Lisa M. Jaeger

Prior to joining the EPA, Ms. Jaeger was an associate attorney at Bracewell & Giuliani LLP, focusing on environmental matters, including air, water and waste issues. She has also served as legislative assistant to Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), advising the senator on environment and natural resources, appropriations, regulatory reform and judicial issues. Ms. Jaeger also served in the first Bush administration in the White House as associate director of the office of cabinet affairs. Ms. Jaeger teaches constitutional law at Johns Hopkins University. She has also taught environmental law, legal research and writing, interviewing, counseling, and negotiation at Catholic University's Columbus School of Law. While in law school, she served on the editorial board of the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law.

Representative Matters

Represent specialty trade association in climate change litigation, through amicus briefs opposing liability for climate change imposed through judicial challenges.

Represent industrial energy users on revisions to Clean Air Act regulations of the U.S. EPA.

Represent a coal waste-fired independent power producer in a challenge to recent Clean Air Act regulations and an attempt to achieve necessary changes to the rule to preserve investments in energy recovery technology.

Represent textile industry members on a pending rulemaking regarding waste disposal with potential Clean Water Act implications.

Successfully represented industrial energy users in a challenge to Clean Air Act regulations that penalized energy efficiency measures by improperly categorizing the industrial facilities.

Publications and Speeches

"Fifth Circuit Decision Threatens a Tsunami of Climate Change Tort Cases While the Defense Bar Awaits a Circuit Split," Environmental Law Update, October 22, 2009.

"Environmental Federalism and U.S. Climate Change Policy," French Center on the United States, April 2004.