Environmental Lawyer - Tim Wilkins

The ‘phenomenal’ Timothy Wilkins is considered ‘an excellent, top-shelf lawyer who understands the technical complexities and regulations.’
Chambers USA, 2020

Tim’s clients rely on him for the defense of environmental enforcement actions and assistance with the environmental aspects of major transactions and project development matters, including siting and permitting. Tim has also overseen environmental compliance audits involving thousands of locations, handled hundreds of environmental audit disclosures and pioneered the development and use of US EPA’s audit policy for new owners. Although he undertakes matters in all environmental media, Tim has special depth in issues involving hazardous waste.

Publications & Speeches

“The ESG Movement and Its Impacts,” State Bar of Texas Business Law and Corporate Counsel Section Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, June 9, 2022.
“Environment, Social, and Governance – The Three Letters (ESG) Transforming Business,” APFM international Petrochemical Conference, March 27-29, 2022.
"More Focus on ESG Means More Scrutiny, Litigation and Enforcement, Too," Corporate Compliance Insights, March 1, 2022.
“Environmental Considerations for Real Estate Lawyers,” Dallas Bar Association Real Estate Section, November 8, 2021.
“New EPA Compliance Audit Guidance: New Owner, Voluntary Disclosure, Admission of Liability, Penalty Mitigation,” Strafford Seminar, October 26, 2021.
“Working with Lawyers: The Intersection of EHS Auditing Professionals and Legal Counsel,” The Auditing Alliance, September 14, 2021.
“State Regulators Panel,” with Denise Brimley of Pennsylvania and Jim Wright of Texas, Institute for Energy Law, Environmental Conference, March 24, 2021.
“Auditing in the New Decade: Creating Value by Reducing Environmental Liabilities and Risks,” 4C Conference, Austin, Texas, February 20, 2020.
Co-author, “Co-Located Facilities: Untangling Environmental Compliance, Liability and Accountability Issues”, Chemical Engineering, September 2018.
"Transactional Ethics Concerns," Texas Environmental Superconference, August 3, 2018.
Co-author, “Practitioner Insights: Environmental Auditing in a New Regulatory Era,” Bloomberg Environment & Energy Report, February 5, 2018.
Co-presenter, “Environmental Law’s Not Dead Yet: Optics Versus Reality in the New Administration’s Regulatory Reform Project,” Association of Corporate Counsel South/Central Texas Chapter, July 12, 2017.
Co-presenter, “What to Expect When You Don’t Know What to Expect: Working the EHS Regulatory Crystal Ball,” Young Professionals in Energy Austin Chapter, May 5, 2017.
Presenter, “Regulatory Update,” Environmental Health and Safety Audit Center, April 7, 2017.
"The Desktop Regulator: A Closer Look at the Future of Environmental Enforcement,” Bracewell’s Fall 2016 Environmental Law Seminar, November 15, 2016.
“Preparing for and Defending Environmental Enforcement Actions,” Association of Corporate Counsel South/Central Texas Chapter, San Antonio, July 6, 2016.
“Recent Environmental Enforcement Trends in the Energy Industry,” Association of Corporate Counsel South Central Texas Chapter’s Oil & Gas Law Lunch and Learn, San Antonio, April 28, 2016.
“A Regulator’s Reach Exceeds its Grasp: The Quiet Expansion of the TCEQ’s Water Code Jurisdiction,” Texas Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 46, No. 1, March 2016.
"Key Environmental Enforcement Trends for the Energy Industry," Texas Oil and Gas Association, Austin, Texas, April 14, 2016.
“EPA’s ‘Next Generation’ Enforcement Initiative – and What it Means for the Next Generation of Environmental Auditing,” The Auditing Roundtable’s 2016 National Meeting, Tempe, Arizona, April 11, 2016.
“Next Generation Enforcement and Its Implications for Auditing,” The Auditing Roundtable’s South Central Regional Meeting, Houston, February 29, 2016.