Practice areas
Bar & Court Admissions
- Pennsylvania
- New Jersey
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Education
University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1996
College of the Holy Cross, B.A., cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1993
Professional & Community Activities
University of Pennsylvania School of Law
- Lecturer-in-law (2007-present)
Pennsylvania Environmental Council
- Chair, Board of Directors, 2014 to present
- Vice-Chair, Board of Directors, 2012-2014
- Board of Directors, since 2002
Haverford Township Environmental Advisory Committee (EAC), 2006-2012
Friends of Lemon Hill
- Board of Directors, since 1999
- Chair, Board of Directors, since 2011
Support Center for Child Advocates
- Volunteer attorney, since 2007
Carol is a partner with Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox LLP, working in the firm's complex industrial and regulatory practices. She has worked with a broad range of industrial clients in the manufacturing, energy and waste management sectors. Carol counsels clients on a wide variety of environmental issues, including permitting, compliance and enforcement matters related to air emissions, storage tanks, stormwater, wastewater, and hazardous and non-hazardous waste. She has assisted clients with day-to-day compliance, environmental auditing, permit appeals, and defense of agency enforcement actions. She has represented clients before the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board, the New Jersey Office of Administrative Law, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Appeals Board, and the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals.
Carol serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council, and as the Chair of the Friends of Lemon Hill. She has been a Lecturer-in-law at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law since 2007. Carol and her husband Bernie live in Haverford with their four children.
Some of Carol's representative matters include the following:
- Regulatory compliance counseling for clients in a wide variety of industrial sectors, including printing and surface coating, chemical manufacturing, waste management, food manufacturing, scrap metal recycling, inks and pigments manufacturing, oil and gas distribution, specialty metal products manufacturing, glass manufacturing, and paperboard manufacturing;
- Environmental audits and self-disclosures to both EPA and state agencies in the areas of air regulatory compliance, release reporting, and community right-to-know reporting;
- Preparation of air permit applications, negotiation of draft permit conditions, and appeals of air permits before both the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board and the New Jersey Office of Legal Affairs; and
- Appeal, negotiation, and settlement of air enforcement actions in various states and before the Environmental Protection Agency.
- Review and comment with respect to proposed rulemaking at the state and federal level, and pursuing judicial and administrative challenges of Agency rulemakings.
Honors & Awards
- Chambers USA - America's Leading Lawyers for Business listing (environmental law), since 2011. The Chambers list is issued by Chambers and Partners. Click here to view the selection methodology.
- The Best Lawyers® in America listing (environmental law/energy regulatory law), since 2013. The Best Lawyers list is issued by Woodward/White Inc. Click here to view the selection methodology.
Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Top 100 List for Philadelphia (2018); Top 50: Women Pennsylvania Super Lawyers listing, since 2017; Environmental law, since 2012; "Rising Star" listing (environmental law), 2005- 2008 and 2010-2011; and New Jersey Super Lawyers listing (environmental law), 2009-2011. The Super Lawyers list is issued by Thomson Reuters. Click here to view the selection methodology. - No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey or any other jurisdiction.
Press Releases
- August 15, 201814 Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox Attorneys Included in Best Lawyers 2019
- July 19, 2018Permitting – Enforcement – Modeling – Continuous Monitoring
- May 21, 2018McCabe, Moshang and Schiller Included in Top 50: 2018 Women Pennsylvania Super Lawyers; McCabe Included on Top 100 List for Philadelphia
- May 14, 2018
- August 15, 2017
- May 31, 2017
- May 22, 201770 Percent of the Firm Included in Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Listing
- April 26, 2017
- April 20, 2017
- August 18, 2016
- May 31, 2016
- April 21, 2016
- March 1, 2016With Speaking Engagements by Partners Joseph M. Manko, Bart E. Cassidy, Jonathan E. Rinde and Carol F. McCabe
- October 20, 2015
- August 24, 2015
- May 19, 2015
- March 23, 2015
- November 4, 2014
- May 27, 2014
- April 22, 2014
- August 22, 2013
- June 3, 2013The Tenth Consecutive Year Firm Recognized in Top Tier of Environmental Law
- May 20, 2013
- September 4, 2012
- May 29, 2012
- March 29, 2012
- March 20, 2012
- October 12, 2011
- June 20, 2011
- May 23, 2011
- August 26, 2010
- June 28, 2010
- June 23, 2010
- May 27, 2010
- April 25, 2010
- June 17, 2009
Seminars & Speaking Engagements
“What’s in the Air? Permitting-Enforcement-Modeling-Continuous Monitoring” presented by MGKF and ALL4, Bala Cynwyd, PA, July 17, 2018
"The Pennsylvania Environmental Rights Amendment: Are You Ready for a New ERA?" presented by MGKF, Bala Cynwyd, PA, February 27, 2018
"Planners' Roundtable" presented at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute's Environmental Law Forum in Harrisburg, April 5, 2017
"Green & the New Regime: The Economic & Environmental Impacts of a Trump Administration" presented by MGKF, Bala Cynwyd, PA, February 7, 2017
"Pitfalls and Practice Pointers: Negotiating Contracts with Consultants and Contractors," presented at the 2016 In-House Counsel Conference of the Association of Corporate Counsel Greater Philadelphia, April 19, 2016.
