Bill Bumpers is an environmental partner in the Washington, D.C., office and heads the firm’s global Climate Change Practice. Mr. Bumpers focuses on the Clean Air Act and climate change issues. He has an active environmental regulatory, litigation and transactional practice, representing electric generating companies, petroleum refineries, investment companies, electric generators and pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturers. He is regarded as a national authority on new source review issues affecting the electric generation and petroleum refinery industries. He previously served on the EPA’s New Source Review Reform Subcommittee of the Clean Air Act Advisory Committee. He has written and spoken extensively on new source review and prevention of significant deterioration issues under the Clean Air Act.

Mr. Bumpers also is a leading authority on climate change issues, including carbon trading mechanisms in the United States and internationally pursuant to the Kyoto Protocol. He has been involved with climate change issues since his work on energy policy and climate change as a graduate student in 1977. He represents companies involved with emission reduction projects in the United States pursuant to Climate Action Registry and American Carbon Registry protocols, as well as related CRT and emission reduction credit transactions. He has been involved in transactions involving Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects or Certified Emission Reduction (CER) sales in Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Liberia and Equatorial Guinea. He also represents companies involved in the capture and storage of GHG emissions and has helped pioneer the creation and sale of carbon storage rights in the United States. Mr. Bumpers also represents a wide range of companies on developing policy and regulatory issues in the United States and regarding the creation and sale of GHG legislative and regulatory policies in the United States.