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.

Kevin is ranked among the nation’s top five climate change lawyers and California’s top eight environmental lawyers by Chambers USA; among the top global climate change lawyers by Chambers Global Market Leaders; and among the top four US-based climate change lawyers by Who’s Who Global Elite.

Kevin 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 and policy matters, advocating for 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 the landmark climate case of West Virginia v. EPA.

Kevin is on the advisory boards of Harvard Law School’s Environmental and Energy Law Program, the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University (NYU) School of Law, and the State Energy and Environmental Impact Center at NYU School of Law; the board of directors of the Center for Applied Environmental Law and Policy; and a fellow and regent of the American College of Environmental Lawyers.

He is a graduate of Hobart College and the University of Chicago Law School. He, his husband and their rescue whippet live on three acres in the Napa Valley, where he tends to a small orchard, large garden, flock of hens and two rescue goats.