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Matthew E. Cohen is an associate in the
Environmental and Energy Department at Richards, Watson & Gershon.
Mr. Cohen represents municipalities and public entities, as well
as private sector clients, in both state and federal courts in environmental
compliance and environmental litigation matters.
Mr. Cohen’s environmental experience includes the Clean Water
Act, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and
Liability Act ("CERCLA"), the Resources Conservation and
Recovery Act ("RCRA"), Proposition 65 claims, and the
Polanco Redevelopment Act. Mr. Cohen also has significant experience
with NPDES Permit and TMDL implementation issues under the Clean
Water Act.
Mr. Cohen received his B.S., in Wildlife, Fish and Conservation
Biology from the University of California, Davis in 1998. He received
his Master of Science in Forestry from Michigan Technological University
in 2002, writing his thesis on "Utilizing Microcatchment Systems
to Increase Tree Establishment Rates in the Bolivian High Plains."
He received his J.D. from the University of California, Davis in
2005 where he was a senior articles editor of Environs Environmental
Law and Policy Journal. Mr. Cohen was a summer associate at
RW&G during the summer of 2004.
Prior to attending law school, Mr. Cohen served in the United States
Peace Corps (1999-2001) in Oruro, Bolivia. While serving in Bolivia,
Mr. Cohen worked as an agroforestry extension agent with Aymara
Indian farmers to increase agricultural production and soil quality.
He acquired a grant from UNDP to construct 10 rainwater catchment
ponds benefiting 40 Aymara farm families. He also taught university
courses in soil conservation, environmental education, and nursery
management at the Universidad Technica de Oruro.
After serving in the Peace Corps, he went to work as a Legal Researcher
for the South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre in New Delhi,
India (2003) where he co-published a field manual for human rights
workers and authored a critique of the Malimath Commission Report
on Reforms of the Criminal Justice System for the Indian Parliament.
Mr. Cohen's Publications include:
Matthew Cohen, Utilization de Metodos de Conservacion de Suelos
para Mejorar la Produccion de Forrajes en el Altiplano Boliviano,
in case Studies in Peace Corps 45-48 (Center for Research and Development
2000);
Matthew Cohen & Jesus Cardenas, Rainwater Harvesting Ponds:
a manual for construction and maintenance (Peace Corps 2001);
Jim Pickens, Scott Noble, Matthew Cohen & Kristen Rahn, Predicting
discolored heart development in sugar maple, Northeastern Research
Station of the USDA-Forest Service (2003);
Matt Cohen, U.S. Shipbreaking Exports: balancing safe disposal
with economic realities, 28 Environs Envtl. L. & Pol'y
J. 237 (2005).
Matthew E. Cohen, James B. Pickens, Jesus Cardenas Castillo, &
Blair Orr, Ecological Suitability and Tree Seedling Survival
in the Bolivian Altiplano, 15 Ecologia Austral 207 (2005).
Matthew E. Cohen, Please Show Us the Way: Stormwater Regulation—
The California Experience, 12 Western Water Law & Policy
Reporter 131 (2008)
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