Maureen Harbourt is a partner in the Baton Rouge office of Kean Miller. She joined the firm in 1983 and has 25 years of experience in Louisiana environmental regulation and litigation. Maureen represents local, national and international industrial and commercial clients in a wide variety of substantive environmental areas such as Title V and PSD air permitting, climate change issues,  hazardous waste and remediation issues, RECAP, underground gas storage, water and wetland issues, stratospheric ozone regulation, underground injection wells and gas storage projects, environmental compliance and audits, assistance in mergers acquisitions and reorganizations, defense of state and federal enforcement actions, criminal enforcement issues, and regulatory and legislative development.

Maureen works with the Louisiana Chemical Association and other industrial and commercial clients with regard to rulemaking and litigation on air issues, ozone attainment issues, hazardous waste, agency and administrative proceedings, compliance counselling, permitting, and remediation. Maureen has particular experience in creating in-plant environmental training programs. She also has extensive experience representing purchasers and sellers of industrial concerns and joint ventures with regard to environmental due diligence issues.

She is listed in The Best Lawyers in America (Environmental Law; 2009).

Representative Experience

• Counsel to a national chemical company on environmental issues with regard to a multi-million dollar acquisition of a Lake Charles facility.
• Successful defense of a major international petrochemical company in litigation upholding new source air permits for plant expansion.
• Counsel to major energy company in a $590 million acquisition of a Louisiana refinery.
• Counsel to several energy and cogeneration clients in obtaining PSD, acid rain, and Title V permits for new power units.
• Successful reclassification of hazardous waste stream to a recyclable material for a Louisiana chemical manufacturing company.
• Conducted numerous training workshops on Title V and NSR permitting and deviation reporting.
• Conducted training classes on preparing for criminal environmental investigations for several corporations.

Education

Maureen earned her B.A. from Louisiana State University in 1979. She earned her J.D. from the LSU Law Center in 1982, where she was a staff writer for the Louisiana Law Review.

Admissions

• Admitted to bar, 1983, Louisiana.

Memberships

• Baton Rouge, Louisiana State (Environmental Law Committee) and American (Section on Energy and Environmental Resources) Bar Associations
• Air and Waste Management Association.
• ABA Commission on Women in the Profession.
  

Community Service

• Board Member, Louisiana Resource Center for Educators
  
• United Way, Gottlieb Association
• Volunteers in Public Schools, Glen Oaks Middle School, Chairman of Kean Miller Committee.
• Past Board member, Baton Rouge Green
• Louisiana Nature Conservancy
• Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce, Steering Committee for Economic Development Campaign; Education Issues Council.

Articles, Publications and Presentations

Environmental Notes, December 2004
Environmental Notes, February 2004

Lecturer

• Developments in Climate Change Law in the United States, LSU Law Center Environmental Law Seminar, April 2008.
• "Training Your Responsible Official and Supervisory Personnel-The Reasonable Inquiry Process," Air & Waste Management Association, Louisiana Section, Fall Conference, 2007.
• Title V: Reporting of Permit Deviations, Semiannual Monitoring and Annual Compliance Certifications, Air & Waste Management Association, National Conference, June 2006.
• The Energy Policy Act-LSU Law Center Advanced Environmental and Toxic Tort Issues Conference, 2006.
• Responding to Audit Requests and Other Legal Ethics Issues, LSU Law Center Advanced Environmental and Toxic Tort Issues Conference, May 2002.
• Environmental Assessments and Environmental Justice Issues in the Louisiana Permit Process, Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality Annual Conference, March 2002.
• Ozone Reclassification Issues Affecting Louisiana, Louisiana State Bar Association, Environment Committee Annual Winter Seminar, 2001.
• Title V: Reporting of Permit Deviations, Semiannual Monitoring and Annual Compliance Certifications, Air & Waste Management Association, Louisiana Chapter, Fall 2001 Conference.
• New Source Review Workshop, Air & Waste Management Association, Louisiana Chapter, Spring 2001. (Panelist with representatives from EPA Headquarters, EPA Region VI, Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, and an industry consultant).
• Recent Developments: Management of Contaminated Soil and Groundwater, Air and Waste Management Association, Louisiana Chapter, Fall 2000 Seminar.

Authorships

• Kaplan: Continuing Problems With the Constant Acknowledgment Rule, 41 Louisiana Law Review 746.
• Coauthor: Air Pollution Control (Chapter 6), Louisiana Environmental Handbook, Lawyers Cooperative Publishing.