Steven Burns Leads Panel at National Waterways Conference Legislative Summit

Steven Burns, partner in the firm’s Birmingham office and member of the Environmental & Natural Resources Practice, moderated a panel at the National Waterways Conference (NWC) Legislative Summit in Washington, D.C., focused on key developments shaping water resources policy.

Steven moderated the panel, titled “What’s Moving on Capitol Hill: ESA, Permitting, and Related Issues,” explored recent action taken on the Endangered Species Act (ESA), federal permitting, and other natural resource issues that can have a major ripple effect for water resources projects and policy. The session included insight from senior staff from the House Natural Resources Committee, including what to monitor in the months ahead.

Steven serves as Counsel and Secretary to the National Waterways Conference, a trade association focused on federal waterway projects, as well as Chair of the association’s Legislative Policy Committee. He also is a three-time past Chair of the Alabama Chapter of the Air & Waste Management Association. 

In his practice, Steven advises private utilities, electric cooperatives, public power, and other businesses on coal ash, waste and contamination, waterways, environmental justice, air and water quality, wetlands, protected species, and natural resources. He has counseled clients under all the major statutes including the Clean Water Act (CWA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Superfund program (CERCLA), and the Clean Air Act (CAA).