Manufacturing, oil and gas, mining companies turn to the environmental & natural resources team at Vinson & Elkins LLP for its ability to handle high-stakes contamination cases. Ronald Tenpas leads the group from Washington DC, representing clients in criminal investigations related to environmental violations. The deep bench fields Matthew Dobbins , of the Houston office, whose handles indemnification claims and industrial incidents, Washington DC’s Corinne Snow, who is sought after for her experience challenging as well as defending federal regulations and the Houston-based Brandon Tuck, whose background in environmental and natural resources law, equips him to handle a spread of environmental issues surrounding project development and enforcement defense mandates.

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Key clients

  • American Water Works Association
  • National Rural Water Association
  • Ocean Point Terminals Aerospace Industries Association
  • IAV GmbH
  • Enbridge Inc.
  • Freeport-McMoRan Inc.
  • New Fortress Energy LLC
  • Perpetua Resources Corp.
  • ALTIVIA Management Inc.
  • Tadano Ltd.
  • Denbury Inc.
  • NextEra Energy, Inc.
  • Texas Eastern Transmission, LP
  • Mewbourne Oil Company
  • M6 Midstream
  • Elevation Midstream
  • Capture
  • Point Solutions
  • Validus Energy
  • Cheniere Energy
  • JL Proler & Iron and Steel Co.
  • Enbridge (and affiliates, including Rio Bravo Pipeline Company, LLC, Enbridge Ingleside Oil Terminal, LLC, and Texas Eastern Transmission LP)
  • Spire Storage West LLC
  • Gulf Coast Ammonia
  • Rio Bravo Pipeline
  • Enbridge Ingleside Oil Terminal, LLC
  • Greer Capital Corporation
  • Magellan Terminals Holdings, L.P.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Ronald Tenpas

Other key lawyers

Matthew Dobbins, Corinne Snow, Brandon Tuck