Are you looking for job satisfaction and want to make a difference? Do you want to challenge yourself and work to protect the environment and precious natural resources
of California? Then come work with like-minded legal professionals and join the Environment Section at the California Department of Justice - Office of the Attorney
General. Our attorneys face some of the most challenging, cutting-edge legal issues in the environmental field. As such, we are seeking exceptional, motivated candidates for multiple vacancies in our section.
The Environment Section handles a broad range of significant environmental matters on behalf of the Attorney General and the State of California. Assignments may
include: conducting environmental litigation through all phases of state and federal courts; representation of the Attorney General in his independent capacity, pursuant to
his statutory and common law authority to protect the environment; representation of state agencies, including, but not limited to, the Department of Toxic Substances
Control and the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment; initiating environmental investigations; prosecution of environmental crimes on behalf of the People; close coordination with District Attorneys, including joint prosecutions of both civil and criminal environmental cases; and providing legal advice on an ongoing basis to client agencies and to the Attorney General.
Section members enforce a broad variety of state and federal environmental laws, such as the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
(Superfund), the Hazardous Waste Control Law, Proposition 65 (the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act), the National Environmental Policy Act, the California
Environmental Quality Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the Unfair Competition Law.