Ken Komoroski is a partner in the greater Pittsburgh area (Washington County) office of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. He has active oil & gas and environmental practices. In his oil & gas practice, he represents producers of oil and gas and pipeline companies in a variety of areas including land use and zoning, permitting, environmental, water usage, wastewater treatment, litigation and local ordinances.

Ken has represented oil and gas exploration and production and midstream companies in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, New York and Maryland for more than twenty years. He has played a key role over the past seven years with the development of the Marcellus and Utica Shales.

Ken's environmental practice involves permitting, negotiation of compliance issues with state and federal environmental agencies, representation of businesses before environmental boards, and the assessment and negotiation of environmental issues on behalf of buyers and sellers of industrial properties.

He has negotiated permitting and/or compliance matters with, among others, EPA headquarters and Regions I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VIII and IX; and state agencies in Pennsylvania; West Virginia; Ohio; New Jersey; Texas; Indiana; Illinois; Kentucky; New York, Connecticut, Colorado, California, Arkansas, South Carolina and Florida.

Ken was previously employed by a major chemical company, where he was the supervisor of waste programs. Subsequently, he was the operations foreman of the wastewater treatment unit at a large chemical production facility, and was later a compliance specialist at the plant, handling air, water and waste issues.

Oil & Gas:

• Oil and gas producers and trade associations:
  • Various litigation relating to preemption and land use issues
  • Wide variety of regulatory and permitting issues
• Oil and gas producers:
  • Lease and royalty disputes
  • Zoning changes and use approvals for a natural gas processing plant
  • Water, wasterwater, air and solid waste issues in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio and New York
• Service as air counsel for a major interstate gas pipeline and for a multinational glass and chemical company, working through the regulatory processes under the Clean Air Act

Environmental:

• Companies selling, purchasing and redeveloping old and previously contaminated industrial sites in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Illinois, North Carolina, New York, Indiana, and other states, including participation in voluntary cleanup programs
• Electric generation projects through the development and regulatory process, including successful defense of third-party challenges to air, water and other permits
• Specialty chemical manufacturers with regard to groundwater contamination and off-site disposal issues
• Major integrated steel manufacturing company with operations in several states for air, water and waste issues and in response to an EPA multi-media audit
• Large company with wood treating, coal tar refining and coke operations in several states for air, water and waste issues
• Three coke manufacturers for all federal and state environmental matters
• Company proposing to install a large electric power transmission line
• Large chemical manufacturing concern in response to an EPA multi-media audit
• Regional economic development organization in Clean Air Act lawsuits
• Major electric generating facility operator at a large metals manufacturing location in Indiana
• Chemical manufacturer for air issues including RACT and Title V

• Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission (ORSANCO) 
  • Pollution Control Standards Committee, Chairman (Federal Commissioner appointed by President George W. Bush, May 2003)
  • Currently Secretary/Treasurer and Vice-Chair elect
• Marcellus Shale Coalition
• American Iron and Steel Institute
• American Coke and Coal Chemicals Institute
• Environmental Protection Agency (assisted EPA as an organizer of Brownfields 1999 - 2011)
• Industrial Site Recycling Conference (IRSC)
  • Chair, 1997
  • Vice-Chairman, 1996
• Pennsylvania Environmental Council, Board Member (2000 – 2007)
  • Legislative Committee, Board Member & Chair
• Southwestern Pennsylvania Amenities Planning Committee
• Southwestern Pennsylvania Land Use Planning Commission, Co-chair
• Southwestern Pennsylvania Sewer and Infrastructure Committee
• American Bar Association
• Pennsylvania Bar Association
• Allegheny County Bar Association

• Co-author, “Municipal Mischief in the Marcellus: Challenging Restrictive Local Ordinances, ”Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund Oil & Gas Alert," December 3, 2010
• Co-author with Michael J.R. Schalk and James C. Swetz, “Understanding Possible Residual Waste Management Responsibilities That May Be Asserted Against Oil and Gas Operators,” IOGA Monthly Newsletter, December 2008

• EPA Enforcement and Permitting Initiatives: New Ways of Using Old Rules to Regulate Coke Industry,” American Coke and Chemicals Institute (MESH), Chicago, IL, April 17, 2008
• American Iron and Steel Institute Committee on Environment, Chicago, IL, January 31 - February 1, 2007
• American Coke and Chemicals Institute Spring Manufacturing, Environmental, Safety and Health (MESH) Committee Meeting , Detroit, MI, May 3 - 4, 2007
• IOGA of Pennsylvania Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, May 16 - 17, 2007

1988 - J.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Law
1977 - B.S., Environmental Engineering, Water and Wastewater Treatment Specialization, Pennsylvania State University

Ken is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, Bar of Ohio, Bar of Pennsylvania and the Bar of West Virginia.

Ken enjoys spending time with his family and is an avid bass fisherman and outdoorsman.

Ken recruited and oversaw the 2005 Bassmaster Classic and the 2009 Forrest Wood Cup professional bass tournaments on the Three Rivers.