Bracewell LLP

Energy

Steven Cook advises clients on matters involving environmental and natural resources law and policy.

Prior to joining Bracewell, Steven served as Deputy Assistant Administrator at the Office of Land and Emergency Management (OLEM) of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). During his tenure at the EPA, Steven led teams responsible for issuing final rulemaking packages and guidance documents addressing the risk management plan or RMP rule, closure of coal ash (or CCR) ponds and landfills, disposal and destruction of PFAS contaminated waste and other PFAS remediation issues as well as developing new approaches to cleaning up abandoned hardrock mining sites.

Steven chaired the Superfund Taskforce which developed and implemented over 40 recommendations to improve the program with an emphasis on timely addressing contamination and returning the land back to the community as a useful asset. He was also instrumental in helping the EPA team move forward with clean-up plans at some of the most complex river and port sites and other languishing clean-ups.

The University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business, M.B.A. 1998 J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, J.D. 1988 magna cum laude Brigham Young University, B.S., Chemical Engineering 1985