Jonathan Martel, a partner in Arnold & Porter LLP’s Washington, DC office, concentrates his practice on Clean Air Act matters, environmental litigation and counseling. Mr. Martel’s recent work includes representation of electric utilities, consumer products, automotive, nonroad equipment, and other diversified manufacturers in Clean Air Act regulatory, permitting and enforcement matters, as well as other environmental litigation and regulatory matters. He rejoined Arnold & Porter LLP in 1994 after serving for three years at the Office of General Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). While at the EPA, he was involved primarily in the implementation of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.
Mr. Martel was an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center in 1995 and 1996, where he taught courses on the Clean Air Act and environmental law, and has also lectured at the University of Michigan Law School, Vanderbilt Law School and Villanova Law School. He has contributed the Clean Air Act chapter to the American Bar Association’s 2007 book Global Climate Change and U.S. Law, and a chapter on the fuels provisions of the Clean Air Act for the American Bar Association’s Handbook for the Clean Air Act. He writes and speaks frequently on environmental, climate change and administrative law matters. Mr. Martel is a graduate of Yale Law School, and served as a law clerk for Judge Levin H. Campbell on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.