Parthenia B. Evans

Parthy’s practice spans the areas of environment, energy, natural resources and agriculture. She has a wide variety of experience in environmental regulatory and administrative matters, pre-litigation settlements, internal investigations, corporate and property transactions and water rights. She has handled complex permitting and enforcement defense matters under the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act in many states and EPA regions, has settled numerous environmental enforcement matters under the water, air, and hazardous waste laws, and has created provisions for successfully quantifying and managing environmental risk and liabilities in corporate and property transactions. Her practice includes defense of environmental criminal allegations and investigations. She has represented surface water and groundwater rights holders in appropriation as well as riparian states. Parthy's practice includes representing electric generating utilities, agribusiness, mining, pipeline, and manufacturing clients.

Her work includes assisting clients in creating and responding to federal state legislation and writing comments and challenges to federal and state rulemakings. Her background in biology and ecology enhances her law practice.

Representative Experience

Parthy’s work has been with electric generating utilities, agribusiness, manufacturing companies, oil and mining companies, municipalities and trade groups. Clients include Parthy on their teams as a strategist and counselor for environmental law matters. Her experience and the expertise she brings to bear in "bet-the-company" matters causes clients to include her on their core teams. She has worked with several clients that have facilities in multiple states and is experienced in helping clients achieve consistency in the manner in which they are regulated from state-to-state by federal and state environmental regulatory agencies.  

Specific experience includes:

Electric Generating Utilities

• Defense of Clean Air Act New Source Review/Prevention of Significant Deterioration enforcement actions
• Environmental counsel for public utilities having multiple electric steam generating plants
• Due diligence counsel for wholesale coal-fired plant development
• Environmental and siting counsel for new coal-fired construction by public and private utilities
• Clean Water Act counsel for three major utilities
• Water rights counsel for privately-held utility

Agribusiness

• Environmental counsel for a top five beef processor having plants in multiple states
• Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act enforcement defense for production processing facilities
• Water rights and supply counsel for three major slaughterhouses
• Author of Environmental Management System for beef processor with facilities in four states

Energy and Natural Resources Development and Manufacturing

• Water rights and wastewater discharge counsel for major oil refinery and fertilizer facility
• Clean Water Act counsel for ethanol facility
• Environmental counsel for manufacturer having multiple facilities including Mexican operation
• Clean Water Act counsel for mining company
• Environmental counsel for pipeline company

Waste and waste water counsel for fertilizer company

Trade and Quasi-Governmental Groups

• Water rights counsel for major groundwater management district
• Clean Water Act counsel for a Midwestern livestock association

Municipal

• Clean Water Act counsel for municipalities of varying size in several states
• Counsel in SSO and CSO enforcement defense
• Counsel for pretreatment program development and implementation

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Professional Affiliations

Recognitions

• Included in the Best Lawyers in America, Who’s Who Legal: USA, and in Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers Magazine.
• Named one of the Kansas City Business Journal’s 2008 Women Who Mean Business.
• Consistently recognized in the 2009-2011 editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business for environment. The 2011 edition stated her to be "a serious contender in this field".