Lori Kier

Since 2023, Lori Kier has been a senior attorney, Clean Water Program, at the Environmental Integrity Project, Washington, D.C., where she works on wastewater permitting and enforcement matters nationally — especially in the coal, steel and oil and gas sectors. Her work currently focuses on matters arising in the Chesapeake Bay watershed as well as Pennsylvania, Texas, Louisiana, and the upper midwest. Previously, she spent 24 years as an Assistant and Senior Assistant Regional Counsel at U.S. EPA Region 3 (Mid-Atlantic Region), where she developed and prosecuted enforcement cases under multiple state and federal environmental statutes, including the Clean Water and Safe Drinking Water Acts, and participated in drafting federal permits and reviewing state permits.  

While at EPA, Lori received numerous awards for her work, including an EPA Bronze Medal for the Revised Total Coliform Rule in Pennsylvania and Virginia; a Federal Executive Board Gold Medal for Scientific Achievement as part of a Perfluorinated Chemicals Investigation Team; and a US. Department of Justice Commendation Certificate for support of a Clean Water Act case against a western Pennsylvania steel manufacturer. After her time at EPA, Lori worked on Clean Streams Law matters at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and spent several years in private practice at a small litigation firm. Prior to her tenure at EPA, Lori served as a Law Clerk to U.S. District Judge Fred I. Parker (D. Vt.). She earned her J.D from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and her B.A. cum laude from Middlebury College in Vermont.