Brenden K. Catt
- Associate
I help clients navigate environmental matters involving permitting, regulatory compliance, and property remediation and redevelopment. Drawing on my experience representing state and local governments, I understand how regulators approach complex environmental issues and use that perspective to counsel clients on practical solutions that keep projects and operations moving forward.
Brenden Catt is an associate in Warner’s Resources, Energy and Environmental Law Practice Group. Before joining the firm, he served as an assistant attorney general in the Environment Section of the Utah Attorney General’s Office, where he handled permitting, compliance, and cleanup matters involving the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund), Clean Water Act, and state equivalents. He also represented the Utah Department of Environmental Quality before administrative and judicial tribunals, litigating permit appeals and enforcing the state’s waste management, waste tire, used oil, petroleum storage tank, and corrective action statutes and regulations.
Before representing the Utah Department of Environmental Quality, Brenden worked as an attorney for the City of Bend, Oregon. In that role, his real estate experience included conducting title and environmental due diligence and negotiating leases, utility easements, and purchase and sale agreements. He leveraged that experience in his land use practice where he defended land use decisions before administrative bodies and the Oregon Court of Appeals.
Brenden earned his law degree from the University of Oregon School of Law, where he clerked for Magistrate Judge Mark D. Clarke for the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon and served as managing editor of the Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in environmental science with a minor in geology from the University of Oregon. His legal and scientific background helps him understand the technical considerations that often shape environmental and natural resources matters.
