Kathryn M. Casey

Kathryn M. Casey has extensive administrative and litigation experience involving CEQA, NEPA, air quality and water-related issues, and in obtaining approvals for development projects.

Ms. Casey has represented clients before city councils, county boards of supervisors, planning commissions, hearing boards and other local agencies in defending air quality and permit violation notices, complying with habitat conservation plans, and obtaining variances, conditional use and grading permits, and other development approvals and entitlements. 

Ms. Casey has also counseled clients regarding environmental mitigation and regulatory compliance, and has represented clients in the state and federal courts, courts of appeal, and before the office of administrative hearings in litigation matters related to CEQA, NEPA, the Clean Air Act, Political Reform Act, Outdoor Advertising Act, and other environmental, real estate and municipal law issues.

Ms. Casey currently represents a successful party in the state Quantification Settlement Agreement litigation, which involves transfers of Colorado River water and environmental impacts at the Salton Sea.  She also represents the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power with respect to air quality mitigation at Owens Lake.