Angela Morrison

Angela draws on over three decades of robust experience to assist clients with environmental permitting and compliance matters at federal, state, and local levels. Her thorough understanding of the Clean Air Act enables her to provide clients with practical advice in this complex area of environmental law. And though she focuses a large part of her practice on air quality and climate change, Angela has broad environmental experience and counsels clients on matters related to wetlands and navigable waters, water use, endangered species, land use, contaminant release reporting, risk assessment, remediation, and solid and hazardous waste. Her projects span diverse industry sectors including steel, cement, phosphate, chemical, food processing, agriculture, oil and gas, mining, automobile, boat, electric utilities, renewable fuel, recycling, and waste management. Angela has capitalized on her comprehensive knowledge and experience in these areas to help site and license new greenfield projects, including power plants, waste-to-energy and renewable energy facilities, and large commercial and residential developments.

With her focus on the Clean Air Act (CAA), Angela routinely advises clients on a variety of air-related issues, including applicability determinations and compliance matters related to New Source Performance Standards, National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants, the Good Neighbor Plan, and the regional haze program. She also defends her clients in enforcement matters and assists with notifications of contaminant releases. Significantly, Angela has worked on hundreds of New Source Review (NSR) and Title V air operating permits, as well as countless minor NSR permits and permit amendments for stationary sources being constructed, operated, expanded, or modified. More recently, her permitting work has included considerations of environmental justice and Title VI civil rights protections.

Given her extensive experience with implementation of the CAA, Angela has become an avid writer in this area, recently co-authoring a book published by the American Bar Association (ABA) titled Clean Air Act Essentials. She was also editor of the air quality chapter of the Environmental Law Institute’s Treatise on Environmental Law and co-author of the section on NSR. In addition, she is a frequent speaker on topics related to the CAA and climate change and recently co-chaired the December 2023 CAA conference held by the ABA’s Environment, Energy, and Resources Section.

In the context of climate change, Angela advises on the regulation and reduction of greenhouse gases, cap and trade programs, carbon dioxide emission standards, greenhouse reporting, and renewable energy projects.

Angela is Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Federal and State Government and Administrative Practice and is licensed to practice in both Florida and the District of Columbia.

• Named a Circle of Excellence Award winner for Environmental and Land Use, Miami-Dade Bar, 2024
• Recognized as a Best Lawyer, Environmental Law, The Best Lawyers in America, 2018-2024
• Selected as a Super Lawyer, Environmental Law, Florida Super Lawyers Magazine, 2019-2023
• Peer Review Rated AV Preeminent, Martindale-Hubbell, 2021-2025
• Named as a Legal Elite, Environmental Law, Florida Trend, 2018
• Recognized as an Honored Listee, Marquis Who’s Who, 2023
• Section Chair’s Award for Outstanding Contribution, American Bar Association, Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, 2017-2018
• Gold Star Speaker’s Award (for 26 years of excellence in professional environmental education), Alabama Section and Coastal Plains Chapter, Air and Waste Management Association, 2015
• Outstanding Alumnus Award, Law Review, Oklahoma City University School of Law, 2010

• American Bar Association, Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources
  • Co-Chair, Clean Air Act Conference, 2023
  • Book Publishing Board, 2021-2023
  • Council Member, 2015-2018
  • Section Chair’s Award for Outstanding Contribution, 2017-2018
  • Trends Newsletter Editor in Chief, Board Member, 2009-2015
  • Fall Conference Planning Committee Chair, Co-Chair, Vice Chair, 2008, 2011-2012, 2014
  • Air Quality Committee Chair, Co-Chair, Vice Chair, 2005-2012
• The Florida Bar
  • State & Federal Government & Administrative Practice Certification Committee, 2020-2023
  • Grievance Committee, Second Circuit, 2021-2023
• Administrative Law Section of The Florida Bar
  • State & Federal Government & Administrative Practice Committee, 2018-2023
  • Continuing Legal Education Committee, 2018-2021
• Environmental and Land Use Law Section of The Florida Bar
  • Executive Council, 2019-2022
  • Continuing Legal Education Committee, 2019-2021
• Air and Waste Management Association
  • Coastal Plains Chapter, 1991-2018
  • Northeast Chapter Conference Chair, 2014
  • Florida Section Director, 2012-2013
  • Florida Section Conference Co-Chair, 2013
• Member, Florida Association of Environmental Professionals
• Member, Tallahassee Area Association of Environmental Professionals
• Florida Bar Foundation Fellow
• American Bar Foundation Life Fellow
• Member, Miami-Dade County Bar Association

• Cherokee Nation, Tribal Citizen
• Leadership Tallahassee, Class XIX
• Kids Voting Leon County, Past Chair
• Tallahassee Film Society, Volunteer Attorney
• Equality Florida Volunteer
• Friends of Rish Park Advocate
• Advocate for civil rights and antidiscrimination based on disabilities, sexual orientation, and gender