Scott Deatherage

Scott Deatherage is a partner in the Environmental Law Practice Group at Thompson & Knight, L.L.P. in Dallas, Texas, and the head of the Firm's Climate Change and Renewable Energy Practice Group. He received his law degree, cum laude, in 1987 from Harvard Law School.

As head of the Firm’s Climate Change and Renewable Energy Practice Group, Deatherage advises clients on climate change, greenhouse gas legislation, and corporate strategy for managing risks and leveraging opportunities in carbon markets and transactions. He advises clients on developing carbon credit projects and carbon business ventures. One of his areas of expertise involves fuel switching and avoided deforestation or REDD projects, in Latin America in particular.

His practice includes permitting, compliance counseling and auditing, and administrative and judicial litigation in air, water, hazardous waste, and toxic substance matters before local and state environmental agencies, the EPA, and state and federal courts. He advises clients in environmental due diligence in corporate, real estate, oil and gas, and lending transactions. His practice further extends to adivising clients on environmental corporate governance, environmental financial disclosure, and environmental management.