Biography: Environment

Angus Macbeth has more than 40 years experience in the practice of environmental law. Between 1977 and 1981, he served as chief of the pollution control section and as deputy assistant attorney general in the land and natural resources division of the Department of Justice, where he was responsible for EPA's enforcement and defensive litigation, acquiring experience with all aspects of EPA's administration of the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and other statutes.

In recent years, his practice has emphasised complex matters such as contaminated sediments cases under the remedial and natural resource damage provisions of Superfund; the impact on aquatic biota of power plant operation; and the shaping and direction of corporate environmental management and safety programmes. He has had extensive experience with multi-facility enforcement cases under the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts and has dealt repeatedly with state-federal issues under RCRA and the hazardous waste management statutes. Mr Macbeth has briefed and argued major issues in both federal district and appellate courts, including numerous challenges to agency rules in the Courts of Appeals, and has negotiated numerous settlements with federal and state regulators.

Mr Macbeth graduated from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, in 1969. He clerked for Judge Harold R Tyler, Jr in the Southern District of New York and was an assistant US attorney in the Criminal Division of the Southern District of New York. Mr Macbeth has written and spoken extensively on topics in environmental law. He has been recognised as a Senior Statesman by Chambers USA and as a Most Highly Regarded Individual by Who's Who Legal. He is a member of the American, New York State and DC bars, serves on the board of directors for the Environmental Law Institute, and is a member of the American College of Environmental Lawyers. He is admitted in the District of Columbia and New York.