Linda H. Bochert, Partner

Phone: 608-283-2271
Email: hbochert@michaelbest.com
Website: www.michaelbest.com
Professional Biography:
As a partner in the firm’s Land and Resources Practice Group, Linda Bochert helps her clients establish and maintain effective working relationships with state and federal environmental regulatory agencies. She serves in various policy advisory roles to state agencies, including the Wisconsin Departments of Natural Resources, Agriculture and Revenue. Her clients benefit from her unique understanding of the workings of regulatory agencies and her ability to develop mutually beneficial solutions to regulatory issues. Ms. Bochert also co-chairs our firmwide Sustainability Initiative.

Ms. Bochert focuses her practice on environmental law and includes wastewater permitting, stormwater management, air permitting, wetlands regulation, navigable waters (Chapter 30 and Section 404) and Public Trust Doctrine issues, Green Tier certifications, and large facility, landfill, pipeline, transmission line, wind farm and power plant siting. She co-authors an annual survey of Wisconsin environmental law and is a principal co-author and co-editor of the Wisconsin Environmental Law Handbook, 4th edition, published in July 2007.
Organization: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

Articles in the National Law Review database by Linda H. Bochert:

More Wisconsin DNR Permit Streamlining: Piers, General Navigable Waterway Permits, and Environmental Permit Notice Procedures -- Governor Walker Signs 2011 Wisconsin Act 167 (Posted On Monday, April 9, 2012)
Governor Signs Wetlands Reform Bill: 2011 Wisconsin Act 118 (Posted On Saturday, March 10, 2012)
DNR Receives Petition to Adopt Rules on Silica Air Emissions (Posted On Saturday, December 3, 2011)
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Announces December 8, 2011 Permitting Deadline (Posted On Saturday, October 8, 2011)
Thinking About Storage Options for Your Corn Crop? (Posted On Tuesday, July 19, 2011)
Wisconsin Supreme Court Upholds Village of East Troy’s High Capacity Well Permit; Finds WDNR Has a General Duty under Statute and the Public Trust Doctrine to Consider Impact to Waters of the State (Posted On Tuesday, July 12, 2011)
Wisconsin DNR’s New Phosphorus Rules: Update – They Are in Effect (Posted On Wednesday, June 29, 2011)
EPA Rejects Confidential Business Information Claims for More than 150 Chemical Names – Posts Information on EPA Website (Posted On Tuesday, June 28, 2011)
U.S. Supreme Court Decides American Electric Power Co., Inc. v. Connecticut (Posted On Monday, June 27, 2011)
U.S. Court of Appeals Upholds Wisconsin’s New Source Review Reform Rules (Posted On Friday, June 17, 2011)
Tier 1 and Tier 2 WPDES General Storm Water Permits Reissued (Posted On Wednesday, June 1, 2011)
Wisconsin DNR’s New Phosphorus Rules: Are They in Effect? (Posted On Tuesday, May 10, 2011)
EPA and Corps Issue Draft Guidance on Waterways and Wetlands That Fall Under Federal Jurisdiction as Part of Obama Administration’s Just Released Clean Water Framework (Posted On Friday, April 29, 2011)
Wisconsin Supreme Court Limits WDNR’s Authority Regarding WPDES (Posted On Thursday, March 24, 2011)
EPA Issues Final Boiler MACT Rules (Posted On Friday, February 25, 2011)
EPA Defers GHG Permitting Requirements for Biomass Industries (Posted On Tuesday, January 18, 2011)
EPA Issues Guidance on Permitting for GHG Emissions (Posted On Sunday, November 14, 2010)

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