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Sky Stanfield, Associate
Sky Stanfield is an associate in Farella Braun + Martel's Environmental Law Department and is a member of the Land Use, Air Quality and Climate Change, and Regulatory/Compliance groups.
Ms. Stanfield's environmental practice focuses on assisting clients with regulatory compliance matters, including permitting, responding to enforcement actions, and developing strategies for maintaining ongoing compliance. Her effectiveness is bolstered by litigation skills developed while clerking and working on environmental cases in state and federal court. Ms. Stanfield can take a project from conception to implementation and defend it in litigation if necessary.
Ms. Stanfield has extensive experience with environmental review statutes such as CEQA and NEPA. She guides projects through the many stages of the process and has experience defending challenges to the environmental review prepared for residential, commercial and industrial projects. She has particular experience with the analysis of greenhouse gas emissions in CEQA documents. She has assisted with these analyses in various types of projects and has detailed knowledge of the new regulatory guidance at the state and local level. Ms. Stanfield also assists clients in analyzing the potential climate change-related impacts, and benefits, of projects undergoing environmental review and consults with clients trying to determine how to treat the impacts of climate change regulations in contracts for future projects. She advises clients on how to report their carbon emissions through both voluntary and mandatory reporting scheme and stays apprised of new developments in the regulations governing the control of greenhouse gas emissions, including California's AB32 and the use of the Clean Air Act in this area.
Ms. Stanfield's compliance work also includes advising clients on issues arising under the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, and the laws governing the protection of endangered species. Her brownfields and hazardous materials practice includes performance of environmental due diligence work for real property and corporate transactions; conducting potentially responsible parties investigations; and emergency removal actions under CERCLA. She also has comprehensive experience with the reporting requirements under EPCRA and the application of the EPA's penalty policy in this area.
Committed to pro bono work, Ms. Stanfield recently achieved a substantial victory in a case challenging the protection of public lands from off-road vehicle abuse in the Mojave Desert. Representing a coalition of environmental and private property groups, she persuaded a federal judge to overturn a Bureau of Land Management decision designating off-road vehicle routes for violations of FLPMA and NEPA. For this effort Ms. Stanfield received a 2010 California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year (CLAY) award.
Ms. Stanfield clerked for the Honorable Lawrence K. Karlton, Senior Judge, of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California.