Texas Environmental Lawyers

Environmental Law

600 Travis St, Houston, TX 77002, USA

Gerry Pels, Chair of the Firm-wide Environmental Section - Energy and Industrial, has been one of the leaders of the Texas environmental legal community for over 30 years. His diverse practice focuses on the areas of environmental compliance, counseling, and litigation. During his career, Gerry has consistently led teams working on cutting edge matters of environmental law, including resolving the well-known Cooper v. Aviall litigation and arguing Clean Air Act issues before the 5th Circuit in litigation involving the Texas SIP. Gerry has been consistently recognized in Chambers USA since 2004 as well as in The Best Lawyers in America for Environmental Law. He was also an adjunct law professor for seven years teaching both environmental law and an advanced RCRA seminar. Gerry's wide range of experience includes agency negotiations, assessing and counseling air, water, stormwater, and waste permit compliance, representing clients at contested permit, enforcement, and other hearings.

Environmental Law

2421 West 7th Street, Suite 300, Forth Worth, TX 76107

Jeffrey Hodges is an oil and gas attorney in Fort Worth, Texas, and a senior associate at Rainey & Wortmann. His Texas bar record identifies him as Jeffrey William Hodges and lists him as eligible to practice, with a license date of November 3, 2006. Hodges joined Rainey & Wortmann in June 2023 after serving as a partner at Kuiper Law Firm in the Fort Worth area from July 2019 through May 2023. Earlier positions included a Houston senior associate role at Kuiper, Wheat & Associates from February 2018 to July 2019 and an attorney position at Coats Rose from January 2017 to February 2018. Mineral title examination is a focus of his work. His experience includes hundreds of title opinions concerning major oil and gas exploration areas in Texas, New Mexico and Wyoming, as well as title opinion work in Colorado. He has also performed due diligence for acquisitions and divestitures. His advice to exploration and production companies covers oil, gas and mineral law issues, including transactions and purchases and sales of assets. His education includes Texas Tech University, which his firm biography lists with the year 2003. The Texas bar records his J.D. from Texas Wesleyan University in May 2006. Rainey & Wortmann serves oil and gas companies nationwide from its Fort Worth home office. The firm represents integrated Fortune 500 oil and gas companies, private equity-backed startups and mineral rights companies.

Environmental Law

2135 East Hildebrand Ave., 100, San Antonio, TX 78209

Area of Practice: Natural Resources

Environmental Law

910 West Ave., Suite 3, Austin, TX 78701

Peter Gregg’s legal career has been devoted to representing clients in administrative and environmental regulatory and litigation matters. His practice includes a focus on issues involving waste management and contaminated properties, including state and federal CERCLA matters, RCRA corrective action and compliance counseling, transactions involving contaminated properties, and counseling on state and federal regulatory cleanup programs. He also represents clients on all manner of air, water, waste management, and water and wastewater utility regulatory issues (permitting, enforcement, and general compliance matters) before the EPA, TCEQ and PUC and and in matters before the Railroad Commission of Texas. ? Mr. Gregg began his career at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), where he provided program development and legal/litigation support for various air, water quality, and industrial and hazardous waste programs. He spent several years as in-house environmental counsel at international energy company El Paso Corporation prior to returning to private practice in Austin as a partner in a national environmental law firm. During his years in private practice, he has represented national and international clients within the chemical, petroleum refining, and oil and natural gas production, processing and transportation industries, among others, as well as various local and regional manufacturing and utility interests. ? Mr. Gregg is a former Chair of the Texas Bar’s Environmental and Natural Resources Law Section and a former Chair of the Houston Bar Association’s Environmental Law Section. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Environmental Law, Woodward/White, Inc. (2009-2020) and The Best Lawyers in America, Litigation-Environmental, Woodward/White, Inc. (2011-2020). He is AV Peer Review Rated.