Marcella Burke

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Marcella is an environmental attorney specializing in crisis management, sustainability, and environmental law in the energy and infrastructure  sectors. She counsels clients in carbon capture, energy technology, chemicals, conventional oil and gas, hydraulic fracturing, renewables, permitting, citizen suit defense, criminal environmental enforcement, and  environmental investigations. She was Deputy General Counsel at the EPA, and Deputy Solicitor for Energy and Natural Resources at the Department  of Interior, where she managed the litigation docket and regulatory  portfolio of all energy and natural resource permitting and project  development on federal lands, including for the federal oil and gas,  renewables, and carbon capture programs. She was named by Women We  Admire as The Top 50 Women Leaders of Houston 2022, the Petroleum  Economist named her a global Top 100 Women of the Energy Transition  2021, she received the National Law Journal Energy/Environmental Law  Trailblazer Award 2021, and ranked among the Legal 500 United States top  environmental practices 2021. She is on the Executive Committee of  the Environment & Natural Resources Division of the State Bar of Texas,  the Institute for Energy Law Advisory Counsel, and is the Chair of the  Environment & Natural Resources Program Committee of the Foundation  for Natural Resources and Energy Law. She graduated from Texas A&M  University and the University of Houston Law Center.