A shareholder in the Environmental, Health and Safety and Natural Resources Groups of Babst Calland, Kevin Garber is an attorney who specializes in natural resources law and water law. He leads the firm’s municipal environmental services practice area, which concentrates on sewage facilities planning and permitting, storm water management, and related development issues facing developers, municipalities and municipal authorities. Kevin graduated with Distinction from The Pennsylvania State University with a B.S. in Biology/Chemistry, an M.S. in Oceanography and Limnology from the University of Wisconsin, his Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of Pittsburgh and his law degree from the Duquesne University School of Law. His graduate and doctoral work researched point and non-point source pollutant loadings to lakes and the development of remedial alternatives. He is a past Chairman of the Environmental Section of the Allegheny County Bar Association, serves on the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council and the Local Government Academy, and has been ranked among Pennsylvania’s top environmental lawyers in Chambers USA’s America’s Leading Business Lawyers and in Best Lawyers in America since 2004. He teaches environmental law, litigation and forensics courses at Duquesne University, where he also serves on the Advisory Committee for the University’s Center for Environmental Research and Education.

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