Janice M. Schneider

Janice Schneider is a partner in Latham & Watkins' Washington, D.C. office, where she is a global Co-chair of the Energy & Infrastructure Project Siting & Defense Practice and local department Chair of the Environment, Land & Resources Department.  She has over 20 years of experience in environmental, American Indian and natural resource issues.

Ms. Schneider handles a broad range of matters in federal court and before federal agencies, members of Congress and its staff. Her expertise includes Endangered Species Act (ESA), National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Clean Water Act, and tribal and cultural resource issues. Ms. Schneider has extensive experience in the energy development sector, including renewable and conventional energy development, transmission line development and hydropower project licensing, operation and compliance, the minerals and mining sector, and public land, national forest, American Indian land, national wildlife refuge, and national park use and management. Prior to joining Latham in 2001, Ms. Schneider practiced law with the US Department of the Interior, the US Department of Justice and served for a year as counselor to the Deputy Secretary of the Interior.

Ms. Schneider has first chair experience litigation experience, including defending requests for temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions, summary judgment, discovery and trial, negotiation and mediation. Ms. Schneider also has experience in federal policy development and legislative and regulatory activities, including analysis and drafting of legislative language, testimony and remarks, and preparing and commenting on proposed rules and agency initiatives.
Before becoming a lawyer, Ms. Schneider was a marine biologist, environmental specialist and consultant specializing in environmental impact analysis, environmental audits and securing entitlements for large land and transportation development projects.

Ms. Schneider was recognized as a leading lawyer in the 2011 and 2012 The Legal 500 US guide in the area of Environment: Transactions and Regulatory. She was also cited as a recommended lawyer in the Environment: Litigation category both years. In 2011, Law360 included Ms. Schneider in their list of Environmental MVPs which honor “attorneys whose accomplishments in major litigation or transactions have raised the bar” this year.

• Clean Energy Law Report: The Council on Environmental Quality Releases Handbooks Intended to Streamline NEPA Reviews with NHPA and CEQA Reviews -  April 10, 2013
• Clean Energy Law Report: Court Strikes Down Quechan Tribe's Challenges to the Ocotillo Wind Energy Facility Project  -  March 19, 2013
• A Snapshot of Renewable Energy Project Litigation -  December 06, 2012
• Litigation Landscape for Renewable Energy Projects -  November 15, 2012
• Clean Energy Law Report: Court Vacates Ruby Pipeline "No Jeopardy" Biological Opinion  -  November 07, 2012
• BLM Adopts Comprehensive Solar Energy Development Program -  November 01, 2012
• Clean Energy Law Blog: DOD and DOI Open 16 Million Acres of Federal Lands to Renewable Energy Projects -  September 04, 2012
• Clean Energy Law Blog: Law Gives Tribes Option To Assume Leasing Authority For Certain Leases On Tribal Trust Lands -  August 22, 2012
• UPDATE: Forest Service Announces Proposed Rule and Request for Comments Regarding Project-Level Pre-Decisional Administrative Review Process -  August 20, 2012
• Clean Energy Law Blog: Federal Government Finalizes Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Solar Energy Development in Six Southwestern States -  August 10, 2012
• Proposed Revisions to Regulations for Eagle Take Permits -  July 09, 2012
• Compliance with the Clean Water Act for 2012 -  May 29, 2012
• Proposed Rule on Hydraulic Fracturing on Federal and Tribal Lands -  May 24, 2012
• Supreme Court Finds Review of Clean Water Act Order Available Under APA -  April 03, 2012
• Clean Energy Law Report: U.S. Army Corps Reissues 48 Existing and Two New Nationwide Permits  -  March 08, 2012
• Clean Energy Law Report: Forest Service Appeals Replaced with Pre-Decisional Objection Process -  March 05, 2012
• Clean Energy Law Report: Wind and Solar Resource Development on Indian Land -  January 10, 2012
• Clean Energy Law Report: Leasing Public Lands for Solar and Wind Energy Development -  January 05, 2012
• Clean Energy Law Report: Modifications to Draft Solar Energy Development Impact Statement -  November 04, 2011
• Federal Government Proposes Significant Modifications to the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Solar Energy Development in Six Southwestern States -  November 3, 2011
• Clean Energy Law Report: 117-Mile Sunrise Powerlink Project to Proceed -  July 07, 2011
• Ninth Circuit’s "Federal Defendant" Intervention Rule in NEPA Cases Finally Meets Its End: Wilderness Society v. United States Forest Service -  February 22, 2011
• Obama Administration Accelerates Commitment to Offshore Wind Projects -  December 22, 2010
• The Council on Environmental Quality’s Draft Guidance for National Environmental Policy Act Climate Change Analysis: Key Points -  April 19, 2010
• EPA Announces Proposed Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program to Apply to Nearly All Sectors of the US Economy -  March 12, 2009
• Climate Change: Potential Impact of Polar Bear Listing -  June 11, 2008
• The Endangered Species Act and Global Climate Change: Potential Ramifications of the Polar Bear Listing -  May 27, 2008
• Delta Water Supplies to Two-Thirds of All Californians May Be Restricted by Endangered Species Act Injunction -  January 8, 2008
• Trends in Analysis of Global Climate Change Under NEPA -  October 15, 2007
• Interim, Interagency Guidance to Implement Rapanos and Carabell Effective Immediately -  June 13, 2007