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Jennifer J. Cave

Jennifer Cave has over 20 years of experience working as an environmental consultant and attorney across the United States. Serving as Chair of the firm's Environmental, Energy & Sustainability Service Group, she works closely with businesses to ensure compliance with local, state, and federal environmental laws and regulations. Ms. Cave advises clients on air quality, storm water, wastewater, and solid and hazardous waste permitting and compliance requirements and defends clients in administrative, civil, and criminal enforcement actions. Ms. Cave also regularly counsels equipment manufacturers on the importation and sale of mobile sources under the Clean Air Act and guides clients through transactions involving the purchase and sale of contaminated properties.

Recent News, Articles & Speaking Engagements

Know Your Obligations: A Survey of Environmental Permitting and Reporting Requirements

Speaker, 27th Annual Kentucky Environmental Permitting and Reporting Conference, Lexington, Ky., July 23, 2024

Licensing Opportunities in Kentucky: Medical Cannabis & Hemp

Webinar speaker, presented by Vicente, LLP, April 30, 2024

I'm Supposed to Report That? (Understanding and Preparing for Expanded Reporting under the Proposed Air Emissions Reporting Rule)

Kentucky Environmental Conference 2024, Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, Lexington, Ky., March 26-27, 2024

Information Overload? A Look Back at the Biggest Environmental Cases and Regulatory Actions of 2023

Kentucky Environmental Conference 2024, Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, Lexington, Ky., March 26-27, 2024

Stites & Harbison Names New Enviro Chair

By Emma Cueto, Law360.com, February 13, 2024

People on the Move: Jennifer J. Cave

by editor, Louisville Business First, February 9, 2024

EPA Finalizes Long-Awaited PFAS Reporting Rule

Responding to Environmental Conditions Resulting from Recent Tornadoes, Floods, and Lightning Strikes (It Can Happen to You too….)

co-speaker, 26th Annual Kentucky Environmental Permitting and Reporting Conference, Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, August 9-10, 2023

A Vapor Mitigation Case Study Under the Brownfields Redevelopment Program

co-speaker, 26th Annual Kentucky Environmental Permitting and Reporting Conference, Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, August 9-10, 2023

Kentucky Becomes 38th State to Legalize the Use of Medical Cannabis

Latest Trends in Inspections, Enforcement, and EJ

Speaker, 21st Annual Kentucky Environmental Conference, Lexington, KY, March 9-10, 2023

Vapor Mitigation Case Study

co-speaker, 2022 Kentucky Commercial Real Estate Conference, October 18, 2022

Beshear announces 17 members of Team Kentucky Medical Cannabis Advisory Committee

by staff writer, Northern Kentucky Tribune, June 15, 2022

Permitted Vices: Ordinary and Extraordinary Requirements for Expanding Industries

Panelist, Virtual SEER 28th Fall Conference: Webinar Series, American Bar Association, October 21, 2020

20 People to Know in Law

Louisville Business First, May 11, 2020

New and Emerging Issues: Chemical Regulatory Developments, U.S. EPA's Implementation of the Amended Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and Coping with California Proposition 65

29th Annual Business & Industry's Sustainability & Environmental, Health and Safety Symposium, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 24-25, 2020

Information You Need on the COVID-19 Coronavirus

Expansions and New Facilities - Permit Planning and Strategies to Stay on Track

22nd Annual Kentucky Environmental Permitting and Reporting Conference, Kentucky Chamber, Lexington, KY, August 14-15, 2019

Odors - Air Quality Issues Beyond the Four Corners of Your Permit

22nd Annual Kentucky Environmental Permitting and Reporting Conference, Kentucky Chamber, Lexington, KY, August 14-15, 2019

Best Practices to Avoid Environmental Enforcement in an U.S. EPA Era of Power Rebalance

28th Annual Business & Industry's Sustainability & Environmental, Health and Safety Symposium, Cincinnati, OH, March 26, 2019

Environmental Enforcement - What You Need to Know in 2019

17th Annual Kentucky Environmental Conference, Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, Lexington, KY, March 14-15, 2019

The X Factor . . . Pathways to Plant Security in the New Millennium

27th Annual Business and Industry's Sustainability and Environmental, Health & Safety Symposium, Cincinnati, OH, March 27-28, 2018

Caveat Emptor? Strategies to Avoid Environmental Enforcement in a New U.S. EPA Era

27th Annual Business and Industry's Sustainability and Environmental, Health & Safety Symposium, Cincinnati, OH, March 27-28, 2018

Developments in Federal and Kentucky Environmental Law

Engineering Law and Ethics, HalfMoon Seminars, Lexington, KY, January 18, 2018

New U.S. EPA Rules to Place Restrictions on Health Care Industry Wastes

Bar Briefs, Louisville Bar Association, November 2017

New guidelines for dental offices

Medical News, August 22, 2017

Shaking the Dust Off Air Toxics in Kentucky

20th Annual Kentucky Environmental Permitting and Reporting Conference, Lexington, KY, August 10-11, 2017

