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Carrick focuses his practice on environmental litigation and counseling. His experience includes representation in federal and state court and before regulatory agencies on property contamination cases, cost-recovery matters, and enforcement actions. His current representation includes defense of government enforcement actions for ground water and surface water contamination. Before entering private practice, Carrick served for twelve years in the Environmental Enforcement Section of the US Department of Justice, as a trial attorney and a supervising attorney, litigating civil enforcement matters under all the major environmental statutes. He has practiced in state court in Texas and in federal district courts in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Jersey. His experience includes matters involving petrochemical plants, refineries, swine facilities, poultry processing plants, creosoting plants, pipelines, lead smelters, cement kilns, manufactured wood product plants, and aluminum plants. His environmental career includes experience as an environmental consultant, specializing in air quality issues.
ARTICLES / PUBLICATIONS
"Environmental Case Law Update Anything Goes" Environmental Law Superconference (August 01, 2002)
"The Care and Feeding of Attorneys: An Environmental Engineer's Guide to Working with Lawyers" Environmental Engineer (October 01, 2001)
BRIEFINGS, SEMINARS & SPEECHES
Speaker
"Environmental Case Law Update," Dallas Bar Association Environmental Law Section (February 27, 2003)
"Environmental Case Law Update," Houston Bar Association Environmental Section (December 11, 2002)
"Environmental Case Law Update," Fourteenth Annual Texas Environmental Superconference (August 2002)
"Current Issues in EPA Regulation of CAFOs," Dallas Bar Association Environmental Law Section (May 23, 2002)
"Indoor Air Quality in Texas: The Legal Framework," Texas Association of Environmental Professionals / Air and Waste Management Association Joint Meeting (December 12, 2000)
"Legal Aspects of Indoor Air and Insurance Issue," Mold and Indoor Air Quality: A Conference on Health,
Technical and Legal Issues (October 10, 2000)
"Indoor Air Quality: Texas Legal Framework," Twelfth Annual Texas Environmental Superconference (August 3, 2000)
"Expert Witness Examination," Ninth Annual Texas Environmental Superconference (July 31, 1997)
"Environmental Compliance Disputes: Alternatives to Litigation," International Petroleum Environmental Conference (September 1996)
"Status and Feedback on the Auditing Privilege," Key Environmental Issues in USEPA Region 6, ABA Natural Resources Section (May 1996)
"Litigating a CERCLA Case with Federal PRPs," Multi-Site Brown Bag Program, ABA Natural Resources Section (December 1995)
"Litigating a Civil Environmental Enforcement Case Motions, Liability, Experts, and Trials," Office of Legal Education Civil Environmental Enforcement Seminar, United States Department of Justice (September 1994)
PROFESSIONAL / CIVIC AFFILIATIONS
Member
Houston Bar Association
Travis County Bar Association
State Bar of Texas
American Bar Association
Federal Bar Association
Environmental Law Institute
Air and Waste Management Association | 