About the Environmental Appeals Board (EAB)

What We Do

The Environmental Appeals Board (“EAB” or “the Board”) is an impartial appellate tribunal established by regulation to hear administrative appeals under the major environmental statutes that EPA administers.  The EPA Administrator has delegated to the Board the authority to hear these appeals.  The Board is independent of all Agency components outside the immediate office of the Office of the Administrator.  The Board’s caseload consists primarily of appeals from federal permitting decisions and administrative civil penalty decisions as well as petitions for reimbursement of costs incurred in complying with cleanup orders issued under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act.  The Board’s Environmental Appeals Judges generally sit in panels of three, and a panel decides a matter by majority vote.  Please see “Guide to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Appeals Board,” available on the Board’s website, for additional information about the Board.

Mail code: 1103M | EPA mailing addresses
Location: EPA East, EPA Headquarters
Phone: 202-233-0122

EAB Organization

• Lead Judge Mary Kay Lynch.
  • Biography.
  • Email: lynch.mary-kay@epa.gov.
• Judge Aaron P. Avila.
  • Biography.
  • Email: avila.aaron@epa.gov.
• Judge Wendy L. Blake.
  • Biography.
  • Email: Blake.Wendy@epa.gov.
• Judge Ammie Roseman-Orr.
  • Biography.
  • Email: roseman-orr.ammie@epa.gov.