Affie Ellis, office managing partner of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck’s Cheyenne office, has been selected as a member of the White House’s Carbon Dioxide Capture, Utilization and Sequestration (CCUS) Federal Lands and Outer Continental Shelf Permitting Task Force.
Ellis will work alongside her fellow task force members to provide recommendations to the federal government on how to ensure that CCUS projects are permitted in an efficient manner, reflect the input and needs of a wide range of stakeholders and deliver benefits rather than harms to local communities.
A respected advisor on federal Indian law and policy, Ellis is a member of the Navajo Nation and serves on the Navajo Nation Gaming Enterprises Board of Directors. Counseling clients on public lands and natural resources regulatory and administrative matters, she draws on her experience as assistant attorney general for the state of Wyoming where she litigated cases involving the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Endangered Species Act, National Forest Management Act and Federal Land Policy Management Act. Using her state and federal government sector experience, Ellis counsels clients on public land and natural resource regulatory and legislative matters, including permitting procedure, regulatory compliance and federal legislative and regulatory affairs.
To see the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s announcement about Ellis’ appointment, click here.