What's New for the Environment? - A Peek at the 2017 Regular Session

(DO Not) Go Directly to Jail . . . Strategies for Avoiding State and Federal Environmental Enforcement

28th Annual Sustainabilityand Environmental, Health & Safety Symposium, Cincinnati, OH, March 2017

New EPA Risk Management Plan Amendments Face 'Trumped' Future

Sustainability Best Practices: Sustainable Materials Management in Manufacturing

28th Annual Sustainabilityand Environmental, Health & Safety Symposium, Cincinnati, OH, March 2017

EHS Basics 101: Environmental Regulatory Updates & Compliance Strategies

28th Annual Sustainabilityand Environmental, Health & Safety Symposium, Cincinnati, OH, March 2017

The Drone Wars: Environmental Edition

Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! (Forms and Portals and Demand Response, Oh My!)

Kentucky Chamber of Commerce 19th Annual Kentucky Environmental Permitting and Reporting Conference, Lexington, KY August 10-11, 2016

Use of EPA's eDisclosure Portal in Environmental Audits

Kentucky Chamber of Commerce 19th Annual Kentucky Environmental Permitting and Reporting Conference, Lexington, KY, August 10-11, 2016

Current Trends in Federal and Ohio Environmental Enforcement

Manufacturers' Education Council 25th Annual Business and Industry's Sustainability and Environmental, Health and Safety Symposium, Cincinnati, OH, March 22, 2016

Decoding the Hazardous Waste Generator Improvements Rule

Kentucky Chamber of Commerce 14th Annual Kentucky Environmental Conference, Lexington, KY, February 9, 2016

Waste Not; Want Not

Kentucky Chamber of Commerce 18th Annual Kentucky Environmental Permitting and Reporting Conference, Lexington, KY, August 26, 2015

Basics: Environmental Regulations, Regulatory Updates & Compliance Strategies

Manufacturers' Education Council 24th Annual Business and Industry's Sustainability and Environmental, Health and Safety Symposium, Cincinnati, OH, March 24, 2015

Current Trends in Indiana & Kentucky Environmental Enforcement

Manufacturers' Education Council 24th Annual Business and Industry's Sustainability and Environmental, Health and Safety Symposium, Cincinnati, OH, March 24, 2015

The End of Life: Coal-Fired Power Plant Closure Factors & Implementation

18th Annual Energy, Utility, and Environment Conference, San Diego, CA, February 16, 2015

Trends in Environmental Enforcement and Startup, Shutdown, Malfunction Update

Kentucky Chamber of Commerce 13th Annual Kentucky Environmental Conference, Lexington, KY, February 10, 2015

Current Trends in Federal Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio Environmental Enforcement

Manufacturer's Education Council 23rd Annual Business and Industry's Sustainability and Environmental, Health and Safety Symposium, Cincinnati, OH, March 18, 2014

Environmental Implications for Plan Shutdowns

Kentucky Chamber of Commerce 17th Annualo Kentucky Environmental Permitting and Reporting Conference, Lexington, KY, August 19, 2014

SCOTUS 13-14 Environmental Case Review

Kentucky Chamber of Commerce 12th Annual Kentucky Environmental Conference, Lexington, KY, February 21, 2014
Recent Assignments
Bar Admissions
Kentucky
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington
Washington
Firm Leadership

Environmental, Energy & Sustainability Service Group, Chair (2024-present)

Louisville Office Recruiting Committee, Member

Memberships
Kentucky Bar Association, Environmental, Energy, and Resources Law Section
Louisville Bar Association
Air & Waste Management Association
Community Involvement

Kentucky Horse Park Commission (2023-27)

Greater Louisville, Inc., Environment and Energy Committee, Chair

Greater Louisville, Inc., Public Policy Committee

Team Kentucky Medical Cannabis Advisory Board (2022-present)

Louisville Regional Science and Engineering Fair, Vice President of Legal & Business Affairs (2018-21)

Kentucky Air and Waste Management Association, Board of Directors

Louisville Air Pollution Control District Multi-Pollutant Stakeholder Group

Women Environmental Leaders of Louisville (WELL), Co-Founder

Leadership Louisville, Class of 2019

Education
More Than Stites & Harbison

Ms. Cave joined the firm after working as an environmental consultant specializing in due diligence investigations and hazardous waste compliance in New England and the Pacific Northwest. In the past, Ms. Cave has served on the Board of Directors of the Lexington Humane Society, the Louisville Energy Alliance, and the KMAC Museum and the Steering Committee of Leadership Lexington. In 2017, she co-founded Women Environmental Leaders of Louisville (WELL), a networking group of over 100 women working in the environmental, health and safety, and sustainability fields in Louisville. Ms. Cave is an avid horsewoman who enjoys competing in the sport of eventing. She also assists her two rescue dogs, Mason and Malcolm, with managing the family farm in Shelby County.

