Carol F. McCabe

Carol is the managing partner of Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox LLP, working in the firm’s complex industrial and regulatory practices. She has worked with a broad range of industrial clients in the manufacturing, energy and waste management sectors. Carol counsels clients on a wide variety of environmental issues, including permitting, compliance and enforcement matters related to air emissions, storage tanks, stormwater, wastewater, and hazardous and non-hazardous waste. She has assisted clients with regulatory compliance, environmental auditing, emergency planning, permit appeals, and defense of agency enforcement actions. She has represented clients before the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board, the New Jersey Office of Administrative Law, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Appeals Board, and the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals. Carol has supported our clients in the environmental aspects of corporate transactions, and in remediation matters.

Carol has been recognized by Chambers USA – America’s Leading Lawyers for Business listing (environmental law), since 2008 and was named an American College of Environmental Lawyers Fellow in 2019. Carol was named Best Lawyers® Environmental Law “Lawyer of the Year in 2025 and 2022”. She has also been included in The Best Lawyers® in America listing (environmental law/energy regulatory law), since 2013. Carol has been recognized in Super Lawyers for environmental law since 2012 and has earned multiple distinctions, including: Top 10 in the 2022 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list; Top 100 in Pennsylvania (2021–2023); Top 100 in Philadelphia (2018–2019, 2021–2024); and Top 50 Women in Pennsylvania Super Lawyers every year since 2017.

Outside of the office, Carol serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council and is a volunteer attorney with the Support Center for Child Advocates. She will serve as an Associate Member representative on the Chemistry Council of New Jersey’s Board of Trustees from 2024-2026 and is also on the St. Joseph’s Preparatory School Board of Trustees. Carol and her husband Bernie live in Haverford with their four children.