Rustin J. Kimmell

Mr. Kimmell joined the environmental department as an associate.  He had been working as a legal intern for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region VII, in the Office of Regional Counsel since October, 2005, assisting the regional counsel attorneys in preparing administrative, judicial and criminal cases against regulated entities. His general responsibilities included developing legal strategies for negotiating, litigating and enforcing the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (Superfund) and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).

Mr. Kimmell was a summer law clerk in 2005 for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He incorporated his knowledge of environmental statutes, environmental regulations, and administrative law to assist in developing and prosecuting multimedia enforcement cases and implementation of the EPA’s audit policy to ensure compliance with environmental statutes. His previous experience includes being a legal intern for the Legal Services for Students at the University of Kansas in 2004-2005.

Mr. Kimmell’s professional experience includes working as a consultant with landowners whose property was located within oil and gas exploration project areas; working as a project manager for approximately 15 contaminated soil and groundwater sites throughout Kansas; working as a research assistant conducting original research to identify methods for reduction of nutrient losses in agricultural runoff water; and worked as a biological science technician collecting and analyzing surface water samples and assisting in production of surface water quality reports.

Court Memberships

• Kansas
• Missouri
• Nebraska

Publications

• Author, The “Public Use” Requirements of the 5th Amendment and Eminent Domain, University of Kansas School of Law, Public Policy Clinic
• Author, Operational Concerns Associated with the Implementation of Biometrics for Border Protection Compared to the Use of Biometrics for Classical Criminal Investigations, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary
• Co-author, Effect of the Tillage and Phosphorus Placement on Phosphorus Runoff Losses in a Grain Sorgham - Soybean Rotation, Journal of Environmental Quality. 30:1324-1330