Accolades

Martindale-Hubbell® AV-Preeminent® Peer Review Rated

ChambersUSA, "America's Leading Lawyers for Business," Environment, Natural Resources & Utilities: Environment (2021-23)

Best Lawyers in America®, Environmental Law (2017-24)

Best Lawyers in America®, Louisville Area Lawyer of the Year for Environmental Law (2020)

Kentucky Super Lawyers®, Rising Stars (2013-16)

Business First of Louisville, 20 People to Know in Law (2020)

Leadership Lexington Distinguished Leader Award (2013)

The Women We Admire, Top 100 Women Leaders in Law of 2021

MH AV 2024 300
Cave Jennifer Chambers2023
Cave Best Lawyers2024
Cave Suplaw
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Events

Forever Chemicals: What does your company need to know and do

Time: 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

WEBINAR

Forever Chemicals: What does your company need to know and do. Join us for this four-part complimentary webinar that is designed for decisions makers who do not have degrees in chemistry or environmental science - but need practical, actionable advice.

Jennifer J. Cave , John L. Tate , Robert M. Connolly , Whitney Frazier Watt , Neil E. Barton , and Edward H. Stopher October 03, 2024
Client Alerts

Impacts of the Demise of Chevron Deference on Environmental Law

On June 28, 2024, in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, 144 S.Ct. 2244 (2024), the Supreme Court overruled its 1984 Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. NRDC, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984), decision and the legal doctrine of Chevron deference with it. In doing away with Chevron deference, the Court has broken from the accepted regulatory landscape of the last 40 years, which will have dramatic effects on environmental law for decades to come. Environmental attorney Jennifer Cave and summer associate Noah S. Dunaway take a look the Court’s decision and its impacts on regulated entities, beginning with an analysis of what Chevron deference was in this Stites & Harbison Client Alert.

by Jennifer J. Cave and Noah S. Dunaway, 2024 Summer Associate September 30, 2024
Press Releases

Stites & Harbison, PLLC Lawyers Named to 2025 Best Lawyers® Publications

Stites & Harbison, PLLC is pleased to announce that 97 of its lawyers are included in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence according to the publication. Additionally, 12 Stites & Harbison attorneys are named as “Lawyer of the Year” and 30 attorneys are recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America, which recognizes attorneys early in their careers for outstanding professional excellence in private practice in the United States.

by Stites & Harbison, PLLC August 16, 2024
Press Releases

Chambers USA Honors 25 Stites & Harbison Attorneys for 2024

LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Chambers USA selected 25 Stites & Harbison, PLLC attorneys in Kentucky and Tennessee for inclusion in their 2024 guide. The Chambers USA guide ranks the top law firms and leading attorneys in the United States.

by Stites & Harbison, PLLC June 07, 2024
Client Alerts

Governor Beshear Signs Measure to Begin Medical Cannabis Licensing Six Months Ahead of Schedule

On April 17, 2024, Governor Andy Beshear signed House Bill 829 (“HB 829”) into law amending aspects of the Commonwealth’s budding Medical Cannabis Program (“Program”). Among other provisions, HB 829 expedites the licensing process for medical cannabis businesses. Jennifer Cave takes a look at the bill in this Stites & Harbison Client Alert.

by Jennifer J. Cave April 29, 2024
Events

22nd Annual Kentucky Environmental Conference

Date: 3/26/24 - 3/27/24

Embassy Suites by Hilton, Lexington/UK Coldstream, 1801 Newtown Pike, Lexington, Kentucky 40511

Jennifer Cave and Ken Gish will be speakers at this year's Kentucky Chamber of Commerce 22nd Annual Kentucky Environmental Conference to be held March 26-27 in Lexington, Ky.

Jennifer J. Cave and Kenneth J. Gish Jr. February 26, 2024
Press Releases

Jennifer Cave Appointed Chair of Stites & Harbison's Environmental, Energy & Sustainability Service Group

LOUISVILLE, Ky. —Stites & Harbison, PLLC is pleased to announce that attorney Jennifer J. Cave has been appointed Chair of the firm’s Environmental, Energy & Sustainability Service Group.

by Stites & Harbison, PLLC February 09, 2024
Client Alerts

Kentucky Begins Implementation and Possible Expansion of Medical Cannabis Program

Governor Andy Beshear began his second term by announcing significant progress towards the full implementation of the Kentucky Medical Cannabis Program (KMCP), Senate Bill 47. The KMCP legalized marijuana for medicinal use in the Commonwealth for qualifying patients with a qualifying medical condition. By law, the program goes into effect on January 1, 2025. Jennifer Cave takes a look at what this means in this Stites & Harbison Client Alert.

by Jennifer J. Cave January 08, 2024