Joshua Verleun

Joshua Verleun joined Riverkeeper in September 2007 and works as an investigator and staff attorney focused on enforcement. Mr. Verleun’s work involves investigating citizen pollution complaints and reports from Riverkeeper’s patrol boat; building enforcement cases under federal environmental statutes; and coordinating Riverkeeper’s citizen “watchdog” program and Hudson River Fisheries Campaign. He also serves as Riverkeeper’s representative to the New York Harbor joint law enforcement taskforce and coordinates Riverkeeper’s partnerships with other law enforcement agencies. Mr. Verleun received his B.S. from James Madison University and his J.D, and Environmental Law Certificate, cum laude, from Pace University School of Law, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Pace Environmental Law Review, a Vice-Chair of the National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition, a Center for Environmental Legal Studies Merit Scholar, and organizer of a regional summit on climate change for the National Association of Environmental Law Societies. During law school he interned with the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC, the US Attorney’s Office in Manhattan, and the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic.