Peter Gray

Peter is a senior counsel in the firm’s Environment and Natural Resources Group. He focuses on disputes over the responsibility for the cleanup of contaminated property, including emerging contaminants such as PFAS; challenges to state and federal environmental regulations; enforcement cases involving hazardous materials; arbitration in data compensation claims involving pesticide data submissions; and environmental due diligence in large commercial transactions.

Peter has been ranked by Chambers USA as a leading environmental attorney in the Washington, D.C., area, and he is an Acritas Star, Acritas Stars Independently Rated Lawyers (2019). He has been named by Super Lawyers as a leader in his field and was recognized by Corporate Responsibility Magazine’s 2014 “Legal Who’s Who in Environmental Law.” Peter was also listed in Who’s Who Legal: Environment 2017 and has been included in multiple editions of The Best Lawyers in America.

In addition to his environmental litigation practice, Peter has a diverse Washington, D.C.-based regulatory practice in which he regularly represents clients before numerous federal agencies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation, and counsels clients on hazardous materials management, release reporting requirements, and climate change planning and advocacy.

One of Peter’s areas of concentration is the regulation of pesticide products by EPA under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. He is one of a handful of lawyers experienced in litigating “pesticide data compensation” claims under FIFRA and has handled hundreds of claims over the past 25 years.

Peter writes extensively in the environmental area. He was selected by the American Bar Association to write “The Superfund Manual” (2015), the definitive treatise on Superfund. Other manuals and treatises he has authored include “The CERCLA Basic Practice Manual” (ABA 2008), the “Pesticide Regulation Handbook” (2007), and “The EPCRA Basic Practice Manual” (ABA 2002). Peter also participates as a commentator in broadcast media, having appeared on “Fox Business News” and Bloomberg Radio.

Peter co-founded the Association of Climate Change Officers, and he is a member of the Environmental Law Institute Leadership Circle. He has served in many leadership roles in the ABA Section on Environment, Energy, and Resources, including as past chair of the Environmental Litigation and Toxic Torts Committee and the Site Remediation Committee.

Peter is also an arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association.