Carol is the managing partner of 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.

• 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 (since 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.
  
  American College of Environmental Lawyers Fellow, since 2019
  
  Main Line Today “Top Lawyer” listing (environmental law), since 2019
  
  
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“Air Regulatory Update” presented at the Chemistry Council of New Jersey Environment Committee Meeting in Princeton, NJ, February 25, 2020

“Internal Environmental Auditing:  Best Practices for the Audit Process & Protecting the Findings” presented at the Chemistry Council of New Jersey’s Plant Operations Management Workshop, Princeton, NJ, December 4, 2019

“Air Regulatory Update” presented at the Chemistry Council of New Jersey Environment Committee Meeting in Fairfield, NJ, February 26, 2019

“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