Noelle Wooten represents clients in state, federal, and administrative disputes involving environmental and consumer product litigation, regulation, and compliance matters. She applies her technical background, prior experience at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and more than 30 years of practice to assist clients with matters involving complex toxic tort issues, private party disputes, and administrative penalty actions.
Ms. Wooten has significant experience in several areas of environment law, including environmental litigation, environmental due diligence, risk assessment and negotiation strategies in real estate transactions, and environmental compliance and regulatory counseling in matters involving hazardous substances, waste management, chemical control, retail product management, and drug packaging. She provides guidance in reviewing or creating compliance programs and finding solutions to environmental issues. Ms. Wooten defends actions such as alleged violations of the Toxic Substances Control Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and Superfund. She has appeared before the Supreme Court of North Carolina, the North Carolina Office of Administrative Hearings, and the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission to advocate on behalf of her clients.
Ms. Wooten also works with both buyers and sellers in real estate and business transactions by providing environmental due diligence counsel and assistance in the identification and allocation of environmental risk. She enjoys bringing creative solutions to environmental challenges to facilitate business transactions and brownfield redevelopment projects, as well as working with regulators across the country to remedy environmentally impaired properties.
In addition to her litigation, compliance and regulatory practice, Ms. Wooten is a trained mediator.
Before practicing law, Ms. Wooten worked as an environmental protection specialist in the EPA's Office of Solid Waste where she contributed to the 1990 Toxicity Characteristic Rule and served as co-chair for the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the RCRA Policy Issues Committee.