Tanya Nesbitt, Esq. specializes in helping businesses in heavily regulated industries such as energy, refining, chemicals, forestry and mining. She helps her clients navigate regulatory chaos and take back control. She works on her clients’ issues as if they are her own while managing the process and helping them to solve issues quickly and avoid shutdowns.
Tanya has an unprecedented track record as a nationally recognized formidable litigator who has litigated highly complex environmental matters. Her successes have earned her the distinction of Lawdragon 500’s Leading U.S. Environmental Lawyer. She collaborates with all her clients to find the best business solutions, whether it involves providing detailed strategic advice and tactics, counsel on the advertising and marketing of environmental benefit claims, or fighting for her clients in litigation.
Tanya has represented small to sophisticated businesses in environmental permitting, natural resource and land management and wildlife management in relation to federal public lands. Her experience includes working with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Natural Resources Division, the Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service in Greater Sage-Grouse litigation as well as working as an Assistant United States Attorney for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C.
The Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) and sustainability movements have placed increased attention on corporate environmental benefit claims and disclosure statements. In response, new regulation and litigation have emerged per...