Pamela A. Baker
Shareholder
803.753.3215 Direct803.799.9800 Main
803.933.1507 Direct Fax
803.753.3278 Main Fax
pbaker@mcnair.net
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Columbia, SC Office
1221 Main Street
Suite 1800
Columbia, SC 29201 Assistant
Nicole Suarez
nsuarez@mcnair.net
803.753.3353 Direct
Overview
Pam is a shareholder with the firm’s environmental practice where she assists with the defense of state and federal environmental enforcement actions related to compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Clean Air Act (CAA), Clean Water Act (CWA), and other environmental and health statutes and regulations. She advises energy clients on the full range of environmental regulations affecting energy production, including the development and operation of renewable energy projects. She also provides counsel in complex Comprehensive Environmental Response and Liability Act (CERCLA) negotiations with the EPA and the State, as well as in matters related to brownfield redevelopment and landfill compliance.
Pam's practice also involves representing clients before the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) in negotiating air and water permits, voluntary cleanup contracts, and renewable/sustainable energy project permits. Pam routinely appears before the South Carolina Administrative Law Court representing clients in environmental permitting appeals.
- Council Member, South Carolina Bar, Environmental and Natural Resources Section
- Member, University of South Carolina Board of Visitors
- Member, South Carolina Women Lawyers Association
- Member, Columbia Chapter of The Links, Inc.
- Treasurer (2006-2008)
- Board Member, South Carolina Bar Foundation (2006-2012)
- Board Member, Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands
- Commissioner, South Carolina Commission on Women (2009-2012)
- Board Member, Leadership South Carolina Board of Trustees (2010-2014)
- Vice Chair (2012-2014)
- Member, John Belton O’Neall Inn of Court
- President (2005-2006)
- Board Member, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Columbia
- Named, The Best Lawyers in America© (2017-2019)
- Graduate, Liberty Fellowship (2012)
- Named, Legal Elite of the Midlands, Columbia Business Monthly (2015)
- Graduate, Leadership South Carolina (2010)
- Order of the Coif
- Order of Wig and Robe
- Associate Student Works Editor, South Carolina Law Review (2000)