Speaker profile
W. Caffey Norman
W. Caffey Norman has participated in EPA rulemakings to regulate hazardous substances under all the environmental statutes and has initiated legislative and judicial review of a number of EPA regulations. These include representation of manufacturers of methylene chloride in litigation in the Second and Ninth Circuits challenging the first product ban and the first risk evaluation following the 2016 amendment of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA); representation of three others of the first ten substances subject to risk evaluations under amended TSCA; and advising a major fluorochemicals manufacturer on regulatory and policy issues arising under the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer and the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, including successful representation in Mexichem Fluor Inc. v. EPA in the D.C. Circuit (overturning SNAP delisting rules) and support for Congressional action to implement the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol. He also serves as counsel to the National Cannabis Roundtable and represents a number of foreign governments and financial institutions in connection with legal problems and policy issues arising out of their investments and activities.