Practice Emphasis

John Everett has over twenty years of broad environmental compliance, engineering, and management experience.    In addition to being a licensed attorney, he is also a registered professional engineer.  His legal and professional consulting practice focuses on environmental and natural resources law, compliance, and administrative law.  Currently, Mr. Everett also serves as Special Master for the Federal District Court in the Northern District of Oklahoma to implement the settlement agreement in a major watershed environmental case.

Clients & Matters

Mr. Everett’s professional work began in natural and environmental sciences for an oil and gas production company.  He worked for five years as a regulatory compliance and permitting officer for an environmental agency.  He has extensive permitting and regulatory compliance experience and expertise with federal statutes and state equivalents under RCRA, CERCLA, CAA, CWA, SDWA, and OSHA.  He also has extensive experience negotiating, planning, and implementing investigations and corrective actions as required by agencies such as the EPA, DOT, FERC, NRC, OSHA, and numerous state agencies and corporation commissions.  His practice also includes engineering related law, environmental management systems, natural resources litigation, right-of-way acquisition, environmental investigation, indemnification agreements related to mergers and acquisitions, oil and gas, and commercial development, property law, and health and safety audits. 

Representative matters have included oil and gas production, refineries, Fortune 500 manufacturers, chemical blending facilities, aerospace and aviation production and operations, state agencies, municipal authorities, and private entities.  He is also a former Peace Corps Volunteer working on international environmental assessments, and consults on international environmental and engineering projects.

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