Todd L. Normane
Center Moriches
Summary
Strategic and visionary executive with a proven track record of leadership in legal, sustainability and compliance disciplines. Adept at integrating transformative sustainable practices into core business functions, from the boardroom to the front lines. Renowned for positioning companies for energy transitions by developing pragmatic sustainability strategies, ensuring robust environmental compliance, and fostering a culture of excellence and governance. Extensive experience in navigating the legal, regulatory, and stakeholder complexities of large-scale infrastructure projects, delivering comprehensive solutions to critical business challenges.
Overview
34
34
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Founder & President
TLN Sustainable Solutions LLC
01.2024 - Current
- Consultancy dedicated to navigating the intersection of complex regulatory permitting, environmental compliance, and sustainability, focusing on achieving strategic business objectives, enhancing stakeholder engagements, and helping companies to meet the challenges of a lower carbon world.
- Developed strong partnerships with other businesses to allow for collaboration and more significant opportunities for growth.
- Established a successful business by identifying market needs and developing innovative solutions.
Senior Vice President, Chief Sustainability Officer – Environmental & Sustainability Deputy General Counsel, Environmental & Regulatory Affairs
Equitrans Midstream Corporation
01.2018 - 01.2024
- Company Overview: $4.5B natural gas midstream company with 773 employees
- Promoted continuously to play a pivotal and forward-thinking role in steering the organization toward sustainable growth while ensuring full compliance with environmental laws and regulations including the successful authorization of the $7B+ Mountain Valley Pipeline project. Led strategic integration of sustainability best practices, environmental stewardship, supply chain controls, and corporate governance across all levels and tracks performance metrics to evaluate progress. Mitigated risks and served as company representative with regulatory bodies, community organizations, and other stakeholders. Championed innovation and new technologies to reduce environmental impact.
- As the Company’s most senior executive with direct accountability for Environmental & Sustainability matters, led a team of 36 employees responsible for all aspects of strategy, planning, compliance, risk management, reporting, and assurance.
- Secured critical federal and state authorizations for the $7B+ Mountain Valley Pipeline project's construction through a complex regulatory and litigation strategy including successful appeals to the United States Supreme Court, inclusion of legislative provisions in the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, and engagement with government stakeholders at multiple levels, effectively advocating for the project while ensuring adherence to legal and regulatory frameworks.
- Instituted a streamlined approach for risk analysis and resolution of high-stakes environmental and legal challenges by reorganizing environmental/legal teams to increase collaboration and problem-solving.
- Championed organization-wide initiatives to advance critical ESG-Social aspects, including Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Justice, and Safety, and re-engineered cross-functional team structures to embed sustainability priorities within organizational protocols and strategies.
- Directed board governance over sustainability and environmental programs, delivering key strategic insights and performance updates through quarterly board presentations.
- Served as Equitrans’ representative board member for key industry associations, including the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America.
- Participated in various leadership roles in company committees including the Equitrans Foundation, Enterprise Risk, and Executive Environmental & Safety.
- Delivered exceptional customer service by implementing best practices and fostering a culture of accountability within the organization.
- Collaborated with executive leadership team members on long-term strategic planning that ensured sustainable success for the company.
- Championed innovation by encouraging cross-functional teams to pursue creative solutions to complex challenges.
Chair – Energy & Environment Practice, Director
Cohen & Grigsby, P.C.
01.2016 - 01.2018
- Recruited to launch Energy and Environment Practice. Provided legal services involving areas of environmental, regulatory compliance, corporate transactions, litigation, OSHA investigations, and mineral rights interactions.
Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Affairs and Corporate Secretary
Talisman Energy USA Inc.
01.2010 - 01.2016
- Company Overview: (Acquired by Repsol S.A in 2015, HQ Madrid, Spain), Warrendale, PA 2010 – 2016 Canada’s largest independent oil and gas producer valued at $8.3B at the time of acquisition
- Served as U.S. Chief Legal Officer and directed Legal and Corporate Affairs functions encompassing Commercial, Litigation, HR, Environmental Affairs, and more, while also fulfilling the role of U.S. Chief Compliance Officer.
- Executive responsible for Legal and Corporate Affairs functions, which included Commercial/Supply Chain, Corporate Governance, Litigation, Human Resources, Environmental, Stakeholder and Community Relations, Government and Regulatory Affairs, Corporate Communications, Security, and served as U.S. Chief Compliance Officer.
- Member of the executive management team establishing strategic capital investment, annual goals, business unit metrics, and company priorities.
