Bob Wyman is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Latham & Watkins and is the firm's Global Co-Chair of the Climate Change Practice Group. Mr. Wyman's experience includes practicing in the areas of air quality, climate change, energy and transportation. He represents businesses and trade associations in a wide variety of sectors (e.g., aerospace, automotive, cement, cosmetics, energy, entertainment, land development, lawn and garden, marine, petrochemical, printing and publishing and transportation) on regulatory, judicial and legislative matters. He has designed several market-based programs, including the South Coast Regional Clean Air Incentives Market (RECLAIM), the clean air investment fund (contained in President Clinton's Directive to EPA regarding the new ozone and fine particulate standards) and EPA's clean air communities program. He has advised clients on a variety of other emissions trading programs, including the California Air Resources Board's low emissions vehicle regulation and federal and state versions of the Clean Air Act new source review (NSR) program.
Mr. Wyman's litigation practice includes the civil and criminal defense of government enforcement actions, the defense of citizen suits (e.g., under the Clean Air Act, CEQA and Proposition 65), and the direct review of administrative agency actions in federal and state courts. In the summer of 2006, he successfully defended a $1 billion power plant against a citizen suit in US District Court in Los Angeles.
He regularly represents industry clients before federal, state and local regulatory agencies on a variety of matters, including permitting, variances and agency rulemaking activities. He has successfully argued more than 200 evidentiary hearings before such agencies. He also serves on advisory committees for the South Coast Air Quality Management District.
Mr. Wyman currently represents the National Climate Coalition on EPA's advance notice of proposed rulemaking related to the regulation of greenhouse gases under the federal Clean Air Act. He represents the California Climate Coalition on implementation issues related to the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Assembly Bill 32). He also advises clients regarding greenhouse gas issues arising under the Kyoto Protocol, emerging US state and regional climate programs and shareholder disclosure issues related to climate risks. Mr. Wyman has represented clients before Congress, the White House, the EPA, DOE and DOT regarding federal legislation, including the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments and subsequent amendments to the Clean Air Act as well as on various air quality-related provisions of transportation and energy legislation. Mr. Wyman has testified on several occasions before Congress on air quality issues and provided Congressional staff briefings on a variety of air quality and energy topics, including the subject of climate change.
Mr. Wyman is among the longest-serving members of the US EPA Clean Air Act Advisory Committee. He has chaired three of the Committee's subcommittees and work groups, including the Subcommittee on Market Incentives; the Subcommittee on Linking Energy, Land Use, Transportation and Air Quality; and the EPA Task Force on the employee trip reduction program. He currently serves as a member of EPA's Advanced Coal Technology Work Group. In addition to his advisory role to the US EPA, Mr. Wyman has worked with governments and stakeholders in Canada, France, Portugal, the Netherlands and Russia on emissions trading issues.
Mr. Wyman writes and speaks extensively. He headed a Latham & Watkins team that authored comprehensive treatises on the Clean Air Act for Mathew Bender's Environmental Law Practice Guide and for the American Bar Association. The former publication received the American Law Publishers Award as the "Best Law Book" in 1992. Mr. Wyman has also authored articles and chapters on a variety of topics, including hazardous waste remediation and transportation, corporate criminal liability and strategies for reducing air pollution and addressing global climate change.
Mr. Wyman serves on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce; the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA), Southern California Chapter; the Pasadena Conservatory of Music; and Tennis America. He also serves on the Advisory Board for the Edward J. Blakely Center for Sustainable Suburban Development at UC Riverside. He is a former Director of the Environmental Law Institute (ELI). He and his wife, Dr. Lisa Krueger, are founders of the Yes, Virginia Fund, a charitable organization that provides gifts to needy children at holiday times. He is a Regional Chairman of the Princeton University Alumni Schools Committee. He is also active in the Southern California Tennis Association, for which his children have played competitive tennis in the USTA juniors program. He has coached YMCA basketball and refereed AYSO soccer.
In 2010, Mr. Wyman was selected as one of the decade’s most influential lawyers by The National Law Journal, a listing included in the publication’s annual “Most Influential Lawyers” special report. Mr. Wyman is regularly included in lists of prominent lawyers by such publications as the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Business Journal (Top 50 Lawyers in LA), the California Lawyer (California's Environmental Law Dream Team), Lawdragon (Top 500 Lawyers in the US), PLC Which Lawyer and Euromoney (Best International Environmental Lawyers). He has been ranked as the top California environmental attorney in each of the 2004-09 Chambers USA rankings. In 2008, Chambers USA identified Mr. Wyman as one of the leading national climate change practitioners in its first national ranking in this category. The 2009 Legal 500 US guide has ranked Mr. Wyman as a leading attorney in the National category for Environmental Litigation. In addition, he was named among a select group of national environmental attorneys in Ethisphere's list of "2009 Attorneys Who Matter." Mr. Wyman was also elected to the first class of the American College of Environmental Lawyers.