Dallas – Scott Deatherage has joined the Dallas office of law firm Patton Boggs LLP. Deatherage, a well known environmental attorney, joins as a partner from Thompson & Knight LLP where he led the firm’s climate change and renewable energy practice group.

At Patton Boggs, Deatherage plans to help corporate clients navigate a host of impending environmental regulations, climate change and greenhouse gas regulation, renewable energy and the carbon trading markets.

Selected as the Dallas Environmental Lawyer of the Year this year by The Best Lawyers in America, Deatherage’s practice includes permitting, compliance, administrative law and judicial litigation on a variety of environmental issues including, air emissions, wastewater discharges, hazardous waste, hazardous substances and toxic substances. He has extensive experience representing clients in federal and state courts as well as before local, state and federal environmental agencies.

He earned his law degree from Harvard Law School.