587 Showers Street
Harrisburg PA 17104
717-238-3027
fax 717-238-8033
billcluck@billcluck.com
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William J. Cluck is an environmental, energy and land use attorney based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Bill has an interesting and diverse law practice, concentrating on environmental, energy and land use law. He represents members of the regulated community in all aspects of environmental law, including permitting, defense of administrative, civil and criminal enforcement actions, transactional matters, and regulatory counseling. He has negotiated environmental permits for graphic arts companies, chemical manufacturing companies, an electric utility, landfills, a pollution control device manufacturer, steel tube manufacturer, and a waste tire processor. Bill has represented landowners analyzing mineral rights and negotiating oil and gas leases in the Marcellus Shale. His litigation experience includes serving as one of the court-appointed liaison counsel for a large number of small businesses in the Keystone Sanitation Superfund Litigation. Bill's efforts were instrumental in securing both a de micromis and de minimis settlement for his clients and members of the group. He represents clients before the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board, Pennsylvania State courts and he is admitted in the Eastern, Middle and Western District Federal Courts of Pennsylvania. Bill also represents citizen groups in zoning and land development matters.
Bill began his legal career as a summer associate in 1987 in the Philadelphia office of Saul Ewing. In 1991, he relocated to Harrisburg and was the first associate in Saul Ewing's Harrisburg office. He was named Special Counsel in 1999 and started his solo practice in July 2000.
Bill serves on the Board of Directors of the Harrisburg Authority. He is serving a three-year term as one of the 15 Council members of the Environmental and Energy Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association. He was a member of the 2010 Leadership Class of the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the MS Society. From 2003 to 2008, Mr. Cluck served as a citizen representative on the Dauphin County Solid Waste Advisory Committee. Bill's settlement agreement in litigation involving the Dauphin County Solid Waste Management Plan and the Harrisburg incinerator resulted in the establishment of Harrisburg's Environmental Advisory Committee and was nominated by City Council to serve a one of the initial members. He co-chairs the Advocacy and Resource Development Board of the Pennsylvania Small Business Development Centers and was instrumental in obtaining initial state funding for the SBDC's award-winning Environmental Management Assistance Program Bill chairs the Harrisburg Regional Chamber's Environmental and Energy Committee. Mr. Cluck is the Pennsylvania representative on the State Law Advisory Committee for BNA's Environmental Due Diligence Guide.
Mr. Cluck was a Barrister in the Delaware Valley Environmental American Inn of Court from 1999 to 2004. Bill is a member of the Philadelphia Bar Association, and in 1994, served as co-chair of its Environmental Law Committee. In 1996, he co-chaired the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry's Air Issues Group. Bill was also a member of the American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy and Resources Law from 1988 to 2004, and the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Environmental and Energy Law Section.
In December 2003, Mr. Cluck served as program co-chair for the ABA Key Environmental Issues in EPA Region 3. In February and April 2004, he served as a panelist on contract issues arising under PaDEP's Clean Fill Policy for PAPA. Bill has lectured frequently for many organizations, including the Pennsylvania Bar Institute on such topics as ethics for public interest lawyers, what engineers need to know about environmental law, brownfields redevelopment, basic air law, Title V permits, DEP's new enforcement authority, what real estate and business lawyers should know about environmental law, environmental audits, waste regulations, evidentiary issues associated with electronic reporting of environmental data and how to respond to an environmental emergency. Bill authored the revised chapter on A Practical Guide to the Internet for the Fifth and Sixth Editions of PBI's Pennsylvania Environmental Law and Practice.
Bill received his B.A. degree from Penn State in 1982. While at Penn State, Bill was president of the undergraduate student government. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Penn State Skull and Bones Alumni Interest Group, has served on the Board of Directors of the Mount Nittany Conservancy and is a past president of the Lions Paw Alumni Association. Mr. Cluck earned his J.D., cum laude, in 1988 from Temple Law School. While in law school, Bill was executive editor of Temple Environmental Law and Technology Journal. He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania.
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