Martin Levy

Guiding energy transition and advanced technology projects through government funding opportunities, negotiations, and subsequent compliance.

• Representing a national non-profit organization in proposal development efforts, award negotiations, and implementation efforts related to a federal grant.
• Representing a leading industrial company in proposal development efforts, award negotiations, and implementation and compliance requirements under a Department of Energy cooperative agreement.
• Advising a leading semiconductor company on a CHIPS and Science Act funding application, including National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance, related community engagement, and environmental mitigation strategies.
• Advising an advanced battery technology company on the development of a successful proposal for a closed-loop cathode active material production facility under the DOE’s Battery Materials Processing and Battery Manufacturing Grant Program.
• Representing an original equipment manufacturer in navigating legal and regulatory issues related to the U.S. Postal Service’s efforts to produce custom-built zero- and low-emission trucks.

Assisting clients with increasingly stringent greenhouse gas regulatory measures that push towards decarbonization targets.

• Representing power companies and coalition of power companies in providing comments on Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rulemakings, including supporting the agency’s approach to setting power-sector greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards based on the application of carbon capture & storage (CCS) and clean hydrogen technologies, as well as comments in support of EPA’s proposals to reduce GHG emissions from light-, medium, and heavy-duty vehicles in model years 2027 and beyond.
• Representing coalition of advanced energy interests and power companies as respondent-intervenors in support of EPA in litigation challenging EPA’s revised GHG standards for light-duty vehicles and EPA’s reinstatement of a waiver of federal preemption allowing California to enforce its own GHG and zero emission vehicle standards for light-duty vehicles.
• Assisting an international airline on legislative and regulatory strategies to advance U.S. implementation of the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) and promote the use of sustainable aviation fuels.