Melissa Malstrom is an associate in the firm’s Portland office. She focuses her practice on renewable energy and infrastructure projects, with an emphasis on solar, wind, offshore, energy storage, and carbon offsets and removal. Melissa advises clients on the preparation and negotiation of power purchase and sales agreements, infrastructure development, renewable energy credit and certificate transactions, and carbon emissions reduction and offset transactions. Her experience extends to environmental compliance counseling and enforcement action defense. Melissa assists clients in navigating complex regulatory and permitting issues at the federal and state level, including water, air, species, and hazardous waste issues, as well as compliance with remediation and cleanup orders. She also represents clients in related litigation and administrative proceedings.