Acknowledgments

• Author: Nicholas C. Yost
• Pages: 7-7

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About the Author

Nicholas C. Yost is a Partner at Dentons US LLP in San Francisco, California,

from which he directs the rm’s practice of environmental and natural resources

law with a focus on the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). His prac-

tice includes counseling clients on environmental leadership and compliance with

state and federal environmental laws, obtaining permits and authorizations, litiga-

tion, and representing clients before federal and state agencies on environmental

matters. Mr. Yost was General Counsel of the Counsel on Environmental Quality

from 1977 until 1981, where he had lead responsibility for the development and

drafting of NEPA’s implementing regulations. He has also served in the California

Department of Justice, forming and heading the Environmental Section, as a pri-

vate interest lawyer, as a visiting scholar at the Environmental Law Institute, and as a private practitioner in

Washington, D.C. Mr. Yost holds an L.L.B. from the School of Law, University of California at Berkeley

(Boalt Hall), and an A.B. from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International

Aairs. He has chaired the Standing Committee on Environmental Law of the American Bar Association

and the Committee on the Environment of the California State Bar, and has also co-chaired the Environ-

ment, Energy, and Natural Resources Section of the District of Columbia Bar. In 2010, he received the

ABA’s Award for Distinguished Achievement in Environmental Law and Policy.

Acknowledgments

e author wishes to acknowledge the contributions of James W. Rubin and Sarah Ratclie Choi, both

with Dentons, and Kathleen Boergers, to earlier versions of this Deskbook, and that of Jessica Duggan,

who assisted with the current appendices.