NEPA LESSONS LEARNED

• Jurisdiction: United States

National Environmental Policy Act
(Oct 2010)
CHAPTER 15A
NEPA LESSONS LEARNED
Rebecca W. Watson
Welborn Sullivan Meck & Tooley, P.C.
Denver, Colorado

REBECCA W. WATSON is a shareholder with the law firm Welborn Sullivan Meck and Tooley, P.C. Ms. Watson has more than 30 years of legal and policy experience in the fields of conventional and renewable energy, natural resources and federal environmental law. As Assistant Secretary of the Interior Department, she had oversight of the Bureau of Land Management, Minerals Management Service and the Office of Surface Mining and led 12,000 employees and managed a $1 billion budget. Prior to her service in the Interior Department, Ms. Watson served as the Assistant General Counsel for Energy Policy at the U. S. Department of Energy in the George H. W. Bush administration. Ms. Watson is a graduate of the University of Denver Law School and has been a partner and counsel in two Washington D.C. law firms and served as Managing Partner for a firm in Helena, Montana. She began the practice of law in Wyoming. Ms. Watson focuses her practice on public land access and development for solar...