Victor Zertuche

Senior Attorney

Northwest Office

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TX, WA, D.C. (inactive)

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he / him

Victor Zertuche

Senior Attorney Northwest Office

Elizabeth Manning
Public Affairs and Communications Strategist
emanning@earthjustice.org

Victor is a senior attorney in the Northwest Office whose practice focuses largely on clean energy and transportation issues.

Before joining Earthjustice, Victor worked for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington D.C., as an attorney-advisor in EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, where he focused on cleanup and hazardous waste enforcement under CERCLA and RCRA. He worked on PFAS enforcement and site remediation policies. Victor has been an advocate within and outside of EPA for environmental justice and clean energy principles.

Victor graduated from the University of Houston Law Center and received an LLM in Energy and Environmental Law (Concentration in Climate Change) from Pace University.

Prior to working for EPA, Victor spent a year at Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas in Dallas.

Expert Posts & Articles

Two people on the roof of a home install solar panels.
July 23, 2026

Washington’s Largest Utility Can Help Meet Washington’s Clean Energy Goals

Public interest groups are pushing for a healthier future powered by renewables by intervening in a utility rate proceeding.
Semi trucks drive through stacks of metal containers in a busy shipping port. Large cranes for removing containers from ships are in the background.
July 22, 2026

Click, Click, Pollute. Washington Started the E-Commerce Boom – Now It Can Fix its Pollution

Adopting e-commerce pollution controls in Washington is a commonsense solution.

Elizabeth Manning
Public Affairs and Communications Strategist
emanning@earthjustice.org

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TX, WA, D.C. (inactive)

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Quoted in the News

September 28, 2026

KUOW

Puget Sound Energy seeks $1.5B rate increase

“There are cheaper and cleaner alternatives that are available to the company.”
August 5, 2026

MSN

Washington groups challenge energy rate hikes, call for cleaner energy

"A big investment costing at least $600 million in Centralia to convert a coal-fired plant to a gas plant that would, over 17 years, cost ratepayers an extreme amount of money."