Jennifer Cave has over 20 years of experience working as an environmental consultant and attorney across the United States. As a member of the firm's Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy Service Group, she works closely with businesses to ensure compliance with local, state, and federal environmental laws and regulations. Ms. Cave advises clients on air quality, storm water, wastewater, and solid and hazardous waste permitting and compliance requirements and defends clients in administrative, civil, and criminal enforcement actions. Ms. Cave also regularly counsels equipment manufacturers on the importation and sale of mobile sources under the Clean Air Act and guides clients through transactions involving the purchase and sale of contaminated properties.
Recent News, Articles & Speaking Engagements
- Kentucky Becomes 38th State to Legalize the Use of Medical Cannabis, Stites & Harbison Client Alert, April 3, 2023
- Latest Trends in Inspections, Enforcement, and EJ, Speaker, 21st Annual Kentucky Environmental Conference, Lexington, KY, March 9-10, 2023
- Vapor Mitigation Case Study, co-speaker, 2022 Kentucky Commercial Real Estate Conference, October 18, 2022
- Beshear announces 17 members of Team Kentucky Medical Cannabis Advisory Committee, by staff writer, Northern Kentucky Tribune, June 15, 2022
- Gov. Beshear names members of Team Kentucky Medical Cannabis Advisory Committee, by staff reporter, The Lane Report, June 14, 2022
- Permitted Vices: Ordinary and Extraordinary Requirements for Expanding Industries, Panelist, Virtual SEER 28th Fall Conference: Webinar Series, American Bar Association, October 21, 2020
- 20 People to Know in Law, Louisville Business First, May 11, 2020
- Four Important Environmental Law Changes Since You’ve Been Home
- with W. Blaine Early III , William T. Gorton III , Robert C. Moore , Mary Lucille Noah (Mary Lu) , and W. Patrick Stallard, Stites & Harbison Client Alert, May 5, 2020
- Environmental Compliance Considerations for Kentucky Businesses in the Wake of COVID-19, Stites & Harbison Client Alert, March 31,2020
- EPA Suspends Enforcement Activities at Regulated Entities Impacted by COVID-19, Stites & Harbison Client Alert, March 27, 2020
- New and Emerging Issues: Chemical Regulatory Developments, U.S. EPA's Implementation of the Amended Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and Coping with California Proposition 65, 29th Annual Business & Industry's Sustainability & Environmental, Health and Safety Symposium, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 24-25, 2020
- Information You Need on the COVID-19 Coronavirus, Stites & Harbison, PLLC, March 2020
- Expansions and New Facilities - Permit Planning and Strategies to Stay on Track, 22nd Annual Kentucky Environmental Permitting and Reporting Conference, Kentucky Chamber, Lexington, KY, August 14-15, 2019
- Odors - Air Quality Issues Beyond the Four Corners of Your Permit, 22nd Annual Kentucky Environmental Permitting and Reporting Conference, Kentucky Chamber, Lexington, KY, August 14-15, 2019
- Best Practices to Avoid Environmental Enforcement in an U.S. EPA Era of Power Rebalance, 28th Annual Business & Industry's Sustainability & Environmental, Health and Safety Symposium, Cincinnati, OH, March 26, 2019
- Environmental Enforcement - What You Need to Know in 2019, 17th Annual Kentucky Environmental Conference, Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, Lexington, KY, March 14-15, 2019
- The X Factor . . . Pathways to Plant Security in the New Millennium, 27th Annual Business and Industry's Sustainability and Environmental, Health & Safety Symposium, Cincinnati, OH, March 27-28, 2018
- Caveat Emptor? Strategies to Avoid Environmental Enforcement in a New U.S. EPA Era, 27th Annual Business and Industry's Sustainability and Environmental, Health & Safety Symposium, Cincinnati, OH, March 27-28, 2018
- Developments in Federal and Kentucky Environmental Law, Engineering Law and Ethics, HalfMoon Seminars, Lexington, KY, January 18, 2018
- Greater Louisville, Inc., Environment and Energy Committee, Chair
- Greater Louisville, Inc., Public Policy Committee
- Team Kentucky Medical Cannabis Advisory Board (2022-present)
- Louisville Regional Science and Engineering Fair, Vice President of Legal & Business Affairs (2018-21)
- Kentucky Air and Waste Management Association, Board of Directors
- Louisville Air Pollution Control District Multi-Pollutant Stakeholder Group
- Women Environmental Leaders of Louisville (WELL), Co-Founder
- Leadership Louisville, Class of 2019
More Than Stites & Harbison
Ms. Cave joined the firm after working as an environmental consultant specializing in due diligence investigations and hazardous waste compliance in New England and the Pacific Northwest. In the past, Ms. Cave has served on the Board of Directors of the Lexington Humane Society, the Louisville Energy Alliance, and the KMAC Museum and the Steering Committee of Leadership Lexington. In 2017, she co-founded Women Environmental Leaders of Louisville (WELL), a networking group of over 100 women working in the environmental, health and safety, and sustainability fields in Louisville. Ms. Cave is an avid horsewoman who enjoys competing in the sport of eventing. She also assists her two rescue dogs, Mason and Malcolm, with managing the family farm in Shelby County.