Mark R. Sussman

Mark Sussman is chair of the Firm’s Environmental Practice Group. He counsels clients on all aspects of environmental law with particular emphasis on air and water pollution, waste management, Brownfields remediation, chemical regulation, and water supply issues.

A substantial part of Mark’s practice involves advising clients on site remediation issues and Brownfields redevelopment. This work includes serving as outside environmental counsel in connection with the remediation and redevelopment of the former Remington Park manufacturing facility in Bridgeport, Connecticut, a 422 acre industrial site subject to a RCRA corrective action order. Mark also successfully led a team which obtained only the second final cleanup approval ever issued by Connecticut for a RCRA-permitted site.

Mark has extensive experience in representing energy companies on environmental matters. He served as lead environmental counsel in the development and permitting of a variety of power plants, including: Connecticut’s largest merchant power plant - a 792 megawatt, gas-fired combustion turbine project; a 180 megawatt circulating fluidized bed coal cogeneration plant; four waste-to-energy plants; modifications to Connecticut’s largest coal electric generating station; and a number of other smaller power plants.

Mark’s practice also includes the representation of renewable energy companies. He has represented solar project and anaerobic digestion project developers. Representative projects include the acquisition and development of 6 megawatts of solar projects in North Carolina and the development of a food waste and sludge renewable energy project in Connecticut.

Prior to entering private practice, Mark served in the Land and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Justice Department as a trial attorney and at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a water quality engineer. In addition to his administrative and environmental counseling practice, Mark participates in and supervises environmental litigation matters.

Publications

• Co-author with Graham T. Coates: "Green Energy Policy in the Northeastern United States," The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Environment & Climate Change Law 2013 - 10th Edition, 2013
• Co-author with Diane C. Bellantoni: "Rising Tide: The Impact of the Supreme Court Decision on the Global Warming Debate," Conn. Lawyer, Dec. 2007/Jan. 2008

• Energy
• Environmental Law
• Renewable Energy

• Connecticut Bar Association, Environmental Law Section, Chair (1984-1987)
• Connecticut Business and Industry Association (CBIA) Environmental Policies Council; Air Management Task Force, Chair (1999-2005); Steering Committee, Member (1999-present)
• American Bar Association, Section of Environment, Energy and Natural Resources
• Connecticut Business & Industry Association, Environmental Policies Council, member of Steering Committee and Chair of Air Pollution Task Force (1998-2008)

• Fellow of American College of Environmental Lawyers

• Listed as top tier 1 environment lawyer in Chambers USA, Chambers & Partners-Publishing (ChambersandPartners.com)

• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® as Hartford Lawyer of the Year in the area of Environmental Law in 2015 and 2010 and in the area of Litigation – Environmental in 2014 and 2016 (Copyright 2015 by Woodward/White, Inc., Aiken, SC)

• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® in the areas of Environmental Law and Litigation – Environmental since 1993 and Litigation - Environmental since 2011 (Copyright 2015 by Woodward/White, Inc., Aiken, SC)

• Holds an AV® Preeminent™ Peer Rating from Martindale-Hubbell

• Listed in Connecticut Super Lawyers® in the areas of Environmental, Energy & Natural Resources and Environmental Litigation from 2006-2015 (Super Lawyers is a registered trademark of Key Professional Media, Inc.)

• Who's Who in America
• Who's Who in American Law
• Who's Who Legal: The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, Environmental Law

• U.S. Department of Justice, Land and Natural Resources Division, 1977-1981

• August 15, 2017 - 35 Murtha Cullina Attorneys Receive “Best Lawyers in America” Recognition; Three Named “Lawyer of the Year”
• August 16, 2016 - Attorneys Receive "Best Lawyers" Recognition
• May 27, 2016 - Murtha Cullina Recognized by Chambers USA
• August 19, 2015 - Attorneys Receive "Best Lawyers" Recognition
• October 20, 2014 - Mark R. Sussman Elected Fellow of American College of Environmental Lawyers
• August 28, 2014 - Best Lawyers in America Continues to Recognize Murtha Cullina Attorneys
• Murtha Attorneys To Form New Renewable Energy Association

• October 29, 2015 - Air and Waste Management Association Fall 2015 Conference

• March 17, 2016 - Mark R. Sussman Writes Blog on Revoking Consent Orders for American College of Environmental Lawyers
• April 1, 2015 - Mark R. Sussman Writes Blog on State RFP Process for American College of Environmental Lawyers
• EPA Issues Final Rule Amending All Appropriate Inquiries Standard
• DEEP Issues New General Permit for the Discharge of Stormwater and Dewatering Wastewaters from Construction Activities
• Connecticut DEEP Proposes Permit-by-Rule for Combined Heat-and-Power Systems
• UPDATE - Proposed Amendments to Remediation Standard Regulations and Environmental Land Use Restrictions Regulations
• Industrial Storm Water Discharges - Updated Plans and Registrations due June 1

• April 5, 2017 - Slashing EPA's Budget Will Hinder Efforts to Improve Environmental Regulations
• “Officials Get A Lesson On New Law Against Invasive Bamboo”
• April 1, 2013 - "Green Energy Policy in the Northeastern United States"
• "Rising Tide: The Impact of the Supreme Court Decision on the Global Warming Debate", Conn. Lawyer

• January 27, 2016 - Mark Sussman served as the moderator of the “Meet the Policymakers” Panel at the Connecticut Recycling Conference and Trade Show

• U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut
• Connecticut
• Massachusetts
• District of Columbia

• University of Pennsylvania (J.D., cum laude, 1977)
• Tufts University (B.S. in Civil Engineering, summa cum laude, 1974)