• Environmental Law Counsel, P.C. is an environmental law firm founded by a seasoned environmental lawyer committed to providing the highest quality environmental law expertise to clients who are building, growing and operating businesses.

    Located in Chicago, ELC’s experience includes representing large and small companies across the country in a wide array of business sectors, from waste management, healthcare, and real estate to electricity, petroleum, natural gas, biofuels, chemicals, secondary aluminum and a variety of other manufacturing sectors.

  • Environmental Law Counsel, P.C. is an environmental law firm founded by a seasoned environmental lawyer committed to providing the highest quality environmental law expertise to clients who are building, growing and operating businesses.

    Located in Chicago, ELC’s experience includes representing large and small companies across the country in a wide array of business sectors, from waste management, healthcare, and real estate to electricity, petroleum, natural gas, biofuels, chemicals, secondary aluminum and a variety of other manufacturing sectors.

  • Environmental Law Counsel, P.C. is an environmental law firm founded by a seasoned environmental lawyer committed to providing the highest quality environmental law expertise to clients who are building, growing and operating businesses.

    Located in Chicago, ELC’s experience includes representing large and small companies across the country in a wide array of business sectors, from waste management, healthcare, and real estate to electricity, petroleum, natural gas, biofuels, chemicals, secondary aluminum and a variety of other manufacturing sectors.

  • Environmental Law Counsel, P.C. is an environmental law firm founded by a seasoned environmental lawyer committed to providing the highest quality environmental law expertise to clients who are building, growing and operating businesses.

    Located in Chicago, ELC’s experience includes representing large and small companies across the country in a wide array of business sectors, from waste management, healthcare, and real estate to electricity, petroleum, natural gas, biofuels, chemicals, secondary aluminum and a variety of other manufacturing sectors.

  • Environmental Law Counsel, P.C. is an environmental law firm founded by a seasoned environmental lawyer committed to providing the highest quality environmental law expertise to clients who are building, growing and operating businesses.

    Located in Chicago, ELC’s experience includes representing large and small companies across the country in a wide array of business sectors, from waste management, healthcare, and real estate to electricity, petroleum, natural gas, biofuels, chemicals, secondary aluminum and a variety of other manufacturing sectors.

  • Environmental Law Counsel, P.C. is an environmental law firm founded by a seasoned environmental lawyer committed to providing the highest quality environmental law expertise to clients who are building, growing and operating businesses.

    Located in Chicago, ELC’s experience includes representing large and small companies across the country in a wide array of business sectors, from waste management, healthcare, and real estate to electricity, petroleum, natural gas, biofuels, chemicals, secondary aluminum and a variety of other manufacturing sectors.

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About Us

After over 30 years of environmental law experience in government and major law firms, ELC founder Patricia Sharkey left the big firm world to establish a new model for expert, cost effective environmental legal services...
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Practices

Our practice focuses on complex air, water and hazardous waste permitting and enforcement defense, innovative technology and energy projects, and landfill and contaminated property matters...
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Hot Topics

The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals gave the oil and gas industry – and perhaps many other sectors — an unexpected victory by remanding for reconsideration EPA’s Clean Air Act “single source” determination for Summit Petroleum Corporation....
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Environmental Law Counsel is committed to providing high quality legal expertise within a small law firm model -- at reasonable rates and with the flexibility to respond to client needs..”
-Pat Sharkey