Lynn L. Bergeson and Carla N. Hutton Chosen as Top Authors by JD Supra Readers

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C^®) is pleased to announce that Managing Partner Lynn L. Bergeson and Regulatory Analyst Carla N. Hutton have been recognized in the 2023 JD Supra Readers Choice Awards as top authors in the Environment section. This is Ms. Bergeson’s seventh Readers Choice award, which recognizes the most-read and -shared articles posted on JD Supra, a legal news service, and Ms. Hutton’s first. B&C’s monthly “Wrap-Up of Federal and State Chemical Regulatory Developments” is always widely read and shared. Other popular articles from the past year include “House Committee Holds Hearing on Bioenergy RD&D for the Fuels and Chemicals of Tomorrow” and “Canadian Government Introduces Bill Intended to Modernize CEPA.”
 
Ms. Bergeson counsels corporations, trade associations, and business consortia on a wide range of issues pertaining to chemical hazard, exposure and risk assessment, risk communication, and evolving regulatory, policy, and business matters. She served as chair of the American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, and has served in many Section leadership positions. She is Chair of the International Bar Association (IBA) Agriculture and Food Section, is Immediate Past President of the Product Stewardship Society (PSS), and is a Regent and on the Executive Committee of the American College of Environmental Lawyers (ACOEL). Ms. Bergeson is also President of The Acta Group (Acta^®), B&C’s scientific and regulatory consulting arm with offices in Washington, D.C., the United Kingdom, Brussels, and China, and President of B&C^® Consortia Management, L.L.C. (BCCM), which helps the chemical industry form consortia to achieve shared research, testing, and regulatory goals.
 
Ms. Hutton regularly authors reports and assessments of regulatory and legislative developments for B&C clients. She was a contributing author of the book New TSCA: A Guide to the Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act and Its Implementation, American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources (2017). Her writing has also appeared in Chemical Watch, BNA Daily Environment Report, and Nanotechnology Now.
 
B&C is a Washington, D.C., firm concentrating on conventional, nanoscale, and biobased industrial, agricultural, and specialty chemical product regulation and approval matters, including Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) matters, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)/Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) matters, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) food contact and product approval, registration and data compensation arbitrations, chemical product litigation, and associated business counseling and litigation issues.