Brenda Gotanda is a partner with Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox LLP and has extensive experience representing clients in environmental regulatory compliance, enforcement and transactional matters. For over 30 years, clients have relied on her to provide strategic guidance in managing risks, responding to challenges, engaging with regulators, and achieving their goals. Brenda represents and counsels clients in a variety of businesses on environmental and energy matters, including regulatory compliance, permitting, enforcement actions, transactions, site remediation, and project development.
Brenda has handled complex issues related to the regulation of water, waste, air, and chemical substances for a broad range of clients, including in the manufacturing, real estate, energy, industrial development, telecommunications, transportation, waste management and retail sectors. Her practice includes significant matters involving wastewater and stormwater NPDES permitting and enforcement, TMDL development and implementation, hazardous and non-hazardous waste, PFAS, real estate transactions and due diligence, spill prevention and emergency response, Superfund, redevelopment of brownfields and former defense sites, and occupational safety and health. In addition, she has guided clients though complex and evolving issues related to sustainability, greenhouse gas emissions and lifecycle analysis, renewable energy, battery energy storage, energy efficiency, renewable fuels, green building, and green marketing claims.
Brenda serves on the Board of Directors of the Water Resources Association of the Delaware River Basin. She is a past Chair and Board member of the Environmental, Energy & Resources Section of the Hawaii State Bar Association and a past Co-Chair of the Environmental Law Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association. She has served on the Board of Directors for the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, ThinkTech, Hawaii, Shofuso Japanese House and Garden in Philadelphia, and the Delaware Valley Green Building Council. She is a co-founder and Director Emeritus of the Society of Women Environmental Professionals of Greater Philadelphia and has also served as Chair of the Radnor Township Environmental Advisory Council.
