John Dugdale
Partner
johndugdale@andrewskurth.com
Suite 3700
Dallas TX 75201
P: 214.659.4525
F: 214.659.4769
Download v-cardJohn advises clients on litigation and contested environmental regulatory matters, enforcement under all environmental media before the US Environmental Protection Agency, other federal agencies, and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, emergency response and remedial matters, and environmental issues arising in real estate and securities transactions. Representative industries John counsels on all aspects of environmental compliance are wind and other alternative energy projects, steel mills, brass foundries, petroleum product terminals and pipelines, complex remediation projects (including the Portland OR Harbor Superfund Site), corrective action projects, superfund cost recovery projects, hazardous and solid waste management facilities, brownfields redevelopment, metals recycling, oil and gas exploration and production, small petroleum refineries and electric power generation.
John’s Superfund practice includes work on all aspects of simple and complex Superfund sites, including the negotiation and resolution of natural resource damages claims among state, Federal, and Native American trustees - he currently is engaged in one of the largest wide-area sediment contamination Superfund sites in the country, which is located in the Pacific Northwest.
Before joining Andrews Kurth, between 1986 and 1996 John served as the hazardous waste expert with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters criminal enforcement program and as senior attorney in the Superfund Division of the Dallas Regional Environmental Protection Agency Office, where he continued his involvement with the criminal enforcement program on a part-time basis, and where he was involved extensively in criminal and civil judicial and administrative litigation.
Articles / Publications
- "Who`s In Charge? One Approach to Preparing for a Facility Emergency Response Incident when the FBI Will Be the Lead Agency" Science and Technology Newsletter, ABA Section of Environment, Energy and Resources (August 2002)
- "Brownfields in the Commercial Context: The Federal Perspective" Environmental Law Institute: An Advanced Course Covering Emerging Issues and Trends (February 14, 1997)
Briefings, Seminars & Speeches
Speaker
- "EPA Enforcement Trends for Fiscal Years 1998-1999: EPA Headquarters' and Region 6's Perspective," American Corporate Counsel Association, Houston Chapter, Environmental Section, Houston, Texas (January 14, 1998)
- "Changes at EPA/DOI/DOJ in the First Year of the Bush (Jr.) Administration," 2001 Ecology & Environment Fall Environmental Seminar, Blue Mt. Lake, New York (September 26 and 29, 2001)
Professional / Civic Affiliations
Member
- Dallas Bar Association
- Environmental Law Section, Officer (1997 to 2004)
- Environmental Law Section, Chair (2004)
- Texas Bar Association
- Maryland Bar Association
- EPA Region 6 Brownfields ad hoc advisory group (2002 - present)
- The Nature Conservancy of Texas, North Texas Advisory Board, Dallas
- The Pritchards Island (SC) Advisory Board (1999 - present)
- Board of Trustees, Connemara Conservancy (TX) Foundation (2008 - present)
Headline News
- Andrews & Kurth Represents Conoco and SRW in Project Finance Deal (November 30, 2000)
Industries
Practice Areas
Education
- JD, 1986, University of Maryland School of Law
- BA, 1982, Classics, Johns Hopkins University, Pew Memorial Scholar (1978-1979)
Admitted
- Texas 2000
- Maryland Bar 1987
Languages
- French, reading ability in Italian, Ancient Greek, and Latin
