Kevin Poloncarz

Covington & Burling LLP

Kevin Poloncarz is a partner with Covington & Burling LLP and co-chairs the firm’s Environmental and Energy Practice Group, Energy Industry Group and ESG Practice. He is ranked by Chambers among the nation’s top five climate change lawyers and California’s top eight environmental lawyers. He advises technology companies and financial institutions on carbon markets and ESG strategy and helps companies advocate for a wide range of climate solutions. Kevin also represents advanced energy interests in litigation defending strong climate and environmental standards for power plants and light-duty vehicles under the Clean Air Act. On behalf of a coalition of major power companies, he argued the key statutory point upon which the D.C. Circuit struck down the Trump Administration’s repeal of the Clean Power Plan, and then second-chaired his Supreme Court partner’s argument alongside the Solicitor General in last term’s landmark climate case, West Virginia v. EPA. He is on the board of directors of the Environmental Law Institute and the Center for Applied Environmental Law and Policy; a fellow and regent of the American College of Environmental Lawyers; and on the advisory board and council of the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University (NYU) School of Law and the State Energy and Environmental Law Center at NYU School of Law. He is a graduate of Hobart College and the University of Chicago Law School. He, his husband and their rescue whippet spend most of their time together in Napa, where he tends to a small orchard, large garden, flock of hens and two rescue goats.