Erica M. Spitzig

In addition to her clean water expertise, Erica also represents clients on a wide array of environmental matters. She assists clients with permitting and compliance involving a variety of media and statutes, including the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Federal Insecticide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), among other federal, state and local environmental laws. Erica also has extensive experience with Brownfields laws and regulations, and works with clients to remediate properties contaminated by long histories of industrial use under CERCLA and state laws, including the Ohio Voluntary Action Program. She also routinely litigates environmental cases in state and federal court, including matters involving RCRA, CERCLA, and other state and federal environmental laws.

Erica also frequently collaborates with Taft’s Energy practice group related to regulatory and environmental approvals for infrastructure projects, including the development of a 200 megawatt solar-powered electric generating facility, which constituted the largest individual solar project in the State of Ohio.

Erica also served as an assistant attorney general for the State of Ohio, where she litigated Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act enforcement matters and administrative appeals, and represented Ohio EPA in alternative energy matters before the Ohio Power Siting Board and Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.

Erica received her Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, and her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Franciscan University of Steubenville.