Guide, in the area of Environmental Law
- 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.)
- 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
- 33 Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP Attorneys Selected to the 2020 Super Lawyers®, Rising Stars in Connecticut Lists
- 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
Alerts
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
- Member, Subcommittee 2, “Reporting of Newly-Discovered Historical Releases”, established by the Connecticut Legislative Working Group on Creation of Release-Based Remedial System, created pursuant to PA 20-9
- Yale School of the Environment Alumni Association Board
- Yale Blue Green inaugural Board of Directors
- Connecticut Business & Industry Association, Energy & Environmental Council, Steering Committee (2009-2016)
Community
- Youth Continuum, Co-Chair of the Governance Committee (2014-2018
- Newtown Inland Wetlands Commission (2005-2015, Chair 2007-2014)
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