Mackenzie’s practice includes both litigation and regulatory matters arising under FIFRA, the Clean Water Act, and related environmental laws.
She is passionate about conserving air, water, wildlife, and land for future generations, and enjoys helping clients navigate and enforce the detailed framework of environmental law because she believes compliance is key to preventing adverse impacts to the environment.
Mackenzie is a co-chair of Beveridge & Diamond’s Industrial Hemp & Cannabis industry team. She advises clients, and regularly writes and presents, on federal and state environmental regulations impacting this thriving industry.
Under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), Mackenzie represents pesticide companies in data compensation arbitrations, focusing on defending the rights of data owners against follow-on registrants of pesticides. She has also worked extensively with task forces comprised of national and multinational companies of all sizes that operate as joint ventures or limited liability companies to generate data and other information to meet government requirements under FIFRA.
Among the wide range of issues under the Clean Water Act that Mackenzie has handled are assisting companies with responses to Clean Water Act Section 308 information requests and Clean Water Act Section 404 compensatory mitigation requirements.
Mackenzie also defends public utilities against toxic tort claims. She was part of the team that obtained a defense judgment after a three-week trial regarding claims alleging that the client supplied corrosive water to apartment buildings. The case, Cormier v. D.C. WASA, 2011 D.C. Super. Lexis 7, 84 A.3d 492 (2013), was successfully upheld on appeal.
More Legal and Business Bylines From Mackenzie S. Schoonmaker
- New York Makes It Easier to Identify Potential Environmental Justice Communities - (Posted On Tuesday, May 28, 2019)
- Nipped in the Bud: Massachusetts Regulators Send Strong Message to Cannabis Industry About Using Unapproved Pesticides On Cannabis Plants - (Posted On Friday, December 28, 2018)
- 2018 Farm Bill Legalizes Industrial Hemp - (Posted On Wednesday, December 26, 2018)
- New York State Attorney General Orders Companies to Stop Making Anti-Zika Claims In Connection with Minimum Risk Pesticides and Pesticide Devices - (Posted On Monday, August 08, 2016)
- Supreme Court Finds Plausible Showing of Amount in Controversy Sufficient to Remove Action - (Posted On Tuesday, February 17, 2015)
- North Carolina’s Amended Repose Law Fails to Save Barred Toxic Tort Claim - (Posted On Tuesday, February 17, 2015)
- Washington Federal Court Finds Nuisance Claims Displaced by CERCLA - (Posted On Tuesday, February 17, 2015)
- Arkansas Federal Court Denies Class Certification in Property Damage Suit - (Posted On Monday, February 16, 2015)
- Missouri Federal Court Cuts Claims in Pipeline Property Damage Action - (Posted On Monday, February 16, 2015)
- Louisiana Federal Court Excludes “Every Exposure” Testimony - (Posted On Monday, February 16, 2015)