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Mitch Bernard, Director of Litigation, New York City
Mitchell Bernard is NRDC's Litigation Director. At NRDC, he has successfully litigated water, air, toxics, and environmental justice cases against Texaco, Mallinckrodt, Duke Energy, and a variety of government agencies. From 1995-98, as a monitor appointed by United States District Judge John S. Martin, Jr., he oversaw the creation and implementation of an environmental compliance program at Con Edison. He later served as a consultant to the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He is a graduate of Princeton University and New York University School of Law, where he was a Hays Civil Liberties Fellow. He was a law clerk in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
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Posted June 24, 2010 by Mitch Bernard in U.S. Law and Policy
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We at NRDC were honored that President Obama chose NRDC’s President, Frances Beinecke, to serve on the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. NRDC was one of many voices calling for establishment of the...continued→
