Brandon Tuck

Practice Areas

Brandon’s practice focuses on environmental and natural resources law, with an emphasis on project development, enforcement defense, and environmental litigation.

Brandon advises clients on obtaining and defending permits and authorizations for a variety of energy, manufacturing, and development projects, including upstream and midstream oil and gas projects (both gas and liquid), energy export projects, transportation and marine terminal projects, commercial development and infrastructure, and single- and multi-family residential development. These approvals are from agencies such as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, with underlying statutes including the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act (ESA), National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), and other federal and state natural resource statutes.

Before law school, Brandon worked in natural resource planning for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in the Department of the Interior, where he focused on water resource management to support hydropower generation and irrigation projects. He authored NEPA and ESA documents integral to new projects, as well as ongoing operations of existing projects. Brandon also completed a multi-year detail as an interagency coordinator for four federal defendant agencies in ESA litigation over the effects on endangered salmon from hydropower operations and reservoir management in the Columbia and Snake Rivers in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana.

Additionally, Brandon is fluent in American Sign Language (ASL), has been a certified professional sign language interpreter for over twenty-five years, and is active in the deaf community.

Personal

University of Pennsylvania, J.D. cum laude, 2010 (Comments Editor, University of Pennsylvania Law Review; Certificate in Environmental Policy from the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute of Environmental Studies)

Boise State University, B.A. summa cum laude, 1999