Stephen J. Matzura

Profile

Steve advises industrial, commercial, and municipal clients on a broad range of environmental, health, and safety (“EHS”) issues, including water quality, stormwater, water use, wastewater, waste, hazardous materials and safety, and air quality.  He works with clients in various industry sectors, such as energy, oil and gas (including pipelines), manufacturing, food and beverage, metals, construction and land development, auto dealerships, education, and healthcare.  Steve helps clients with EHS compliance, permitting, auditing, self-disclosures, and enforcement actions, including addressing issues with environmental agencies, river basin commissions, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”).  He also advises clients on the environmental implications of business and real estate transactions and litigates environmental matters before courts and administrative hearing boards, including the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board.

Some examples of Steve’s work include:

• Comprehensive EHS audits and self-disclosures under agency audit policies to mitigate noncompliance
• NPDES permitting and compliance under the Clean Water Act (“CWA”) and Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law (“CSL”) and potential liability for unlawful discharges
• Wastewater management and disposal issues, including for industrial dischargers, municipalities, and publicly owned treatment works (“POTWs”) under pretreatment programs
• Permitting and compliance for surface and groundwater withdrawals and water rights, including water use for oil-and-gas operations
• Oil-and-gas rights in and under streambeds
• Hazardous and residual waste, recycling of wastes, and compliance with the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”) and Pennsylvania Solid Waste Management Act
• Managing investigations, information requests, and inspections
• Assisting in the environmental implications of business and real estate transactions
• Workplace emergencies and compliance with the Occupational Safety and Health Act and OSHA standards
• Chemical safety in the workplace, the Hazard Communication Standard, and the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (“GHS”)
• Drafting safety data sheets (“SDSs”) and labels, compliance with California Proposition 65 (“Prop 65”) warnings, and emergency reporting under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (“EPCRA”)

Steve has also handled bid protests and internal investigations for clients in the construction and engineering sectors.

Steve has authored and co-authored articles and treatise chapters in the fields of environmental and energy law, including:

• Water Quality, Chapter 4 in Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Pennsylvania Environmental Law and Practice (9th ed. 2018).
• Cybersecurity in the Era of Unconventional Development: Is the Energy Sector Ready for Cyber Attacks?, Chapter 28 in Energy & Mineral Law Foundation (36th Annual Institute June 2015).
• Acquisition of Water for Energy and Mineral Development in the Eastern United States, The Water-Energy Nexus, Paper No. 2A (Rocky Mt. Min. L. Fdn. 2012).