A 25-year veteran of the Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division has joined a nonprofit that is staffing up to push back against President Donald Trump’s efforts to roll back environmental protections.
Brian Lynk, a former senior trial counsel with the environmental defense section, has joined the Environmental Law & Policy Center, a Midwestern environmental advocacy group that has sued EPA over water pollution in Lake Erie and is working to shut down coal plants.
Lynk, who joined in April as a senior attorney focusing on federal litigation at the trial and appellate levels, will work in the group’s Washington office.
His departure comes as the administration has sought to remake and reduce the environmental division that defends and enforces the nation’s environmental laws. Two other lawyers in the division recently left for private practice.
