Megan Hunter

Supervising Senior Attorney Fossil Fuels Program

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Megan Hunter is a supervising senior attorney based in Chicago. Her work is focused on challenging new oil, gas, and petrochemical buildout in the Appalachian Ohio River Valley.

Before joining Earthjustice, Megan was staff attorney and outreach director at Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services and partner at her own firm, Hunter & Hunter LLC. In this capacity, she worked with communities in Ohio living with the ills of rapidly expanding oil and gas development, proposed petrochemical buildout, and legacy coal and steel mill pollution. She has represented individuals in defending their land and health from pipeline and well pad development, and she successfully litigated a Clean Water Act citizen suit that ended the practice of oil and gas produced water discharge to the Mahoning River. She has represented clients before Ohio’s Environmental Review Appeals Commission, Ohio’s Oil and Gas Commission, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, and Ohio’s appellate and common pleas courts.

Megan graduated magna cum laude from Vermont Law School, where she served as senior managing editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, and she holds a Master of Science in Applied Economics from Cornell University and Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Policy from Barnard College. Megan loves birding, adventuring, beautiful old buildings, excellent coffee, practicing yoga, and poetry.

The Latest from Megan Hunter

January 23, 2024

In the News: Energy News Network

Commission claims court can’t review decisions on drilling under Ohio park and wildlife areas

“Our courts play a critical role in overseeing agency decisions to make sure agencies do not abuse the discretion and power the law gives them. Our lawsuit asks that the court provide that critical oversight here.”
May 8, 2023

In the News: DeSmog

EPA Weighs Superfund Status for Ohio Facility Handling Radioactive Oilfield Waste

“It is truly a victory to have caught the agency’s attention and secured action, particularly when the source is a toxic substance that EPA has thus far been reluctant to regulate.”
November 6, 2021

In the News: WESA

Environmental groups sue to invalidate permits for ethane storage project in Ohio

“How do you protect these underground sources of drinking water if you haven’t even mapped where they’re located in the project area and examined potential migration pathways?”
October 29, 2021

In the News: The Allegheny Front

Environmental groups sue to invalidate permits for ethane storage project

“How do you protect these underground sources of drinking water if you haven’t even mapped where they’re located in the project area and examined potential migration pathways?”