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Ben Clapp

Washington DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

  • Address:
    • Suite 700
      Washington, District of Columbia, 20005
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    • 202-853-3455
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ABOUT Ben Clapp

Area of Emphasis

Ben Clapp is an associate in the Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources, and Emerging Technologies groups of Babst Calland. Mr. Clapp advises clients on the environmental components of complex transactions, including identifying and analyzing significant environmental liability and compliance issues arising in connection with mergers and acquisitions, asset sales, securities offerings, project financings, and corporate restructurings. He works to manage, allocate or mitigate these environmental risks in the client’s best interest. To that end, Mr. Clapp has extensive experience drafting and negotiating environmental representations and warranties, covenants, indemnities, and other contractual provisions, drafting and evaluating environmental disclosure statements, and counseling clients on pre- and post-closing environmental compliance and permitting matters. Mr. Clapp’s transactional clients have included buyers, sellers, financing sources, and underwriters in transactions taking place across a wide range of industries, including the upstream, midstream, and downstream oil and gas sectors, renewable energy, real estate, utilities, chemicals, manufacturing, mining, pharmaceuticals, pulp and paper, and food and beverage.

Mr. Clapp also advises project developers and investors as they encounter state and federal environmental review, facility siting, and permitting requirements, with a particular focus on providing advice on National Environmental Policy Act requirements to clients seeking government agency approvals for large-scale energy and infrastructure projects. In this role, Mr. Clapp works closely with clients, environmental consultants, and government agencies to facilitate timely and accurate satisfaction of environmental regulatory requirements.

Background

Mr. Clapp earned is J.D., cum laude, from American University Washington College of Law in 2008 and his B.A. from the University of Richmond in 1996. He served as Senior Staff for the American University Law Review and interned for the Honorable Reggie B. Walton in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Publications/Presentations

•Co-author, “Montana District Court’s Vacatur of NWP 12 Impacts Pipeline Projects Across United States,” Babst Calland Environmental Alert, May 4, 2020.
•Co-author, “The Council of Environmental Quality Proposes to Amend NEPA Regulations,” Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation’s Natural Resources Law Insights, April 2020.
•Co-author, “EPA Establishes Temporary Policy for Excusing COVID-19-Related Noncompliance,” Babst Calland Environmental Alert, March 30, 2020.
•Co-author, “Potential Impacts to Real Estate Development of Proposed Amendments to NEPA Regulations,” Developing Pittsburgh, Spring 2020.
•Co-author, “Council on Environmental Quality Proposes Amendments to NEPA Regulations,” PA Law Weekly, January 30, 2020.
•Co-author, “The Council on Environmental Quality Proposes to Amend NEPA Regulations,” Babst Calland Environmental Alert, January 22, 2020.
•Co-author, “The Evolving Regulation of TEC Vapor Intrusion Issues,” Envt’l Law News Fall 2016, Vol.25, No. 2.

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Areas of LAW

  • Environmental

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