Kate E. Konschnik

Kate Konschnik is the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. Kate spent the first seven years of her legal career at ENRD, as an Honors Attorney in the Environmental Enforcement Section. Kate litigated civil enforcement cases on behalf of EPA Regions 4 (Southeast) and 9 (Pacific Southwest), with a focus on the Clean Air Act as a member of the New Source Review Enforcement Initiative team.

Kate subsequently served as Chief Environmental Counsel to Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and managed his Oversight Subcommittee on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Kate then left government service to become the first Executive Director of what is now the Harvard Law School Environmental and Energy Law Program. Most recently, Kate was Climate and Energy Director at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University. Kate has also taught environmental and energy law courses at Harvard Law School and Duke Law School. For three months in 2019-2020, Kate pursued a research detail at the International Energy Agency in Paris, France.

Kate is a graduate of Tufts University and University of California, Hastings College of the Law.