"Environmental Compliance Issues in Business Transactions" presented at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute's 21st Annual Business Lawyers Institute in Philadelphia, PA, November 5, 2015
"Evaluating Facility Changes Against Potential NSR Triggers - Is It Growth, Efficiency, Debottlenecking, or Merely Avoiding Breakdown?" presented at the Annual Meeting of the Food & Beverage Environmental Conference (FBEC) in Point Clear, AL, March 24, 2015
2013 Environmental Law Forum presented by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute in Harrisburg, PA, April 2013
"RICE MACT: From the Legal Perspectives," sponsored by the 2012 Mid-Atlantic Air and Waste Management Association , November 2012
2012 Environmental Law Forum presented by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute in Harrisburg, PA, March 2012
"EPA's New Boiler Rules: What's Next for Owners and Operators?," a webinar presented for Engineered Systems, March 6, 2012
"How Your Environmental, Health and Safety Department Can Add Value to the Company's Bottom Line," presented at the Delaware Valley Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel's In-House Counsel Environmental, Health & Safety Institute in Philadelphia, PA, October 12, 2011
"EPA's New Boiler MACT and Area Source Rules," a telebriefing sponsored by Law Seminar International, September 9, 2010
"The New Industrial Boiler MACT," presented at the summer meeting of the American Boiler Manufacturers Association in Santa Ana Pueblo, NM, June 25, 2010
"Air Update," presented at the 15th Annual Environmental Law Forum sponsored by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, April 22, 2010
Media Coverage
- April 21, 2016Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox Ranked in Top 20 Ceiling SmashersLaw360
Special Alerts
- January 14, 2019
- January 14, 2019
- January 14, 2019
- April 2, 2018
- January 18, 2018
- January 18, 2018
- December 11, 2017
- January 23, 2017
- January 22, 2017
- September 19, 2016
- January 25, 2016
- January 25, 2016
- June 23, 2015
- July 3, 2014
- June 24, 2013
- May 8, 2010
- May 8, 2010
- April 27, 2010
- December 8, 2009
- May 8, 2009
- May 4, 2009
- November 6, 2008
- May 16, 2008
- May 16, 2008
- August 16, 2007
- August 16, 2007
- May 16, 2007
- May 16, 2007
- January 16, 2007
Articles
- November 21, 2018New Jersey Law Journal
- January 11, 2018The Legal Intelligencer
- December 7, 2017Global, National and Local Challenges and OpportunitiesDecember 2017 issue of EM Magazine
- January 13, 2017The Legal Intelligencer
- January 8, 2016The Legal Intelligencer
- September 11, 2014The Legal Intelligencer
- April 15, 2014co-authored by members of the MGKF Air Quality Practice GroupNew Jersey Environmental Law Handbook (Eighth Edition)
- April 8, 2011The Legal Intelligencer
- March 1, 2011Association of Corporate Counsel's "Green-house Counsel"
- January 4, 2010Association of Corporate Counsel's "Green-house Counsel"
- April 10, 2009Mid Atlantic Real Estate Journal
- July 19, 2007The Legal Intelligencer
- January 19, 2006The Legal Intelligencer