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Emory University
(J.D., 2001)
Northwestern University
(B.A., 1997)
Georgia
Chambers USA
Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for Environmental Law and Environmental Litigation (2016–Present)
Jonathan Wells is an environmental regulatory and energy lawyer with extensive litigation and transactional expertise. For almost twenty-five years, he has sought to resolve clients’ complex environmental issues through zealous representation and creative approaches. Clients include renewable energy providers and electric utilities, manufacturers, real estate developers, landfill owners, and local governments.
In the energy space, Jonathan has successfully obtained permitting and local zoning approvals for more than one gigawatt of solar energy projects in Georgia over the last ten years. He has also represented electrical utilities in the acquisition of existing generating assets as well as financing for the construction of the first new nuclear units in the United States in over thirty years.
In the redevelopment space, Jonathan is the lead environmental lawyer for the $1 billion redevelopment of Atlanta’s underutilized “Gulch” area into Centennial Yards. He also routinely counsels mixed-use real estate developers in utilizing Brownfields statutes throughout the Southeast.
His regulatory and litigation experience also includes the defense of clients in federal and state civil and criminal enforcement proceedings brought by EPA and state environmental agencies, compliance counseling, hazardous site cleanups, and toxic tort litigation. Jonathan’s experience spans virtually every federal environmental statute – from RCRA, CERCLA, and the Clean Water Act, to the Clean Air Act and analogous state regulatory schemes.
