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Rob Loring Brubaker
Fellow since 2008
Columbus,
Ohio
Region 5 IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, and WI
Environmental Law Topic
Admissions
- Ohio
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
- Ohio Supreme Court
Professional Societies and Organizations
- Chair, IBA, Agriculture and Food Section, 2022 - 2024, Senior Vice Chair, IBA,
- Appointed by Maryland Governor Martin OMalley to serve on the Washington College Board of Visitors and Governors, 2013 - 2016, and by Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, 2016 - 2022
- Chair, ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, 2005 - 2006
- Past Chair, ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources Special Committee on TSCA Reform, 2009
- Vice Chair, ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, Pesticides and Chemicals Committee, 2008 -
- Editor, ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources Pesticides and Chemicals Newsletter
- Member, ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources Governance Committee, 2013 - 2014
- Member, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Nanotechnology Standards Panel (NSP) Steering Committee, 2004 - 2005
- Chair of the Environment, Health, and Safety Committee of the NanoBusiness Commercialization Association
- Member, Steering Committee of EPAs Pollution Prevention through Nanotechnology Conference
- Member, ISO Technical Committee 229 on Nanotechnologies Steering Committee, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Developments (OECD) Conference on Potential Environmental Benefits of Nanotechnology Fostering Safe Innovation-Led Growth, Paris, France, 2009
Illustrative Projects
- Among the first U.S. law firms to assist several manufacturers of nanoscale
- Among the first law firms judicially to challenge a Significant New Use Rule (SNUR) issued under TSCA Section 5 to eliminate or lessen commercial restrictions placed on the manufacture, processing, and distribution of a new chemical substance.
- Assists several biobased chemical manufacturers address difficult TSCA nomenclature and chemical identity issues and devise and implement product stewardship protocols to manage these products with downstream stakeholders.
- Assists clients prepare and obtain approvals for chemicals produced by intergeneric microorganisms.
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