- Developed company public disclosures regarding risks arising from the process of hydrofracturing including environmental, natural resources, and health impacts.
- As U.S. Chief Compliance Officer, designed a comprehensive compliance/auditing program to encompass all U.S. operations and provide policy guidance and training on antitrust, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, director and officer liability, harassment, discrimination, and other ethics-related matters.
Head of BP Legal West Coast Office, Senior Attorney
BP America Inc.
01.2000 - 01.2010
- Advanced in level of responsibility from staff attorney to Head of Office directing all operations for the BP West Coast Legal Office of BP America Inc., a subsidiary of BP p.l.c. with 23 lawyers, paralegals, and administrative staff. Oversaw staff resource and support issues, office reconstruction, emergency and safety planning, employee severance plans, annual office budget, and compliance with corporate governance policies. Evaluated and mitigated risk to business operations, conducted internal investigations, developed risk avoidance and data retention policies, and managed annual external legal expense budget of $4M+.
- Served as commercial/transactional attorney for Carson Refinery, a business division of $2B+ assets. Sites located in Los Angeles, California, including crude oil refinery, marine terminals, chemical and gas processing works, pipelines and terminals and industrial coke operations.
- Responsible for complex litigation and claims portfolio including class action and toxic tort litigation, complex commercial and antitrust claims, employee wage and hour disputes, common contract and tort actions, and related alternative dispute resolution matters.
Associate Environmental Litigation
Maraziti, Falcon & Healey
01.1996 - 01.2000
Attorney
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
01.1991 - 01.1996
Education
Juris Doctor -
Vermont Law School
South Royalton, VTMaster of Studies in Environmental Law - undefined
Vermont Law School
South Royalton, VTBachelor of Arts - Political Science
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJSkills
- Strategic Planning Sustainability Reporting Project Finance & Operations
- Commercial Transactions & Supply Chain ESG Compliance Board-Level Governance
- Complex Environmental Permitting/Litigation Stakeholder Engagement
- Legal & Regulatory Compliance Risk Management Workforce Policy/Engagement
- Legal Writing & Document Drafting Data-Driven Materiality Analysis
- Strategic thinking
- Entrepreneurial and innovative
- Team leadership
- Strategic vision
Certification
- Bar Admissions Pennsylvania - New Jersey - California
- National Association of Corporate Directors NACD.DC (2024)
Accomplishments
- Built Equitrans’ first integrated sustainability program, strategy, and vision to address ESG objectives, engage with external stakeholders, and drive a culture focused on stewardship and energy transition.
- Developed and executed legal and regulatory strategy to revive a $7B+ pipeline project by obtaining the required governmental and judicial approvals necessary to complete construction in 2024.
- Negotiated settlement with key non-governmental organizations publicly adverse to the Mountain Valley Pipeline achieving a significant land conservation and community development agreement and a resolution with indigenous communities addressing potential cultural and environmental impacts.
- Pioneered strategies to slash methane emissions by 50% by 2030, setting the groundwork for a net zero carbon footprint by 2050.
- Significantly elevated Equitrans’ ESG ratings within a two-year timeframe by building a new internal framework for ESG reporting designed to meet SOX-level disclosures and support a proactive engagement of ESG stakeholders including institutional investors, CDP, S&P Global, ISS, Sustainalytics, MSCI, Bloomberg and Blackrock.
- Managed Board-level governance of sustainability program through the Board and Health, Safety and Environment, Audit and Governance Board Committees with quarterly presentations and reports on sustainability program, strategy development, and achievements.
Timeline
Founder & President
TLN Sustainable Solutions LLC
01.2024 - Current
Senior Vice President, Chief Sustainability Officer – Environmental & Sustainability Deputy General Counsel, Environmental & Regulatory Affairs
Equitrans Midstream Corporation
01.2018 - 01.2024
Chair – Energy & Environment Practice, Director
Cohen & Grigsby, P.C.
01.2016 - 01.2018
Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Affairs and Corporate Secretary
Talisman Energy USA Inc.
01.2010 - 01.2016
Head of BP Legal West Coast Office, Senior Attorney
BP America Inc.
01.2000 - 01.2010
Associate Environmental Litigation
Maraziti, Falcon & Healey
01.1996 - 01.2000
Attorney
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
01.1991 - 01.1996
Master of Studies in Environmental Law - undefined
Vermont Law School
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science
Rutgers University
Juris Doctor -
Vermont Law School
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