Kayla Race

Kayla assists clients in a variety of industries with their environmental, energy, natural resources, land use, and sustainability matters. This includes helping energy and natural resources clients, among others, navigate compliance with state and federal environmental regulations and permitting, electric utility laws, land use policies, environmental and climate disclosure requirements, carbon offsets standards, and mineral exploration rules. Kayla also advises on contractual matters, environmental due diligence, issues involving split-estates (separate mineral and surface ownership), eminent domain issues, and other project development needs.

Kayla’s career as an attorney is aided by her experience shaping municipal and state climate, energy, and environmental justice policy in her work prior to law school for community-based environmental non-profit organizations in southern California and for the Massachusetts House of Representatives Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change. In particular, Kayla draws from her experience advising the City of San Diego on the development of its Climate Action Plan as a member (appointed by the City Council) of the City’s Economic and Environmental Sustainability Task Force. She also served as a member of the Regional Energy Working Group for the San Diego Association of Governments and participated in the Port of San Diego’s climate committee and environmental advisory committee. Kayla also represented an environmental justice non-profit in intervening in California Public Utilities Commission proceedings.

Kayla’s law practice is further benefitted by her experiences during law school as an intern for the U.S. Department of Interior’s Office of the Solicitor and for the Salt Lake City Attorney’s Office, as a law student clerk for a national non-profit environmental law organization and for a local law firm, and as research fellow for the University of Utah’s Stegner Center for Land, Resources, and the Environment.